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Maldon

Polluted by sewage 157 times in 2025 lasting 820 hours

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Live data for Maldon in 2026

So far this year (as of 5 Sept 2026, 18:45) there has been 1,698 hours of sewage overflows, from 52 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Maldon in 2025

16 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
157 sewage dumps
820 hours duration
That's 1.14 months. 3 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Maldon in 2025. 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water Bradwell Brook Sea TILLINGHAM STW 20 205 99.9
Anglian Water Sandon Brook RIGNALS LA CSO 9 119 99.7
Anglian Water Mayland Creek River Blackwater MAYLAND WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 33 80 100
Anglian Water Mundon Wash River PURLEIGH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 10 79 100
Anglian Water River Chelmer LITTLE BADDOW PS 17 73 99.1
Anglian Water Mayland Brook NIPSELLS CHASE PS 6 44 100
Anglian Water Asheldham Brook DEVONSHIRE ROAD 8 44 100
Anglian Water River Crouch RUNWELL - BROCK HILL CSO 23 43 96.7
Anglian Water Pennys Brook MALDON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 4 36 100
Anglian Water Sandon Brook HEATH ROAD PS 2 29 100
Anglian Water River Blackwater FAMBRIDGE RD - MALDON 4 19 99.5
Anglian Water River Crouch COLD NORTON - STOW ROAD PS 7 15 100
Anglian Water Sandon Brook EAST HANNINGFIELD OLD CHURCH RD PS 1 9 100
Anglian Water Latchington Brook Mundon Crk B LATCHINGDON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 2 9 99.4
Anglian Water River Crouch SOUTHMINSTER - BURNHAM ROAD CSO 8 6 100
Anglian Water Motts Farm Drain R Black CARAVAN PARK PUMPING STATION 3 5 100
Anglian Water Fen Creek BICKNACRE - WOODHAM ROAD SPS 0 0 100
Anglian Water Bradwell Creek BRADWELL-ON-SEA STW 0 0 100
Anglian Water Sandon Brook LOWER GREEN GT BADDOW 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Blackwater Via A Lagoon MALDON PARK DRIVE CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water Motts Farm Drain RAMSEY ISLAND ST LAWRENCE DRIVE PS 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Crouch RUNWELL-DOWNHAM ROAD CSO 0 0 70.9

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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.

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