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Avonmouth

Polluted by sewage 418 times in 2025 lasting 2,033 hours

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Totals for Avonmouth in 2025

17 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
418 sewage dumps
2,033 hours duration
That's 2.82 months. On average 1.1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Avonmouth in 2025. 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 place all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water Severn Estuary AVONMOUTH STW 67 865 100
Wessex Water Unknown PORTBURY WHARF STW 83 721 100
Wessex Water River Avon WEST TOWN ROAD PUMPING STATION 55 131 100
Wessex Water River Avon WEST TOWN ROAD PUMPING STATION 14 65 100
Wessex Water River Avon AVON ROAD PUMPING STATION 26 64 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws LOWER HIGH STREET CSO 13 59 98.5
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws PORTWAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 47 44 100
Wessex Water River Severn Via Sws QUEEN STREET CSO 6 21 99.8
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws AVONMOUTH ROAD CSO 36 18 100
Wessex Water Bristol Avon AVONMOUTH 'B' PUMPING STATION 5 11 100
Wessex Water River Severn Estuary Via Sws THIRD WAY CSO 2 11 89
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws 5 SPRINGFIELD AVENUE CSO 24 7 98.3
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws OLD PARK RD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 19 4 100
Wessex Water River Avon AVONMOUTH WAY COMBINED SEWER OF 3 4 76.8
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws 7 SPRINGFIELD AVENUE CSO 12 2 98.5
Wessex Water River Avon WATLING WAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 5 1 100
Wessex Water River Avon LAMPLIGHTERS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 1 0 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws LOWER HIGH STREET CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Portbury Drove Rhyne PORTBURY DROVE PUMPING STATION 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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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