Taunton and Wellington was polluted by sewage 1,009 times in 2024
lasting 9,724 hours - that's 1.13 years!

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Live data for Taunton and Wellington in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:15 PM) there has been 2,337 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.27 years!

Totals for Taunton and Wellington in 2024

36 Sites polluted by South West Water, Wessex Water

1,009 sewage dumps
9,724 h duration

That's 1.13 years! On average 2.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Taunton and Wellington

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Taunton and Wellington, 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 Taunton and Wellington 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 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	105	1,536	100
Wessex Water	Sedgemoor Old Rhyne	MEARE GREEN WRANTAGE PS	68	1,255	99.4
Wessex Water	River Tone	LANGFORD LANE PUMPING STATION	62	1,158	97.9
Wessex Water	River Tone	PRIORY STORM TANKS	97	1,023	100
Wessex Water	Sedgemoor Old Rhyne	STOKE ROAD PUMPING STATION	62	889	100
Wessex Water	Fivehead River	HATCH BEAUCHAMP WRC	72	515	99.9
Wessex Water	Black Brook	HENLADE PUMPING STATION	34	418	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	WELLINGTON WWTW	43	369	99.7
Wessex Water	River Tone	HYDE LANE PUMPING STATION	46	363	100
Wessex Water	Haywards Water	HOCKHOLLER PUMPING STATION	102	338	99.8
Wessex Water	River Tone	TAUNTON MARKET CSO	34	335	83.1
Wessex Water	Old River Tone	MAIDENBROOK LANE CSO	36	259	99.2
Wessex Water	Haywards Water	MITCHELS POOL PUMPING STATION	30	178	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	TONE GREEN PUMPING STATION	17	162	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	WEST BUCKLAND PUMPING STATION	18	143	100
Wessex Water	West Sedgemoor M Drain	WOODHILL PUMPING STATION	12	137	100
South West Water	River Otter	CHURCHINFORD STW	28	132	100
Wessex Water	Allen'S Brook	ALLENS BROOK CSO	17	106	99
Wessex Water	Fivehead River	HATCH BEAUCHANP PUMPING STATION	12	64	90.6
Wessex Water	Sherford Stream	TAUNTON TRULL EAST BROOK CSO	15	62	98.9
Wessex Water	River Tone	NORTH CURRY MAIN PUMPING STATION	18	52	99.9
Wessex Water	Tidal River Tone	STOKE ST GREGORY STW	5	44	99.7
Wessex Water	Back Stream	NAILSBOURNE PUMPING STATION	18	34	100
Wessex Water	Broughton Brook	MILL LANE NO. 2 CSO	10	25	99.6
Wessex Water	River Tone	BARTON LANE PUMPING STATION	3	25	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	MOUNTWAY BISHOPS HULL CSO	15	24	100
Wessex Water	Storm Culvert	LANE END PUMPING STATION	3	21	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	NORTH END PUMPING STATION	3	18	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	CURLOAD PUMPING STATION	8	12	100
Wessex Water	Westford Stream	WESTFORD PUMPING STATION	3	9	89.9
Wessex Water	River Tone Via Sws	1A SHUTEWATER CLOSE PUMPING STATION	2	2	99.8
Wessex Water	- Sedgemoor Old Rhyne	MEARE GREEN STOKE ST GREGORY PS	1	0	100
Wessex Water	Black Brook	STOKE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	5	0	99.8
Wessex Water	River Tone Via Sws	STATION MILLS CSO	2	0	99.2
Wessex Water	Haymoor Main Drain Sws	WINDMILL HILL COMBINED SEWER OF	2	0	87.1
Wessex Water	Ditch	QUEEN SQUARE CSO	1	0	99.5
Wessex Water	River Tone	MAIDENBROOK PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Wessex Water	Gaol Stream Via Sws	WILTON ORCHARD CAR PARK CSO	0	0	99.9
Wessex Water	Unnamed Stream	RUMWELL SEWAGE P. STN	0	0	100
Wessex Water	Back Stream Via Sws	THE BASINS SEWER CSO	0	0	99.7
Wessex Water	Kingston Stream	LONGACRE CLOSE PS	0	0	99.9
Wessex Water	Unknown	BRIDGWATER ROAD CSO	0	0	99.5
Wessex Water	Galmington Stream Via Sws	NEWBARN PARK CSO	0	0	99.9

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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