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Poplar and Limehouse - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 33 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 4,033 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Poplar and Limehouse for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 3 hours
Feb - 0 hours
Mar - 0 hours , 5 offline
Apr - 0 hours , 6 offline
May - 3 hours , 107 offline
Jun - 2 hours , 34 offline
Jul - 8 hours , 279 offline
Aug - 4 hours , 920 offline
Sept - 1 hours , 1,074 offline
Oct - 5 hours , 1,079 offline
Nov - 1 hours , 497 offline
Dec - 1 hours , 27 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Thames Water Nightingale lane River Thames 25 17 h 54m 100 h
Thames Water Iron gate River Thames 17 11 h -
Thames Water Ne storm relief shadwell, king edward mem park Tidal Thames 3 2 h 2m 166 h
Thames Water Isle of Dogs SWPS River Thames 2 1 h 30m -
Thames Water Nightingale lane River Thames 1 1 h 10m -
Thames Water Bell wharf Tidal Riverthames 0 0 h -
Thames Water Gun wharf (wapping dock) River Thames 0 0 h 2,791 h
Thames Water Ratcliffe highway limekiln Tidal Thames 0 0 h -
Thames Water Bell wharf Tidal Riverthames 0 0 h 100 h
Thames Water Iron gate River Thames 0 0 h -
Thames Water Isle of Dogs SWPS River Thames 0 0 h -
Thames Water Gun wharf (wapping dock) River Thames 0 0 h -
Thames Water Ratcliffe highway limekiln Tidal Thames 0 0 h 813 h
Thames Water Ne storm relief shadwell, king edward mem park Tidal Thames 0 0 h 59 h
Thames Water Holloway storm sewer River Thames 0 0 h -

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.