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Portishead

Polluted by sewage 370 times in 2024 lasting 1,262 hours

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Totals for Portishead in 2024

7 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
370 sewage dumps
1,262 hours duration
That's 1.75 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 Portishead 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 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 Unknown PORTBURY WHARF STW 158 566 100
Wessex Water Severn Estuary BLACK NORE (NAUTICAL SCHOOL) PS 45 205 100
Wessex Water Portbury Ditch HARBOUR ROAD CSO 26 152 100
Wessex Water River Severn 35 HILLSIDE ROAD CSO 53 119 96.4
Wessex Water Portbury Ditch, PORTISHEAD TOWN PUMPING STATION 23 110 100
Wessex Water Estuary LAKE ROAD PUMPING STATION 15 71 97.1
Wessex Water Portbury Ditch SLADE ROAD/COMBE ROAD CSO 50 37 99.9
Wessex Water Portbury Via Sws BRAMPTON WAY COMBINED SEWER O'FLOW 0 0 97.2

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.

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