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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Tower Hamlets 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 % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thames Water | River Thames | DEPTFORD STORM RELIEF, LONDON | 3 | 46 | 99.8 |
| Thames Water | River Thames | GREENWICH PS, GREENWICH, LONDON | 4 | 26 | 99.8 |
| Thames Water | Thames | NIGHTINGALE LANE CSO | 38 | 25 | 100 |
| Thames Water | River Thames | IRONGATE SEWER, LONDON | 28 | 15 | 100 |
| Thames Water | River Thames | LOWER THAMES STREET, BEER LANE, LON | 24 | 9 | 100 |
| Thames Water | River Thames | EARL PS STORM OUTLET, LONDON | 2 | 4 | 100 |
| Thames Water | Tidal Thames | LONDON BRIDGE CSO | 7 | 3 | 100 |
| Thames Water | River Thames | SHAD, THAMES PS, LONDON | 2 | 2 | 100 |
| Thames Water | Tidal Thames | N E Sr Shadwell, King Edward Mem Pa | 2 | 1 | 100 |
| Thames Water | River Thames | ISLE OF DOGS PUMPING STATION CSO | 24 | 0 | 100 |
| Thames Water | River Thames | GOSWELL STREET, S. BRANCH SEWER, LO | 2 | 0 | 95.2 |
| Thames Water | Tidal Riverthames | BELL WHARF OUTLET, LONDON | 0 | 0 | 99.9 |
| Thames Water | River Thames | HOLLOWAY STORM SEWER, LONDON | 0 | 0 | 98.3 |
| Thames Water | Tidal Thames | RATCLIFFE HIGHWAY LIMEKILN CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.6 |
| Thames Water | River Thames | WAPPING DOCK, GUN WHARF, LONDON | 0 | 0 | 99.8 |
| Thames Water | River Lee | ABBEY MILLS PUMPING STATION, STRATF | 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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