Southend West and Leigh was polluted by sewage 82 times in 2024
lasting 240 hours

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✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023

Live data for Southend West and Leigh in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 5:30 PM) there has been 2,432 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Southend West and Leigh in 2024

7 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

82 sewage dumps
240 h duration

That's 10 days. 1.6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Southend West and Leigh

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Southend West and Leigh, 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 Southend West and Leigh 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 9 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	Thames Estuary	SOUTHEND SEWAGE WORKS	43	196	100
Anglian Water	Thames Estuary	SOUTHEND PRITTLE BROOK STORAGE TANK	8	16	100
Anglian Water	Prittle Brook	SOUTHEND-PRINCE AVE (BELL PUB) CSO	13	15	100
Anglian Water	Eastwood Brook	EASTWOOD PARK	14	9	100
Anglian Water	Prittle Brook	SOUTHEND - ROCHFORD ROAD CSO	2	1	100
Anglian Water	Prittle Brook	OVERFLOW OUTLET AT THE CIVIC CENTRE	1	0	100
Anglian Water	Prittle Brook	PAVILION DRIVE CSO	1	0	100
Anglian Water	Prittle Brook	SOUTHEND 21-27 SHAKESPEARE AVE CSO	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Prittle Brook	SOUTHEND- RIORY CRESCENT CSO	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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Analysing sewage pollution by the Water Industry

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