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North Sea polluted by sewage 881 times in 2023 - lasting 2,821 hours

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Totals for North Sea in 2023
27 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
881 sewage dumps
2,821 h duration
That's 3.92 months. On average 2.4 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North Sea in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON (HOLLAND HAVEN) WRC 131 681 97.05
Anglian Water North Sea CAISTER- HEADWORKS PS 106 562 100
Anglian Water North Sea MUNDESLEY-KNAPTON ROAD WRC 63 250 100
Anglian Water North Sea JAYWICK WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 69 248 99.4
Anglian Water North Sea ALDEBURGH STW 94 240 100
Anglian Water North Sea INGOLDMELLS WRC 50 178 99.4
Anglian Water North Sea NESS POINT PUMPING STATION 90 141 100
Anglian Water North Sea WEST RUNTON WATER LANE PUMPING ST. 33 94 94.8
Anglian Water North Sea WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE TERMINAL PS 39 93 100
Anglian Water North Sea CORTON BAKERS SCORE PUMPING STATION 43 76 100
Anglian Water North Sea CROMER WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 35 43 100
Anglian Water North Sea JAYWICK CLACTON 23 PARK SQUARE CSO 22 41 95.6
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON SEA FRONT / GUNFLEET CSO 4 34 100
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON WEST ROAD TERMINAL PS 11 27 100
Anglian Water North Sea NESS POINT PUMPING STATION 11 25 100
Anglian Water North Sea PROMENADE SEWER STORAGE TANK 24 23 100
Anglian Water North Sea MUNDESLEY - THE PROM PS 3 19 100
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON GOLF GREEN ROAD JAYWICK CSO 22 8 95.6
Anglian Water North Sea EAST RUNTON BEACH ROAD TERMINAL PS 6 8 100
Anglian Water North Sea SHERINGHM EBEACH SEW TK 2 5 97.3
Anglian Water North Sea QUEENS ROAD/ESPLANADE CSO 4 4 100
Anglian Water North Sea FRINTON - ESPLANADE/SECOND AVE CSO 2 3 100
Anglian Water North Sea CORTON - CHURCH LANE TPS 2 3 100
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON VICTORIA ROAD CSO 6 2 99.8
Anglian Water North Sea CROMER PROMENADE TERMINAL PS 5 0 100
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON COLLINGWOOD RD/WASH LN CSO 2 0 100
Anglian Water North Sea JAYWICK BROOKLANDS GARDENS PS 2 0 94.3
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON PARK ROAD/VICARAGE GRD CSO 0 0 96.1

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. This 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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