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Polluted by sewage 113 times in 2025 lasting 248 hours
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Southend West and Leigh 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 1 of the total 8 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglian Water | Thames Estuary | SOUTHEND SEWAGE WORKS | 94 | 236 | 27.9 |
| Anglian Water | Prittle Brook | SOUTHEND-PRINCE AVE (BELL PUB) CSO | 7 | 6 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Eastwood Brook | EASTWOOD PARK | 6 | 3 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Prittle Brook | SOUTHEND- RIORY CRESCENT CSO | 2 | 1 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Prittle Brook | OVERFLOW OUTLET AT THE CIVIC CENTRE | 2 | 0 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Prittle Brook | SOUTHEND - ROCHFORD ROAD CSO | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Prittle Brook | SOUTHEND 21-27 SHAKESPEARE AVE CSO | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Prittle Brook | PAVILION DRIVE CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
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.
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