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North Somerset - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,888 hours in 2026 so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in North Somerset so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

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 - 583 hours
Feb - 1,247 hours
Mar - 56 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Wessex Water BUTCOMBE STORM TANK Congresbury Yeo And Butcombe 44 1,010 h 33m -
Wessex Water PORTBURY WHARF THE DROVE PORTBURY INLET Unknown 54 647 h 52m -
Wessex Water WRINGTON Congresbury Yeo 14 154 h 56m -
Wessex Water KINGSTON SEYMOUR Unknown 11 38 h 9m -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD PORTBURY DITCH OFF HARBOUR RD Portbury Ditch 5 10 h 20m -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD HILLSIDE ROAD REDCLIFF BAY River Severn 11 6 h 54m -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD BLACK NORE (NAUTICAL SCHOOL) Severn Estuary 6 5 h 42m -
Wessex Water CLEVEDON LADYE BAY Bristol Channel 9 4 h 57m -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 1 3 h 26m -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD COOMBE/SLADE ROAD JUNCTION Portbury Ditch 4 1 h 40m -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD HIGH STREET NR BUILDERS YARD Unknown 4 1 h 38m -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD LAKE GROUNDS Estuary 2 1 h 14m -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD TOWN HARBOUR ROAD Portbury Ditch, 2 0 h 41m -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD SLADE ROAD O/S XX Portbury Ditch 2 0 h 16m -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD POACHER HOTEL (ANCHOR HOTEL) Unknown 3 0 h 6m -
Wessex Water CLEVEDON LADYE BAY Bristol Channel 0 0 h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD COOMBE/SLADE ROAD JUNCTION Portbury Ditch 0 0 h -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD HILLSIDE ROAD REDCLIFF BAY River Severn 0 0 h -
Wessex Water PORTBURY DROVE Portbury Drove Rhyne 0 0 h -
Wessex Water CLEVEDON OLD STREET O/S XX Land Yeo 0 0 h -
Wessex Water CLEVEDON MARINE PARADE Severn Estuary 0 0 h -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD POACHER HOTEL (ANCHOR HOTEL) Unknown 0 0 h -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD BRAMPTON WAY Portbury Via Sws 0 0 h -
Wessex Water CLEVEDON THE BEACH Bristol Channel 0 0 h -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD SLADE ROAD O/S XX Portbury Ditch 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL OLD MEAD WALK NO X . Colliters Brook Via Sws 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BRISTOL OLD MEAD WALK NO X . Colliters Brook Via Sws 0 0 h -
Wessex Water CLEVEDON MAIN Bristol Channel 0 0 h -
Wessex Water WRINGTON WILTONS INLET Congressbury Yeo 0 0 h -
Wessex Water PORTBURY WHARF THE DROVE PORTBURY INLET Unknown 0 0 h -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD TOWN HARBOUR ROAD Portbury Ditch, 0 0 h -
Wessex Water CLEVEDON MARINE PARADE Severn Estuary 0 0 h -
Wessex Water WRINGTON Congresbury Yeo 0 0 h -
Wessex Water CLEVEDON PARNELL ROAD Land Yeo 0 0 h -
Wessex Water CLEVEDON THE BEACH Bristol Channel 0 0 h -
Wessex Water CLEVEDON MAIN Bristol Channel 0 0 h -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD BLACK NORE (NAUTICAL SCHOOL) Severn Estuary 0 0 h -
Wessex Water PORTBURY DROVE Portbury Drove Rhyne 0 0 h -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD PORTBURY DITCH OFF HARBOUR RD Portbury Ditch 0 0 h -
Wessex Water CLEVEDON PARNELL ROAD Land Yeo 0 0 h -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD LAKE GROUNDS Estuary 0 0 h -
Wessex Water PORTISHEAD HIGH STREET NR BUILDERS YARD Unknown 0 0 h -
Wessex Water BUTCOMBE STORM TANK Congresbury Yeo And Butcombe 0 0 h -
Wessex Water KINGSTON SEYMOUR Unknown 0 0 h -
Wessex Water WRINGTON WILTONS INLET Congressbury Yeo 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.

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