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Ipswich - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 290 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 166 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Ipswich for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 38 hours
Feb - 32 hours
Mar - 9 hours
Apr - 11 hours
May - 14 hours
Jun - 21 hours
Jul - 32 hours
Aug - 4 hours
Sept - 36 hours
Oct - 65 hours , 0 potential
Nov - 20 hours
Dec - 2 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Anglian Water IPSWICH-WHERSTEAD RD SP River Orwell 83 129 h 9m 55 h
Anglian Water IPSWICH-HADLEIGH RD OV River Gipping 6 50 h 45m -
Anglian Water Portman's Walk Pumping Station Orwell Estuary 19 28 h 47m 0 h
Anglian Water Stoke Bridge Combined Sewer Overflow Tidal River Orwell 11 22 h 16m 54 h
Anglian Water IPSWICH MH8504 LONDON RD/HADLEIGH RD JUNCTION River Orwell 18 13 h 45m -
Anglian Water Maidenhall Combined Sewer Overflow River Orwell T 19 12 h 17m 56 h
Anglian Water Stoke Bridge Combined Sewer Overflow Tidal River Orwell 1 6 h 15m -
Anglian Water IPSWICH MH8504 LONDON RD/HADLEIGH RD JUNCTION River Orwell 5 6 h 9m -
Anglian Water East Maintenance River Orwell 10 5 h 55m -
Anglian Water Portman's Walk Pumping Station Orwell Estuary 2 3 h 45m -
Anglian Water Portman's Walk Pumping Station Orwell Estuary 3 3 h 44m -
Anglian Water Yarmouth Road Combined Sewer Overflow River Orwell 4 2 h 58m -
Anglian Water Dock Street Pumping Station River Orwell 4 2 h 19m -
Anglian Water East Maintenance River Orwell 7 1 h 43m -
Anglian Water Maidenhall Combined Sewer Overflow River Orwell T 1 0 h 14m -
Anglian Water Ipswich Wolsey Street Pumping Station River Orwell 0 0 h -
Anglian Water IPSWICH-RIVERSIDE RD CSO River Gipping 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Portman's Walk Pumping Station Orwell Estuary 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Ipswich Wolsey Street Pumping Station River Orwell 0 0 h -
Anglian Water IPSWICH-WHERSTEAD RD SP River Orwell 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Yarmouth Road Combined Sewer Overflow River Orwell 0 0 h -
Anglian Water IPSWICH-HADLEIGH RD OV River Gipping 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Dock Street Pumping Station River Orwell 0 0 h -

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.