Maldon was polluted by sewage 591 times in 2023
lasting 5,098 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Maldon in 2023
19 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
591 sewage dumps
5,098 h duration
That's 7.08 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 Maldon 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 3 of the total 28 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 3 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water Mundon Wash River PURLEIGH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 54 760 100
Anglian Water Bradwell Brook Sea TILLINGHAM STW 59 746 99.6
Anglian Water Pennys Brook MALDON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 42 666 100
Anglian Water Mayland Creek River Blackwater MAYLAND WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 74 544 100
Anglian Water River Blackwater FAMBRIDGE RD - MALDON 40 357 99.3
Anglian Water Latchington Brook Mundon Crk B LATCHINGDON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 34 309 100
Anglian Water Bradwell Creek BRADWELL-ON-SEA STW 21 273 99.1
Anglian Water Raywick Ditch SOUTHMINSTER - HALL RD CSO 44 229 84.4
Anglian Water Mayland Brook NIPSELLS CHASE PS 26 214 100
Anglian Water Asheldham Brook DEVONSHIRE ROAD 28 205 100
Anglian Water Sandon Brook HEATH ROAD PS 25 177 100
Anglian Water River Crouch BURNHAM ON CROUCH WRC 47 167 99.3
Anglian Water River Crouch RUNWELL - BROCK HILL CSO 32 159 100
Anglian Water River Crouch COLD NORTON - STOW ROAD PS 27 145 100
Anglian Water River Chelmer LITTLE BADDOW PS 11 68 100
Anglian Water Sandon Brook EAST HANNINGFIELD OLD CHURCH RD PS 10 52 100
Anglian Water Motts Farm Drain R Black CARAVAN PARK PUMPING STATION 7 16 100
Anglian Water River Crouch SOUTHMINSTER - BURNHAM ROAD CSO 9 3 99.9
Anglian Water River Crouch RUNWELL-DOWNHAM ROAD CSO 1 1 100
Anglian Water River Blackwater Via A Lagoon MALDON PARK DRIVE CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Colne SSO HIGH ST HALSTEAD 0 0 0
Anglian Water Fen Creek BICKNACRE - WOODHAM ROAD SPS 0 0 100
Anglian Water Sharps Farm Brook RAMSEY CHASE 0 0 0
Anglian Water Sandon Brook LOWER GREEN GT BADDOW 0 0 98.9
Anglian Water River Crouch CHURCH END LANE SO 0 0 36.8
Anglian Water Motts Farm Drain RAMSEY ISLAND ST LAWRENCE DRIVE PS 0 0 100
Anglian Water Sandon Brook RIGNALS LA CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Chelmer GALLEYWOOD - BAKERS LANE SP 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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