South Basildon and East Thurrock

Polluted by sewage 31 times in 2025 lasting 54 hours

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Live data for South Basildon and East Thurrock in 2026

So far this year (as of 25 Oct 2026, 19:00) there has been 184 hours of sewage overflows, from 10 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Sewage without rain in South Basildon and East Thurrock

On 11 occasions since December 2024, no rain fell anywhere in South Basildon and East Thurrock for days — and its CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s discharged anyway.

21 Apr - 22 Apr 2026 1 at once · 4h 25 Dec 2025 1 at once · 4h 11 Jul - 13 Jul 2026 1 at once · 3h

Totals for South Basildon and East Thurrock in 2025

3 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
31 sewage dumps
54 hours duration
Sewage pollution map of South Basildon and East Thurrock
Sewage pollution map of South Basildon and East Thurrock: 31 spills in 2025, lasting 54 hours, by Anglian Water
That's 2.25 days. 2.6 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 South Basildon and East Thurrock 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 Pitsea Creek BASILDON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 10 36 100
Anglian Water Timbermans Creek PITSEA WRC 19 10 99.6
Anglian Water Drainage Channel River Thames E TILBURY BATA (LINFORD) 2 7 100

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

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.

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