Taunton

Polluted by sewage 119 times in 2025 lasting 1,041 hours

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Totals for Taunton in 2025

9 Sites polluted by Wessex Water

119 sewage dumps

1,041 hours duration

Sewage pollution map of Taunton — Sewage pollution map of Taunton: 1,041 hours in 2025

That's 1.45 months. 2.3 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Taunton 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	River Tone	PRIORY STORM TANKS	52	511	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	LANGFORD LANE PUMPING STATION	23	318	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	HYDE LANE PUMPING STATION	19	151	100
Wessex Water	Old River Tone	MAIDENBROOK LANE CSO	8	30	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	MOUNTWAY BISHOPS HULL CSO	11	20	99.9
Wessex Water	Sherford Stream	TAUNTON TRULL EAST BROOK CSO	2	7	99.9
Wessex Water	River Tone Via Sws	1A SHUTEWATER CLOSE PUMPING STATION	1	1	99.9
Wessex Water	River Tone	TAUNTON MARKET CSO	1	0	88
Wessex Water	Black Brook	STOKE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	2	0	99.9
Wessex Water	River Tone	BARTON LANE PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Wessex Water	Unknown	BRIDGWATER ROAD CSO	0	0	95.3
Wessex Water	Kingston Stream	LONGACRE CLOSE PS	0	0	99.9
Wessex Water	River Tone	MAIDENBROOK PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Wessex Water	Galmington Stream Via Sws	NEWBARN PARK CSO	0	0	100
Wessex Water	Unnamed Stream	RUMWELL SEWAGE P. STN	0	0	99.9
Wessex Water	Gaol Stream Via Sws	WILTON ORCHARD CAR PARK 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

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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