Poplar and Limehouse polluted by sewage 37 times in 2022 - lasting 68 hours

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Totals for Poplar and Limehouse in 2022
6 Sites polluted by Thames Water
37 sewage dumps
68 h duration
That's 2.83 days. 3.1 times a month, over the year
Constituencies near Poplar and Limehouse
Live River Pollution Information (Updated 3 hours ago)
On the map above you can see live river pollution information. Rivers likely to be impacted by sewage pollution are marked in brown. This is based on Thames Water live data API, and modelling by Dr Alex Lipp at Merton College, Oxford. More details on the methodology will be added soon.
Daily Data for 2023
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Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Poplar and Limehouse in 2022. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Thames Water Tidal Thames N E Sr Shadwell, King Edward Mem Pa 13 41 100
Thames Water River Thames IRONGATE SEWER, LONDON 11 12 87.1
Thames Water Tidal Thames RATCLIFFE HIGHWAY LIMEKILN CSO 1 7 99
Thames Water Thames NIGHTINGALE LANE CSO 4 2 63
Thames Water Tidal Riverthames BELL WHARF OUTLET, LONDON 5 2 100
Thames Water River Thames ISLE OF DOGS PUMPING STATION CSO 3 0 100
Thames Water River Thames WAPPING DOCK, GUN WHARF, LONDON 0 0 99.7
Thames Water River Thames HOLLOWAY STORM SEWER, LONDON 0 0 0
Thames Water River Thames KING EDWARD MEMORIAL PARK, LONDON 0 0 0

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales

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.

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