South Suffolk - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,547 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 1,508 hours , potential overflows 290 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in South Suffolk so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

Totals for South Suffolk in 2026

Sewage1,547 hours
Monitoring offline1,508 hours
Potential pollution290 hours
Storm overflows60

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Daily Data

Jan - 637 hours , 107 potential
Feb - 632 hours , 172 potential
Mar - 12 hours
Apr - 0 hours , 0 offline
May - 3 hours
Jun - 56 hours , 342 offline
Jul - 1 hours
Aug - 104 hours
Sept - 18 hours , 9 potential
Oct - 78 hours
Nov - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Anglian Water GLEMSFORD STW River Glem 31 527h 32m -
Anglian Water IPSWICH-CLIFF QUAY RAEBURN ST Tidal River Orwell 35 165h 13m -
Anglian Water BOXTED-COTTAGE (SUFFOLK) STW Glem - Lower 11 141h 58m 219 h
Anglian Water Sudbury Bailey and Coates Combined Sewer Overflow R Stour 47 86h 20m -
Anglian Water East Bergholt WRC Gosnalls Brook River Stour 16 86h 15m 811 h
Anglian Water BOXFORD STW River Box 6 75h 14m 275 h
Anglian Water Sudbury Great Eastern Road Terminal Pumping Station River Stour 21 67h 55m -
Anglian Water LAVENHAM STW Lavenham Brook River Brett 20 48h 27m -
Anglian Water CAPEL ST MARY-PARKINS CL YD SP Dodnash Brook 5 48h 4m -
Anglian Water HOLBROOK STW Holbrook Stream 17 45h 33m 445 h
Anglian Water LAWSHALL-HARROWS TRIANGLE SP River Lark 7 38h 59m -
Anglian Water IPSWICH-CLIFF QUAY STW (SOUTH EASTERN AREA SEWER CSO) Tidal River Orwell 24 37h 56m -
Anglian Water GREAT WENHAM STW Stutton Brook 2 32h 30m -
Anglian Water HADLEIGH STW River Brett 10 29h 48m 24 h
Anglian Water Monks Eleigh WRC River Brett 5 27h 41m -
Anglian Water SPROUGHTON-DAUNDY CLOSE TPS (ELTON PARK PS) River Gipping 13 19h 45m -
Anglian Water CHELSWORTH-CAKEBRIDGE LA SP River Brett 3 18h 44m -
Anglian Water ELMSETT STW Utray Belstead Brook 6 15h 52m -
Anglian Water WOOLVERSTONE-MARINA TPS River Orwell 4 10h 44m -
Anglian Water BOXFORD-STONE ST TPS River Box 2 8h -
Anglian Water Brantham Factory Lane OV River Stour 8 3h 29m -
Anglian Water HADLEIGH STW River Brett 2 3h 27m 24 h
Anglian Water GLEMSFORD-SKATES HILL SP Unnamed River Stour 1 2h 25m -
Anglian Water Sudbury The Croft CSO River Stour 3 1h 45m -
Anglian Water SUDBURY-CORNARD RD SP River Stour 2 1h 15m -
Anglian Water LAVENHAM STW PS Lavenham Brook 1 1h -
Anglian Water GT WALDINGFIELD-FOLLEY RD SP River Box 1 0h 55m -
Anglian Water SHOTLEY-OVERHALL FM STW River Orwell T 1 0h 37m -
Anglian Water HADLEIGH STW River Brett 0 0h -
Anglian Water HOLBROOK STW Holbrook Creek Estuary Stour 0 0h 0 h
Anglian Water IPSWICH-CLIFF QUAY STW (EASTERN AREA SEWER CSO) Tidal River Orwell 0 0h -
Anglian Water GREAT CORNARD STW Cornard Black Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water LAVENHAM STW PS Lavenham Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water CHELSWORTH-CAKEBRIDGE LA SP River Brett 0 0h -
Anglian Water Sudbury Bailey and Coates Combined Sewer Overflow R Stour 0 0h -
Anglian Water Sudbury Water Recycling Centre River Stour 0 0h -
Anglian Water ELMSETT STW Utray Belstead Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water IPSWICH-CLIFF QUAY STW (SOUTH EASTERN AREA SEWER CSO) Tidal River Orwell 0 0h -
Anglian Water Monks Eleigh WRC River Brett 0 0h -
Anglian Water LAVENHAM STW Lavenham Brook River Brett 0 0h -
Anglian Water IPSWICH-CLIFF QUAY STW (EASTERN AREA SEWER CSO) Tidal River Orwell 0 0h -
Anglian Water SHOTLEY-OVERHALL FM STW River Orwell T 0 0h -
Anglian Water GLEMSFORD-SKATES HILL SP Unnamed River Stour 0 0h -
Anglian Water BOXFORD STW River Box 0 0h -
Anglian Water Sudbury Water Recycling Centre River Stour 0 0h -
Anglian Water BRANTHAM SCHOOL LANE SP River Stour 0 0h -
Anglian Water GT WALDINGFIELD-FOLLEY RD SP River Box 0 0h -
Anglian Water Sudbury The Croft CSO River Stour 0 0h -
Anglian Water Sudbury Great Eastern Road Terminal Pumping Station River Stour 0 0h -
Anglian Water SPROUGHTON-DAUNDY CLOSE TPS (ELTON PARK PS) River Gipping 0 0h -
Anglian Water GREAT CORNARD STW Cornard Black Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water SUDBURY-CORNARD RD SP River Stour 0 0h -
Anglian Water HADLEIGH STW River Brett 0 0h -
Anglian Water WOOLVERSTONE-MARINA TPS River Orwell 0 0h -
Anglian Water HOLBROOK STW Holbrook Stream 0 0h -
Anglian Water East Bergholt WRC Gosnalls Brook River Stour 0 0h -
Anglian Water IPSWICH-CLIFF QUAY RAEBURN ST Tidal River Orwell 0 0h -
Anglian Water LAWSHALL-HARROWS TRIANGLE SP River Lark 0 0h -
Anglian Water Brantham Factory Lane OV River Stour 0 0h -
Anglian Water HOLBROOK STW Holbrook Creek Estuary Stour 0 0h -

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.

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.