Wells polluted by sewage 778 times in 2022 - lasting 4,412 hours

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Totals for Wells in 2022

43 Sites polluted by Wessex Water

778 sewage dumps
4,412 h duration

That's 6.13 months. On average 2.1 times a day

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Waterways in Wells

Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Wells in 2022. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Wessex Water	River Axe	WOOKEY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	63	1,106	95.45
Wessex Water	River Brue	MEARE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	59	614	100
Wessex Water	Glast Mill Stream	GLASTONBURY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	48	511	100
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	SHEPTON MALLET WWTW	36	426	100
Wessex Water	Cheddar Yeo	CHEDDAR WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	38	424	100
Wessex Water	Whitelake	PILTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	23	382	96.6
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	MILL LANE PUMPING STATION	54	204	96.9
Wessex Water	Somer Stream	CHILCOMPTON WWTW	74	171	100
Wessex Water	South Drain	STREET MAIN PS	29	109	100
Wessex Water	Wellow Brook	TERRACE WOOD CSO	49	67	100
Wessex Water	Landcourse Rhyne	WEDMORE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	22	63	99.8
Wessex Water	River Brue Mill Stream	MANHOLE 11, & PORCHESTAL SPS	18	56	87.8
Wessex Water	Wells Moat Stream	WELLS STW	9	40	99
Wessex Water	Unknown	MIDDLE BROOKS ROAD PUMPING STATION	4	24	75.6
Wessex Water	River Brue	ACTIS PUMPING STATION	5	19	100
Wessex Water	River Axe	GLEN COTTAGE CSO	21	17	91.2
Wessex Water	Rivr Sheppey	WELLS ROAD PS	7	16	99.8
Wessex Water	River Brue	HIGHBRIDGE PUMPING STATION	12	16	99.85
Wessex Water	South Drain	FARM LANE CSO	14	15	99.4
Wessex Water	River Yeo	FROGLANDS PUMPING STATION	34	12	100
Wessex Water	Mells Stream	OAKHILL WWTW	3	12	98.9
Wessex Water	Cheddar Yeo	CLIFF STREET/REDCLIFFE STREET CSO	15	10	100
Wessex Water	Upper River Brue	MILLFIELD SCHOOL PS	9	9	100
Wessex Water	Bullmead Ditch	FORD STREAM CSO	14	9	100
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	LONG STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	11	7	80
Wessex Water	Mells Stream	GURNEY SLADE PUMPING STATION	5	7	76.1
Wessex Water	St Andrews Stream	PRIORY HOSPITAL CSO	13	6	98.3
Wessex Water	Helliers Stream Via Sws	41 WIDEATTS ROAD CSO	8	6	100
Wessex Water	Glastonbury Millstream	MANOR HOUSE ROAD CSO	13	5	100
Wessex Water	Wellow Brook	HOME FARM CSO	15	5	69.7
Wessex Water	Glastonbury Mill Stream	NORTHLOAD BRIDGE PUMPING STATION	1	4	58.2
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	COXLEY RIPPLE PUMPING STATION	2	4	99.8
Wessex Water	Lower River Axe	BLEADNEY MILL PUMPING STATION	1	3	100
Wessex Water	Bullmead Ditch	HOUNDSWOOD DRIVE PS	4	3	47.1
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	SUNNY MOUNT CSO	13	3	100
Wessex Water	South Drain	GLASTON ROAD CSO	9	3	100
Wessex Water	River Axe	AXE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	4	1	83.1
Wessex Water	A Local Ditch	ST ANDREWS SCHOOL COMBINED SEWER	3	1	100
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	CATS ASH COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	10	1	90.6
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	MANOR HOUSE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	3	0	100
Wessex Water	Old Rhyne Via Sws	STRODE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	1	0	100
Wessex Water	River Sheppey Via Sws	FOSSE LANE PS	1	0	100
Wessex Water	Groundwater Via Infilt System	SHAFTGATE AVENUE CSO	1	0	99.9
Wessex Water	Small Moor Rhyne	WALTON GLOBE PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Wessex Water	Dolmead Rhyne	DRAYCOTT AND RODNEYSTOKE STW	0	0	0
Wessex Water	River Sheppey Via Sws	CHARLTON ROAD CSO	0	0	99.9
Wessex Water	Ellenge Stream	AXBRIDGE PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Wessex Water	River Axe Via Sws	KENNEL BATCH CSO	0	0	0
Wessex Water	Unnamed Rhyne	GILLS LANE PS	0	0	0
Wessex Water	Cross Rhyne	CROSS EAST PUMPING STATION	0	0	99.8
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	CROSCOMBE STW	0	0	100
Wessex Water	Glastonbury Mill Stream	WIRRAL PARK PUMPING STATION	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

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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Wells polluted by sewage 778 times in 2022 - lasting 4,412 hours

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