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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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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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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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