South Suffolk was polluted by sewage 534 times in 2024
lasting 3,991 hours

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Live data for South Suffolk in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:15 PM) there has been 361 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for South Suffolk in 2024

25 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

534 sewage dumps
3,991 h duration

That's 5.54 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in South Suffolk

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for South Suffolk, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Suffolk 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 0 of the total 28 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 %
Anglian Water	River Brett	MONKS ELEIGH WRC	147	969	99.8
Anglian Water	River Glem	GLEMSFORD STW	21	360	96.9
Anglian Water	River Stour	BRANTHAM - FACTORY LANE (B) TPS	22	360	54.7
Anglian Water	River Box	GREAT WALDINGFIELD - FOLLY ROAD PS	22	339	100
Anglian Water	River Box	BOXFORD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	25	318	100
Anglian Water	Lavenham Brook River Brett	LAVENHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	19	245	98.6
Anglian Water	River Brett	HADLEIGH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	23	242	100
Anglian Water	River Brett	CHELSWORTH CAKEBRIDGE LANE PS	23	211	100
Anglian Water	River Lark	LAWSHALL - HARROW TRIANGLE SP	15	192	99.2
Anglian Water	Lavenham Brook	LAVENHAM STW INLET PUMPING STATION	15	132	78.1
Anglian Water	River Box	MILL LANE PS	17	124	100
Anglian Water	Utray Belstead Brook	ELMSETT WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	19	89	86.8
Anglian Water	Holbrook Stream	HOLBROOK STW	38	82	100
Anglian Water	River Brett	HADLEIGH	9	80	100
Anglian Water	River Orwell	WOOLVERSTONE - MARINA TPS	27	72	100
Anglian Water	Dodnash Brook	PARKINS COAL YARD CAPEL ST MARY PS	4	60	100
Anglian Water	River Gipping	ELTON PARK PS	34	57	99.3
Anglian Water	River Box	STONE STREET TPS	2	24	96.1
Anglian Water	Unnamed River Stour	SKATES HILL PS	6	12	100
Anglian Water	River Stour	SUDBURY THE CROFT CSO	16	4	100
Anglian Water	R Stour	SUDBURY BAILEY & COATES CSO	14	3	100
Anglian Water	River Stour	SUDBURY - CORNARD ROAD PS	5	3	100
Anglian Water	Stutton Brook	GREAT WENHAM STW	2	3	100
Anglian Water	River Orwell T	SHOTLEY STW	8	2	100
Anglian Water	River Stour	SUDBURY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	1	0	100
Anglian Water	Gosnalls Brook River Stour	EAST BERGHOLT WRC	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Holbrook Creek Estuary Stour	HOLBROOK STW	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Cornard Black Brook	GREAT CORNARD STW	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. This 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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