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Norwich South

Polluted by sewage 255 times in 2025 lasting 955 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Norwich South in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 373 hours of sewage overflows, from 46 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Norwich South in 2025

18 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
255 sewage dumps
955 hours duration
That's 1.33 months. 4.9 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Norwich South in 2025. 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 22 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water . ELM HILL OVERFLOW 70 643 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH CEDAR ROAD CSO 11 96 18.9
Anglian Water River Yare TROWSE TERMINAL PUMPING STATION 15 51 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - KETTS HILL CSO 35 50 94.6
Anglian Water River Yare NORWICH SANDY LANE CSO 24 35 67.8
Anglian Water River Wensum GIBRALTAR GARDENS CSO 8 28 95.3
Anglian Water River Wensum KING STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 26 23 99.7
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - KING STREET #2 CSO 20 9 97.8
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH LOWER CLOSE (FERRY LN) CSO 11 7 99.7
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - PRINCE OF WALES ROAD CSO 7 2 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - RIVER LANE CSO 6 2 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH CARROW ROAD CSO 3 2 20.2
Anglian Water River Wensum SCHOOL LANE / BEDFORD STREET CSO 4 1 39
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH ST FAITHS LANE CSO 6 1 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - BARRACK STREET CSO 3 1 89.7
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - CHALK HILL ROAD CSO 2 0 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - ROSARY ROAD CSO 2 0 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH RECORDER ROAD CSO 2 0 99.8
Anglian Water River Yare BRACONDALE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 99.1
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - ELM HILL CSO 0 0 99.9
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - NEW MILLS CSO 0 0 99.3
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH COW TOWER CSO 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. 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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