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Polluted by sewage 65 times in 2025 lasting 348 hours
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Thundersley and South Benfleet 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 1 of the total 14 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglian Water | Benfleet Creek | SOUTH BENFLEET | 34 | 179 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Benfleet Creek | BENFLEET WATER RECYCLING CENTRE | 14 | 102 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | River Crouch | RUSH BOTTOM LANE & STANSFIELD RD | 8 | 52 | 97.5 |
| Anglian Water | Benfleet Creek | BENFLEET MARSH PUMPING STATION | 1 | 5 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | River Crouch | EVERSLEY RD/RUSHBOT.LN | 1 | 2 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Mill Fleet | HADLEIGH - CASTLE LANE SP | 1 | 2 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Benfleet Creek | RICHMON AVE CSO | 2 | 2 | 46.5 |
| Anglian Water | Common Watercourse No7 | CASTLE PT HI ROAD/SOUTHVIEW RD CSO | 1 | 1 | 93.1 |
| Anglian Water | River Crouch | JOTMANS LANE/HIGH ROAD CSO | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | River Crouch | LOWER CHURCH ROAD | 1 | 0 | 99.2 |
| Anglian Water | Common Watercourse No 7 | S BENFLEET- HALL FARM ROAD PS | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | River Crouch | RUSHBOTTOM LANE PS | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Rayleigh Brook | RAYLEIGH - WYBURNS AVENUE PS | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Eastwood Brook | RES. DEVLPT | 0 | 0 | 100 |
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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