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North West Essex - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,560 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 3,299 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in North West Essex 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 - 1,129 hours , 744 offline
Feb - 1,286 hours , 672 offline
Mar - 134 hours , 744 offline
Apr - 10 hours , 720 offline
May - 0 hours , 419 offline
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Thames Water Stansted Mountfitchet STW River Stort 60 1,073h 30m -
Anglian Water GREAT EASTON STW (ESSEX) River Chelmer 49 775h 19m -
Anglian Water GREAT DUNMOW STW River Chelmer 27 292h 51m -
Anglian Water GT EASTON-BRIDGEFOOT TPS River Chelmer 24 292h 29m -
Anglian Water THAXTED-PARK STREET River Chelmer 16 44h 15m -
Anglian Water WICKEN BONHUNT-SP Wicken Water 6 28h 45m -
Thames Water Leaden Roding STW River Roding 6 22h 15m -
Anglian Water CHELMSFORD-N MLBN CHIGNAL R SP One Bridge Brook 1 12h 29m -
Anglian Water PLESHEY-FORD END SP R Chelmer 2 10h 14m -
Anglian Water Castle Street/High Street Combined Sewer Overflow Slade 9 5h 37m -
Anglian Water SAFFRON WALDEN STW Slade River 4 2h 17m -
Anglian Water LT WALTHAM-CHATHAM GN SP Straw Brook 1 0h 45m -
Thames Water Garnetts (Bishops Stortford) SPS Wayletts Ditch 0 0h -
Anglian Water WICKEN BONHUNT-SP Wicken Water 0 0h -
Anglian Water SAFFRON WALDEN-GEORGE ABBEY OV Slade River Cam 0 0h -
Anglian Water GT DUNMOW STW River Chelmer 0 0h -
Thames Water Stansted Airport SPS Pincey Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water GREAT DUNMOW STW River Chelmer 0 0h -
Anglian Water Castle Street/High Street Combined Sewer Overflow Slade 0 0h -
Anglian Water Park Street CSO River Chelmer 0 0h -
Anglian Water CSO and EO at Springfield-Oak Lodge SP R Chelmer 0 0h -
Anglian Water GT WALTHAM-HOWE ST SP River Chelmer 0 0h -
Anglian Water GT EASTON-BRIDGEFOOT TPS River Chelmer 0 0h -
Anglian Water SAFFRON WALDEN-VICTORIA THX OV Slade 0 0h -
Anglian Water GREAT CHESTERFORD STW River Cam 0 0h -
Anglian Water Park Street CSO River Chelmer 0 0h -
Anglian Water SAFFRON WALDEN STW Slade River 0 0h -
Anglian Water GREAT EASTON STW (ESSEX) River Chelmer 0 0h -
Anglian Water GREAT CHESTERFORD STW River Cam 0 0h -
Anglian Water PLESHEY-FORD END SP R Chelmer 0 0h -
Anglian Water THAXTED-PARK STREET River Chelmer 0 0h -
Anglian Water Writtle - Lawford Lane Pumping Station River Wid 0 0h -
Thames Water Leaden Roding STW River Roding 0 0h -
Thames Water Stansted Mountfitchet STW River Stort 0 0h -
Anglian Water SAFFRON WALDEN STW Slade River 0 0h -
Anglian Water SAFFRON WALDEN STW Slade River 0 0h -
Thames Water Garnetts (Bishops Stortford) SPS Wayletts Ditch 0 0h -
Anglian Water LT CHESTERFORD-TPS R Cam 0 0h -
Anglian Water SAFFRON WALDEN-VICTORIA THX OV Slade 0 0h -
Anglian Water LT WALTHAM-CHATHAM GN SP Straw Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water LT CHESTERFORD-TPS R Cam 0 0h 3,299 h
Thames Water Stansted Airport SPS Pincey Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water SAFFRON WALDEN-GEORGE ABBEY OV Slade River Cam 0 0h -
Anglian Water GT DUNMOW STW River Chelmer 0 0h -
Anglian Water Writtle - Lawford Lane Pumping Station River Wid 0 0h -

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.