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Suffolk Coastal

Polluted by sewage 302 times in 2025 lasting 596 hours

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Live data for Suffolk Coastal in 2026

So far this year (as of 5 Sept 2026, 06:45) there has been 382 hours of sewage overflows, from 51 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Suffolk Coastal in 2025

19 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
302 sewage dumps
596 hours duration
That's 3.55 weeks. 5.8 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Suffolk Coastal 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 Leiston Beck LEISTON VALLEY ROAD WRC 16 214 86.8
Anglian Water Leiston Beck CSO'S IN LEISTON 68 101 94.3
Anglian Water River Deben WOODBRIDGE QUAYSIDE TPS 18 97 99.9
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - VALLEY ROAD/CROWN STREET 46 49 82.35
Anglian Water Tidal River Blyth SOUTHWOLD WRC 25 38 100
Anglian Water North Sea ALDEBURGH STW 32 33 100
Anglian Water River Deben WOODBRIDGE STATION ROAD CSO 7 24 100
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - WATERLOO AVENUE/PARK HILL 15 12 82.8
Anglian Water River Deben Tidal WOODBRIDGE DEBEN ROAD CSO 17 7 100
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - WATERLOO PARK CSO 11 7 81.1
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - WATERLOO AVE/PARK HILL #2 5 2 82.3
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - WATERLOO AVENUE CSO 7 1 82.3
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - MAIN STREET #2 CSO 5 1 94.6
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - MAIN STREET #3 CSO 5 1 82.9
Anglian Water River Fynn MARTLESHAM BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 6 1 100
Anglian Water Buss Creek SOUTHWOLD MARLBOROUGH RD CSO 13 0 96.9
Anglian Water Martlesham Creek WOODBRIDGE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 3 0 100
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - MAIN STREET #1 CSO 2 0 82.8
Anglian Water Buss Creek SOUTHWOLD STATION ROAD PS 1 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. 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.

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