Lowestoft was polluted by sewage 375 times in 2024
lasting 803 hours

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Totals for Lowestoft in 2024
16 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
375 sewage dumps
803 h duration
That's 1.12 months. On average 1 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Lowestoft 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 18 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 Kessingland Hundred River KESSINGLAND WRC 20 257 99.3
Anglian Water North Sea NESS POINT PUMPING STATION 99 172 100
Anglian Water River Waveney T BECCLES WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 38 131 98.8
Anglian Water River Waveney BECCLES - COMMON LANE TERMINAL PS 25 62 100
Anglian Water North Sea CORTON BAKERS SCORE PUMPING STATION 32 59 100
Anglian Water Inner Harbour ST PETERS STREET CSO 44 43 100
Anglian Water Inner Harbour ROTTERDAM ROAD #2 CSO 40 32 100
Anglian Water North Sea NESS POINT PUMPING STATION 9 13 100
Anglian Water Unnamed River Waveney BECCLES - CAXTON SPORTS GROUND CSO 12 9 100
Anglian Water River Waveney BECCLES - INGATE SSO 15 8 100
Anglian Water Inner Harbour ST PETERS ST AND NEWSONS MEADOW CSO 13 4 100
Anglian Water Waveney Dock LOWESTOFT MARINA CSO 16 3 100
Anglian Water North Sea CORTON - CHURCH LANE TPS 3 2 100
Anglian Water Inner Harbour YEOVIL ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 4 1 100
Anglian Water Lake Lothing OULTON BROAD-HOLLY ROAD TERMINAL PS 4 0 100
Anglian Water Inner Harbour ROTTERDAM ROAD #1 CSO 1 0 100
Anglian Water Inner Harbour NORWICH ROAD CSO'S (#1 & #2) 0 0 100
Anglian Water North Sea Via Outer Harbour ROYAL NORFOLK & SUFFOLK YACHT CLUB 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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