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Lowestoft was polluted by sewage 592 times in 2023
lasting 1,387 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023

Totals for Lowestoft in 2023

20 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

592 sewage dumps
1,387 h duration

That's 1.93 months. On average 1.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Lowestoft

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Lowestoft in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 4 of the total 24 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 4 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Anglian Water	Kessingland Hundred River	KESSINGLAND WRC	38	664	100
Anglian Water	North Sea	NESS POINT PUMPING STATION	90	141	100
Anglian Water	River Waveney T	BECCLES WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	36	102	100
Anglian Water	Inner Harbour	ST PETERS ST AND NEWSONS MEADOW CSO	92	93	100
Anglian Water	River Waveney	BECCLES - COMMON LANE TERMINAL PS	27	88	100
Anglian Water	North Sea	CORTON BAKERS SCORE PUMPING STATION	43	76	100
Anglian Water	Inner Harbour	ST PETERS STREET CSO	66	55	100
Anglian Water	Inner Harbour	ROTTERDAM ROAD #2 CSO	46	34	100
Anglian Water	Waveney Dock	LOWESTOFT MARINA CSO	49	34	96.4
Anglian Water	North Sea	NESS POINT PUMPING STATION	11	25	100
Anglian Water	Inner Harbour To North Sea	LOWESTOFT BELVEDERE ROAD CSO	28	22	100
Anglian Water	Unnamed River Waveney	BECCLES - CAXTON SPORTS GROUND CSO	14	22	100
Anglian Water	River Waveney	BECCLES - INGATE SSO	17	11	100
Anglian Water	Inner Harbour	YEOVIL ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	7	3	85.3
Anglian Water	North Sea	CORTON - CHURCH LANE TPS	2	3	100
Anglian Water	Lake Lothing	OULTON BROAD-HOLLY ROAD TERMINAL PS	8	2	99.8
Anglian Water	Inner Harbour	NORWICH ROAD CSO'S (#1 & #2)	6	2	99.8
Anglian Water	North Sea Via Outer Harbour	ROYAL NORFOLK & SUFFOLK YACHT CLUB	6	1	100
Anglian Water	Inner Harbour	ROTTERDAM ROAD #1 CSO	2	1	99.9
Anglian Water	Lake Lothing	LOWESTOFT ST JOHN'S ROAD CSO	4	0	100
Anglian Water	Outer Harbour	STATION SQUARE NO2 CSO	0	0	0
Anglian Water	Trawl Basin	STATION SQUARE#1 CSO	0	0	0
Anglian Water	River Waveney	BECCLES-GROVE ROAD OV	0	0	0
Anglian Water	Inner Harbour	BRIDGE	0	0	0

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

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