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Rayleigh and Wickford

Polluted by sewage 111 times in 2024 lasting 920 hours

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Live data for Rayleigh and Wickford in 2026

So far this year (as of 26 Feb 2026, 22:31) there has been 66 hours of sewage overflows, from 26 CSOs

Totals for Rayleigh and Wickford in 2024

6 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

111 sewage dumps

920 hours duration

That's 1.28 months. 2.1 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rayleigh and Wickford in 2024. 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 CSOs 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	26	398	86.5
Anglian Water	River Crouch	HULLBRIDGE-WHITE POST CORNER TPS	27	224	100
Anglian Water	Tidal River Crouch	FERRY RD SPS HULLBRIDGE	18	170	100
Anglian Water	River Crouch T	RAYLEIGH WEST STW	14	113	99.9
Anglian Water	River Crouch	CHEAPSIDE	25	11	97.6
Anglian Water	Rayleigh Brook	RAYLEIGH - WYBURNS AVENUE PS	1	1	100
Anglian Water	Hawkwell Brook	HAWKWELL - RECTORY ROAD CSO	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Roach	HAWKWELL ROAD	0	0	99.5
Anglian Water	River Crouch	HULLBRIDGE - KESWICK AVENUE CSO	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Uraty Of River Crouch	HULLBRIDGE-FERRY ROAD 2 CSO	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Eastwood Brook	RES. DEVLPT	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Hockley Brook	ROCHFORD - DORIC AV & ASHINGT R CSO	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Crouch	RUNWELL TPS	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.

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