Somerton and Frome polluted by sewage 4,046 times in 2023 - lasting 46,323 hours

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Totals for Somerton and Frome in 2023
89 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
4,046 sewage dumps
46,323 h duration
That's 5.36 years! On average 11.1 times a day
Change Over Time

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Somerton and Frome in 2023. 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 0 of the total 94 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water River Brue BUTLEIGH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 147 2,727 100
Wessex Water Long Sutton Catchwater PIBSBURY PUMPING STATION 101 2,273 100
Wessex Water Cunlease Rhyne TOOTLE BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 119 2,271 99.7
Wessex Water River Isle FIVEHEAD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 99 2,092 99.9
Wessex Water River Cary SOMERTON STW 89 1,804 99.8
Wessex Water Nunney Brook NUNNEY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 104 1,771 99.9
Wessex Water Mells River COLEFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 147 1,747 100
Wessex Water River Cam FROG LANE PUMPING STATION 82 1,709 99.8
Wessex Water Bull Brook ROOKERY FARM PS 85 1,674 99.8
Wessex Water River Cam NORTH CADBURY WATER RECYCLING CENTR 106 1,666 100
Wessex Water Crouds Lake BENNETTS ORCHARD PUMPING STATION 79 1,597 99.9
Wessex Water Park Brook KINGSDON PUMPING STATION 77 1,581 100
Wessex Water Parrett And Hinton Meads Brook MARTOCK WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 129 1,542 99.75
Wessex Water Somerset Frome RODE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 102 1,429 100
Wessex Water River Cam SPARKFORD WRC 151 1,346 99.7
Wessex Water Mells River EDFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 174 1,272 99.9
Wessex Water River Yeo MARSTON MAGNA PUMPING STATION 75 1,255 100
Wessex Water Low Ham Rhyne PITNEY PUMPING STATION 68 1,115 98.2
Wessex Water River Cale CHARLTON MUSGROVE STW 59 1,087 100
Wessex Water River Alham DITCHEAT WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 81 973 99.9
Wessex Water River Cale WINCANTON WWTW 70 906 99.9
Wessex Water Norton Brook NORTON ST PHILIP WWTW 66 832 97.9
Wessex Water Bow Brook TEMPLECOMBE 64 801 100
Wessex Water Wagg Rhyne WAGG BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 45 775 99.7
Wessex Water Henover Brook MILBORNE PORT STW 51 636 99.9
Wessex Water River Frome TRUDOXHILL PUMPING STATION 65 612 99.8
Wessex Water River Isle ILTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 70 612 100
Wessex Water River Alham EVERCREECH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 96 607 99.85
Wessex Water River Cary CASTLE CARY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 60 594 99.9
Wessex Water Whatley Brook CRANMORE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 84 559 99.9
Wessex Water River Brue HAVYATT PUMPING STATION 56 544 99.8
Wessex Water River Frome BECKINGTON WWTW 31 458 100
Wessex Water Bromers Brook CHARLTON HORETHORNE WWTW 33 365 99.5
Wessex Water River Frome WITHAM FRIARY PUMPING STATION 36 299 99.8
Wessex Water Leigh Stream LEIGH ON MENDIP WWTW 38 296 99.8
Wessex Water River Cale HENSTRIDGE PUMPING STATION 37 287 100
Wessex Water Mells Stream MELLS WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 25 271 99.8
Wessex Water Mill Stream BALTONSBOROUGH(MAIN)PUMPING STATION 58 271 100
Wessex Water River Brue ALFORD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 32 249 99.7
Wessex Water Barton Brook BARTON ST DAVID PUMPING STATION 27 247 100
Wessex Water Of Kings Moor Main Drain KNOLE PUMPING STATION 23 245 99.9
Wessex Water Millstream LOWER SOMERTON PS 23 207 99.8
Wessex Water Cad Brook FROST LANE PUMPING STATION 19 203 100
Wessex Water River Parrett KINGSBURY EPISCOPI PUMPING STATION 16 185 100
Wessex Water Mells Stream KINGS HEAD CSO 52 170 93.7
Wessex Water Long Sutton Main Drain UPTON PUMPING STATION 20 170 100
Wessex Water Kilmersdon Stream KILMERSDON PUMPING STATION 39 165 100
Wessex Water River Frome ADDERWELL CLOSE CSO 69 157 92.2
Wessex Water River Brue BRUTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 15 142 100
Wessex Water Nunney Brook WANSTROW PS 29 139 99.8
Wessex Water River Frome LOWER KEYFORD CSO 74 135 100
Wessex Water River Carey KEINTON MANDEVILLE PS 19 132 100
Wessex Water River Cale Via Sws MOOR LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 24 113 100
Wessex Water River Frome FROME WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 53 99 100
Wessex Water River Parrett THE COAT PUMPING STATION 22 97 100
Wessex Water Drayton Drain CURRY RIVEL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 9 91 99.9
Wessex Water River Cam MILDMAY PLACE CSO 21 89 99.8
Wessex Water Luccombe Watercourse STRATTON ON FOSSE WWTW 6 73 100
Wessex Water Oxleasedrove Rhyne East ALLER PUMPING STATION 15 68 100
Wessex Water Mill Stream ORCHARD LEIGH CSO 12 67 100
Wessex Water Drayton Drain DUCKS LANE 5 45 100
Wessex Water River Cale BENNETTS FIELD CSO 29 40 100
Wessex Water Hinton Meads Brook HURST COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 30 38 100
Wessex Water Northstreet Moor Rhyne Via Sws SOMERTON ROAD COMBINED SEWER OF 32 33 99.8
Wessex Water Coxbridge Brook PARBROOK WRC 5 32 100
Wessex Water River Cam GREEN LANE PUMPING STATION 5 29 100
Wessex Water River Frome RODE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 4 20 99.8
Wessex Water Bow Brook TEMPLECOMBE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 19 19 99.8
Wessex Water River Frome YOUTH CENTRE CSO 47 18 99.9
Wessex Water River Cale BAYFORD PUMPING STATION 8 18 100
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws WHATCOMBE ROAD CSO 42 17 91.8
Wessex Water Mill Brook COURT HOUSE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 2 14 100
Wessex Water Ten Foot Rhyne PAGE LANE PUMPING STATION 2 13 100
Wessex Water Mells Stream MELLS PS 3 11 100
Wessex Water River Frome COURT HOUSE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 29 8 99.9
Wessex Water River Frome MERCHANTS BARTON CSO 24 6 96.2
Wessex Water River Alham STONEY STRATTON PUMPING STATION 2 4 100
Wessex Water Bow Brook SLADES HILL PS 2 3 99.9
Wessex Water Mells Stream STOKE HILL PUMPING STATION 1 3 95
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws 8 MARKET PLACE CSO 16 3 99.7
Wessex Water River Frome PORTWAY LOCKS HILL CSO 15 3 100
Wessex Water River Frome RODDEN ROAD CSO 6 3 99.7
Wessex Water Nunney Brook NUNNEY CASTLE CSO 6 1 97
Wessex Water River Frome NORTH OF CARPET FACTORY CSO 7 1 99.8
Wessex Water River Frome WALLBRIDGE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 4 1 99.7
Wessex Water Adderwell Brook FELTHAM DRIVE CSO 16 1 99.8
Wessex Water River Stour PEN MILL PUMPING STATION 1 0 100
Wessex Water River Frome WESTWAY PRECINCT CAR PARK CSO 5 0 100
Wessex Water River Cary CHARLTON ADAM PUMPING STATION 1 0 99.9
Wessex Water Wagg Drove Rhyne WAGG DROVE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Cam SOUTH CADBURY PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Nunney Brook MARSTON LANE PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.9
Wessex Water River Cary TORBAY ROAD 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Cary NEW HILL 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

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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