Polluted by sewage 3,428 hours in 2025
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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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Donate Now| Company | Site Name | Receiving Waterway | Overflow Days | Total Duration (hours) | Total Duration (days) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglian Water | GREAT EASTON STW (ESSEX) | River Chelmer | 44 | 656 h 24m | 27.33 |
| Anglian Water | GREAT DUNMOW STW | River Chelmer | 29 | 556 h 1m | 23.17 |
| Anglian Water | GT EASTON-BRIDGEFOOT TPS | River Chelmer | 27 | 551 h 25m | 22.96 |
| Anglian Water | WICKEN BONHUNT-SP | Wicken Water | 29 | 542 h 57m | 22.58 |
| Anglian Water | THAXTED-PARK STREET | River Chelmer | 46 | 531 h 54m | 22.12 |
| Thames Water | Stansted Mountfitchet STW | River Stort | 16 | 158 h 15m | 6.58 |
| Thames Water | Stansted Mountfitchet STW | River Stort | 13 | 154 h 45m | 6.42 |
| Anglian Water | GREAT EASTON STW (ESSEX) | River Chelmer | 8 | 49 h 47m | 2.04 |
| Anglian Water | GT EASTON-BRIDGEFOOT TPS | River Chelmer | 6 | 45 h 49m | 1.88 |
| Anglian Water | GREAT DUNMOW STW | River Chelmer | 6 | 30 h 46m | 1.25 |
| Anglian Water | GREAT CHESTERFORD STW | River Cam | 2 | 28 h 14m | 1.17 |
| Thames Water | Leaden Roding STW | River Roding | 6 | 26 h 45m | 1.08 |
| Anglian Water | PLESHEY-FORD END SP | R Chelmer | 8 | 25 h 56m | 1.04 |
| Anglian Water | THAXTED-PARK STREET | River Chelmer | 11 | 20 h 54m | 0.83 |
| Anglian Water | Castle Street/High Street Combined Sewer Overflow | Slade | 40 | 18 h 32m | 0.75 |
| Anglian Water | SAFFRON WALDEN STW | Slade River | 7 | 11 h 34m | 0.46 |
| Anglian Water | WICKEN BONHUNT-SP | Wicken Water | 2 | 8 h 45m | 0.33 |
| Thames Water | Stansted Airport SPS | Pincey Brook | 1 | 3 h 52m | 0.12 |
| Anglian Water | GT DUNMOW STW | River Chelmer | 4 | 1 h 50m | 0.04 |
| Anglian Water | SAFFRON WALDEN STW | Slade River | 4 | 1 h 44m | 0.04 |
| Anglian Water | Castle Street/High Street Combined Sewer Overflow | Slade | 3 | 0 h 59m | 0 |
| Anglian Water | LT WALTHAM-CHATHAM GN SP | Straw Brook | 1 | 0 h 45m | 0 |
| Anglian Water | SAFFRON WALDEN STW | Slade River | 1 | 0 h 23m | 0 |
| Anglian Water | PLESHEY-FORD END SP | R Chelmer | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Anglian Water | SAFFRON WALDEN-VICTORIA THX OV | Slade | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Anglian Water | SAFFRON WALDEN STW | Slade River | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Anglian Water | LT WALTHAM-CHATHAM GN SP | Straw Brook | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Anglian Water | GT DUNMOW STW | River Chelmer | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Anglian Water | Park Street CSO | River Chelmer | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Thames Water | Leaden Roding STW | River Roding | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Anglian Water | GREAT CHESTERFORD STW | River Cam | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Anglian Water | SAFFRON WALDEN-GEORGE ABBEY OV | Slade River Cam | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Anglian Water | CHELMSFORD-N MLBN CHIGNAL R SP | One Bridge Brook | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Anglian Water | CSO and EO at Springfield-Oak Lodge SP | R Chelmer | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Anglian Water | LT CHESTERFORD-TPS | R Cam | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Anglian Water | SAFFRON WALDEN-GEORGE ABBEY OV | Slade River Cam | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Anglian Water | GT WALTHAM-HOWE ST SP | River Chelmer | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Anglian Water | Park Street CSO | River Chelmer | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Thames Water | Stansted Airport SPS | Pincey Brook | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
| Anglian Water | Writtle - Lawford Lane Pumping Station | River Wid | 0 | 0 h | 0 |
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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