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South Suffolk was polluted by sewage 565 times in 2023
lasting 4,614 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for South Suffolk in 2023
24 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
565 sewage dumps
4,614 h duration
That's 6.41 months. On average 1.5 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Suffolk 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 2 of the total 31 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 2 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water River Brett MONKS ELEIGH WRC 185 1,189 100
Anglian Water Lavenham Brook River Brett LAVENHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 45 709 100
Anglian Water River Glem GLEMSFORD STW 31 559 100
Anglian Water River Brett HADLEIGH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 45 533 100
Anglian Water Utray Belstead Brook ELMSETT WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 38 520 100
Anglian Water River Box GREAT WALDINGFIELD - FOLLY ROAD PS 21 218 100
Anglian Water Dodnash Brook PARKINS COAL YARD CAPEL ST MARY PS 16 216 100
Anglian Water River Lark LAWSHALL - HARROW TRIANGLE SP 14 185 100
Anglian Water River Box BOXFORD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 10 120 100
Anglian Water River Brett CHELSWORTH CAKEBRIDGE LANE PS 8 81 100
Anglian Water River Stour SUDBURY - GREAT EASTERN ROAD TPS 27 66 100
Anglian Water River Orwell WOOLVERSTONE - MARINA TPS 15 52 100
Anglian Water Gosnalls Brook River Stour EAST BERGHOLT WRC 7 30 100
Anglian Water Stutton Brook GREAT WENHAM STW 3 26 100
Anglian Water Unnamed River Stour SKATES HILL PS 8 26 100
Anglian Water River Box MILL LANE PS 5 24 100
Anglian Water River Orwell T SHOTLEY STW 14 14 100
Anglian Water River Stour BRANTHAM - FACTORY LANE (B) TPS 17 13 92.25
Anglian Water River Stour SUDBURY THE CROFT CSO 25 7 84.4
Anglian Water R Stour SUDBURY BAILEY & COATES CSO 15 7 100
Anglian Water River Stour SUDBURY - CORNARD ROAD PS 8 4 100
Anglian Water Holbrook Stream HOLBROOK STW 4 2 100
Anglian Water River Gipping ELTON PARK PS 2 2 100
Anglian Water Holbrook Creek Estuary Stour HOLBROOK STW 2 1 100
Anglian Water River Brett HADLEIGH 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Stour SUDBURY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 0 0 100
Anglian Water Catawade Creek BRANTHAM - FACTORY LANE (B) TPS 0 0 0
Anglian Water Cornard Black Brook GREAT CORNARD STW 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Box STONE STREET TPS 0 0 100
Anglian Water Lavenham Brook LAVENHAM STW INLET PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Anglian Water Unknown E AREA INTERCPTR SEWER 0 0 0

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. 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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