North West Essex was polluted by sewage 434 times in 2024
lasting 3,503 hours

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✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023

Live data for North West Essex in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:30 PM) there has been 429 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for North West Essex in 2024

17 Sites polluted by Anglian Water, Thames Water

434 sewage dumps
3,503 h duration

That's 4.87 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in North West Essex

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for North West Essex, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North West Essex in 2024. 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 0 of the total 21 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Anglian Water	River Chelmer	GREAT EASTON(ESSEX) STW	89	981	100
Thames Water	River Stort	STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET WWTW	64	922	99.8
Anglian Water	R Chelmer	PLESHEY - FORD END PUMPING STATION	33	446	56.6
Anglian Water	River Chelmer	GREAT DUNMOW STW	39	378	100
Anglian Water	R Cam	LITTLE CHESTERFORD	16	206	100
Anglian Water	River Chelmer	GT EASTON - BRIDGEFOOT TPS	16	194	100
Anglian Water	Straw Brook	CHATHAM GREEN PUMPING STATION	15	146	99.9
Thames Water	River Roding	LEADEN RODING WWTW	9	66	100
Anglian Water	Slade River	SAFFRON WALDEN WRC	37	48	100
Anglian Water	Slade	CASTLE STREET/HIGH STREET	55	30	100
Anglian Water	River Chelmer	GREAT DUNMOW STW	10	25	88.7
Anglian Water	Slade River Cam	SAFFRON WALDEN-GEORGE ABBEY OV	24	24	100
Anglian Water	River Chelmer	THAXTED - PARK STREET CSO	16	21	99.2
Thames Water	Roding	Canfield End, Little Canfield	1	6	100
Anglian Water	Slade	THAXTED ROAD/VICTORIA AVE CSO	7	3	100
Thames Water	Wayletts Ditch	Takeley - Garnets	1	1	99.5
Thames Water	Pincey Brook	Stansted Airport	2	0	99.6
Anglian Water	River Cam	GREAT CHESTERFORD WRC	0	0	99.9
Anglian Water	River Wid	WRITTLE - LAWFORD LANE PS	0	0	100
Thames Water	Great Hallingbury Brook	Birchanger - Duck End	0	0	99.8
Anglian Water	River Chelmer	GREAT WALTHAM - HOWE STREET PS	0	0	100

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.

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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