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Leiston Beck polluted by sewage 180 times in 2025 - lasting 391 hours

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Totals for Leiston Beck in 2025
10 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
180 sewage dumps
391 h duration
That's 2.33 weeks. 3.5 times a week, on average
Constituencies along Leiston Beck
Places along Leiston Beck

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Leiston Beck in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON VALLEY ROAD WRC 16 214 86.8
Anglian Water Leiston Beck CSO'S IN LEISTON 68 101 94.3
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - VALLEY ROAD/CROWN STREET 46 49 82.35
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - WATERLOO AVENUE/PARK HILL 15 12 82.8
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - WATERLOO PARK CSO 11 7 81.1
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - WATERLOO AVE/PARK HILL #2 5 2 82.3
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - WATERLOO AVENUE CSO 7 1 82.3
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - MAIN STREET #2 CSO 5 1 94.6
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - MAIN STREET #3 CSO 5 1 82.9
Anglian Water Leiston Beck LEISTON - MAIN STREET #1 CSO 2 0 82.8

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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