Waltham Forest

Polluted by sewage 115 times in 2025 lasting 389 hours

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Totals for Waltham Forest in 2025

8 Sites polluted by Thames Water

115 sewage dumps

389 hours duration

Sewage pollution map of Waltham Forest — Sewage pollution map of Waltham Forest: 389 hours in 2025

That's 2.32 weeks. 2.2 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Waltham Forest 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	Dagenham Brook	St Andrews Road, Black Horse Lane	6	113	99.3
Thames Water	Ching Brook	BEECH HALL CRESCENT CSO	43	103	100
Thames Water	Hennikers Ditch	Mulberry Court, Hall Road	41	68	99.6
Thames Water	Salmon Brook	DEEPHAMS WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	6	55	92.6
Thames Water	Dagenham Brook	WALTHAMSTOW, LOW HALL FARM STORM TA	5	30	100
Thames Water	Dagenham Brook	AUCKLAND ROAD PUMPING STATION TANKS	2	10	99.9
Thames Water	River Roding	CSO AT HIGH ROAD	9	6	100
Thames Water	Roding	NUTTER LANE / PRESTON DRIVE CSO	3	2	100
Thames Water	Lee	Chingford Storm Tanks	0	0	100
Thames Water	River Lee	MARKFIELD PARK CSO / STONEBRIDGE BK	0	0	99.9

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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