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Rayleigh and Wickford

Polluted by sewage 48 times in 2025 lasting 337 hours

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Live data for Rayleigh and Wickford in 2026

So far this year (as of 5 Sept 2026, 22:00) there has been 88 hours of sewage overflows, from 26 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Rayleigh and Wickford in 2025

7 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
48 sewage dumps
337 hours duration
That's 2.01 weeks. 4 times a month, over the year

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rayleigh and Wickford 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water River Crouch T WICKFORD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 15 231 51.5
Anglian Water River Crouch HULLBRIDGE-WHITE POST CORNER TPS 4 39 100
Anglian Water Tidal River Crouch FERRY RD SPS HULLBRIDGE 4 24 100
Anglian Water River Crouch T RAYLEIGH WEST STW 4 22 100
Anglian Water Uraty Of River Crouch HULLBRIDGE-FERRY ROAD 2 CSO 13 13 98.5
Anglian Water River Crouch CHEAPSIDE 6 5 97.4
Anglian Water River Crouch RUNWELL TPS 2 1 99.3
Anglian Water Hawkwell Brook HAWKWELL - RECTORY ROAD CSO 0 0 97.6
Anglian Water River Roach HAWKWELL ROAD 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Crouch HULLBRIDGE - KESWICK AVENUE CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water Rayleigh Brook RAYLEIGH - WYBURNS AVENUE PS 0 0 100
Anglian Water Eastwood Brook RES. DEVLPT 0 0 100
Anglian Water Hockley Brook ROCHFORD - DORIC AV & ASHINGT R CSO 0 0 99.9

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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