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Taunton and Wellington was polluted by sewage 1,174 times in 2023
lasting 10,111 hours - that's 1.17 years!

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Totals for Taunton and Wellington in 2023

37 Sites polluted by South West Water, Wessex Water

1,174 sewage dumps
10,111 h duration

That's 1.17 years! On average 3.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Constituencies near Taunton and Wellington

Waterways in Taunton and Wellington

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Taunton and Wellington in 2023. 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 43 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 %
Wessex Water	River Tone	BRADFORD ON TONE WWTW	154	1,872	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	LANGFORD LANE PUMPING STATION	67	1,194	88.4
Wessex Water	River Tone	PRIORY STORM TANKS	102	964	100
Wessex Water	Fivehead River	HATCH BEAUCHAMP WRC	199	964	99.9
Wessex Water	Sedgemoor Old Rhyne	MEARE GREEN WRANTAGE PS	55	956	99.7
Wessex Water	Old River Tone	MAIDENBROOK LANE CSO	64	541	96.7
Wessex Water	Sedgemoor Old Rhyne	STOKE ROAD PUMPING STATION	52	464	89.2
Wessex Water	Black Brook	HENLADE PUMPING STATION	34	457	98.5
Wessex Water	River Tone	WELLINGTON WWTW	48	361	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	HYDE LANE PUMPING STATION	47	333	99.9
Wessex Water	Haywards Water	HOCKHOLLER PUMPING STATION	91	329	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	TONE GREEN PUMPING STATION	18	283	91.7
Wessex Water	Allen'S Brook	ALLENS BROOK CSO	17	213	82.2
Wessex Water	Haywards Water	MITCHELS POOL PUMPING STATION	33	201	99.9
Wessex Water	River Tone	TAUNTON MARKET CSO	22	175	99.7
Wessex Water	Tidal River Tone	STOKE ST GREGORY STW	7	114	99.9
Wessex Water	Back Stream	NAILSBOURNE PUMPING STATION	21	108	100
Wessex Water	Fivehead River	HATCH BEAUCHANP PUMPING STATION	18	75	90.4
Wessex Water	River Tone Via Sws	1A SHUTEWATER CLOSE PUMPING STATION	6	61	99.6
Wessex Water	Westford Stream	WESTFORD PUMPING STATION	13	60	99.5
Wessex Water	River Tone	WEST BUCKLAND PUMPING STATION	7	57	100
Wessex Water	Sherford Stream	TAUNTON TRULL EAST BROOK CSO	15	54	99.7
Wessex Water	West Sedgemoor M Drain	WOODHILL PUMPING STATION	6	52	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	BARTON LANE PUMPING STATION	4	42	100
South West Water	River Otter	CHURCHINFORD STW	13	40	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	NORTH CURRY MAIN PUMPING STATION	16	38	99.6
Wessex Water	River Tone	MOUNTWAY BISHOPS HULL CSO	9	24	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	NORTH END PUMPING STATION	4	21	100
Wessex Water	Broughton Brook	MILL LANE NO. 2 CSO	9	13	99.5
Wessex Water	River Tone	CURLOAD PUMPING STATION	11	13	99.9
Wessex Water	- Sedgemoor Old Rhyne	MEARE GREEN STOKE ST GREGORY PS	1	8	100
Wessex Water	Storm Culvert	LANE END PUMPING STATION	2	7	100
Wessex Water	Black Brook	STOKE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	2	1	99.7
Wessex Water	River Tone Via Sws	STATION MILLS CSO	2	1	98.8
Wessex Water	Haymoor Main Drain Sws	WINDMILL HILL COMBINED SEWER OF	3	0	99.9
Wessex Water	Ditch	QUEEN SQUARE CSO	1	0	100
Wessex Water	Unknown	BRIDGWATER ROAD CSO	1	0	89.6
Wessex Water	Kingston Stream	LONGACRE CLOSE PS	0	0	100
Wessex Water	Galmington Stream Via Sws	NEWBARN PARK CSO	0	0	99.9
Wessex Water	Back Stream Via Sws	THE BASINS SEWER CSO	0	0	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	MAIDENBROOK PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Wessex Water	Gaol Stream Via Sws	WILTON ORCHARD CAR PARK CSO	0	0	100
Wessex Water	Unnamed Stream	RUMWELL SEWAGE P. STN	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.

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