Wells and Mendip Hills was polluted by sewage 1,891 times in 2023
lasting 21,016 hours - that's 2.43 years!

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Totals for Wells and Mendip Hills in 2023

40 Sites polluted by Wessex Water

1,891 sewage dumps
21,016 h duration

That's 2.43 years! On average 5.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Constituencies near Wells and Mendip Hills

Waterways in Wells and Mendip Hills

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Wells and Mendip Hills 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 46 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 Axe	WOOKEY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	217	3,696	99.9
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	SHEPTON MALLET WWTW	108	1,943	100
Wessex Water	Nidon Rhyne	BROADMEAD LANE PUMP STATION	89	1,901	99.8
Wessex Water	Lox Yeo	WINSCOMBE WWTW	115	1,795	100
Wessex Water	River Brue	MEARE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	91	1,344	100
Wessex Water	Whitelake	PILTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	60	1,220	91.4
Wessex Water	Dolmead Rhyne	DRAYCOTT AND RODNEYSTOKE STW	63	1,203	100
Wessex Water	Cheddar Yeo	CHEDDAR WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	77	1,199	100
Wessex Water	Sth Drain- Lwr Brue	SHAPWICK PUMPING STATION	66	1,171	99.4
Wessex Water	Langford Brook	LANGFORD PUMPING STATION	60	1,039	99.9
Wessex Water	Nidon Brook	GOOSE LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	142	675	99.7
Wessex Water	Congresbury Yeo	BLAGDON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	37	579	99.7
Wessex Water	Cheddar Yeo	CLIFF STREET/REDCLIFFE STREET CSO	53	477	99.8
Wessex Water	Nidon Brook	CHILTON POLDEN PUMPING STATION	30	373	98
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	MILL LANE PUMPING STATION	75	352	100
Wessex Water	Sandmead Rhyne	SANDMEAD LANE PUMPING STATION	32	336	100
Wessex Water	Wells Moat Stream	WELLS STW	35	253	98.9
Wessex Water	Unknown	KINGSTON SEYMOUR WRC	49	235	100
Wessex Water	Landcourse Rhyne	WEDMORE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	57	187	99.9
Wessex Water	River Yeo	FROGLANDS PUMPING STATION	83	174	100
Wessex Water	Wellow Brook	TERRACE WOOD CSO	88	171	95.8
Wessex Water	Helliers Stream Via Sws	41 WIDEATTS ROAD CSO	16	109	100
Wessex Water	Greinton Rhyne	PEDWELL PUMPING STATION	26	94	99.2
Wessex Water	Cross Rhyne	CROSS EAST PUMPING STATION	19	90	99.8
Wessex Water	River Axe	GLEN COTTAGE CSO	56	88	99.9
Wessex Water	Lower River Axe	BLEADNEY MILL PUMPING STATION	9	74	99.8
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	COXLEY RIPPLE PUMPING STATION	8	71	100
Wessex Water	St Andrews Stream	PRIORY HOSPITAL CSO	23	25	95.2
Wessex Water	Kings Sedgemoor Drain	SUTTON MALLET PUMPING STATION	4	22	100
Wessex Water	Wellow Brook	HOME FARM CSO	31	19	75.5
Wessex Water	Towerhead Brook	SANDFORD BATCH PS	6	16	99.9
Wessex Water	River Axe	AXE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	4	14	99.6
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	LONG STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	15	13	96.3
Wessex Water	River Axe Via Sws	KENNEL BATCH CSO	5	12	100
Wessex Water	Greinton Rhyne Drain	GREINTON WASTEWATER PUMPING STATION	4	12	100
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	SUNNY MOUNT CSO	16	10	71.7
Wessex Water	Axe Link Rhtne To River Yeo	LOXTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS (NEW)	1	4	100
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	CATS ASH COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	17	2	99.8
Wessex Water	River Sheppey Via Sws	FOSSE LANE PS	2	0	100
Wessex Water	Unnamed Rhyne	GILLS LANE PS	2	0	99.9
Wessex Water	Ellenge Stream	AXBRIDGE PUMPING STATION	0	0	99.6
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	CROSCOMBE STW	0	0	99.8
Wessex Water	Small Moor Rhyne	WALTON GLOBE PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Wessex Water	River Sheppey	MANOR HOUSE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	99.5
Wessex Water	River Sheppey Via Sws	CHARLTON ROAD CSO	0	0	100
Wessex Water	Groundwater Via Infilt System	SHAFTGATE AVENUE CSO	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

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