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South Suffolk

Polluted by sewage 235 times in 2025 lasting 353 hours

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Live data for South Suffolk in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,287 hours of sewage overflows, from 60 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for South Suffolk in 2025

17 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
235 sewage dumps
353 hours duration
That's 2.1 weeks. 4.5 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Suffolk 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 Holbrook Stream HOLBROOK STW 28 62 99.8
Anglian Water River Box BOXFORD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 3 46 100
Anglian Water River Lark LAWSHALL - HARROW TRIANGLE SP 6 45 100
Anglian Water River Glem GLEMSFORD STW 4 42 100
Anglian Water Lavenham Brook River Brett LAVENHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 9 31 100
Anglian Water River Gipping ELTON PARK PS 25 26 99.2
Anglian Water River Box MILL LANE PS 120 24 100
Anglian Water River Orwell WOOLVERSTONE - MARINA TPS 9 24 100
Anglian Water River Brett HADLEIGH 2 13 100
Anglian Water Utray Belstead Brook ELMSETT WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 7 13 99.8
Anglian Water Lavenham Brook LAVENHAM STW INLET PUMPING STATION 2 10 100
Anglian Water Unnamed River Stour SKATES HILL PS 3 6 100
Anglian Water River Orwell T SHOTLEY STW 4 2 100
Anglian Water River Stour SUDBURY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 2 2 97.9
Anglian Water River Stour SUDBURY THE CROFT CSO 5 0 99.9
Anglian Water River Brett MONKS ELEIGH WRC 4 0 100
Anglian Water R Stour SUDBURY BAILEY & COATES CSO 2 0 100
Anglian Water River Stour BRANTHAM - FACTORY LANE (B) TPS 0 0 92.3
Anglian Water River Brett CHELSWORTH CAKEBRIDGE LANE PS 0 0 100
Anglian Water Gosnalls Brook River Stour EAST BERGHOLT WRC 0 0 96
Anglian Water Cornard Black Brook GREAT CORNARD STW 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Box GREAT WALDINGFIELD - FOLLY ROAD PS 0 0 100
Anglian Water Stutton Brook GREAT WENHAM STW 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Brett HADLEIGH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 0 0 100
Anglian Water Holbrook Creek Estuary Stour HOLBROOK STW 0 0 100
Anglian Water Dodnash Brook PARKINS COAL YARD CAPEL ST MARY PS 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Box STONE STREET TPS 0 0 72.5

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.

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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