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River Colne polluted by sewage 431 times in 2023 - lasting 3,778 hours

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Totals for River Colne in 2023
19 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
431 sewage dumps
3,778 h duration
That's 5.25 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Colne 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 River Colne FORD STREET T.P.S. 80 880 97.6
Anglian Water River Colne EARLS COLNE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 37 566 100
Anglian Water River Colne WEST BERGHOLT STW 31 559 99.8
Anglian Water River Colne HALSTEAD (LANGLEY) WRC 59 504 100
Anglian Water River Colne EIGHT ASH GREEN STW 49 490 100
Anglian Water River Colne BROOK ROAD PS 28 255 100
Anglian Water River Colne GREAT YELDHAM - POOLE STREET CSO 19 139 100
Anglian Water River Colne SIBLE HEDINGHAM STW 23 116 100
Anglian Water River Colne COLCHESTER - REGENT COURT CSO 26 109 87.9
Anglian Water River Colne COLCHESTER-SPRING LANE CSO 6 95 100
Anglian Water River Colne CASTLE HEDINGHAM - QUEEN ST CSO 4 21 95.9
Anglian Water River Colne SIBLE HEDINGHAM - ALDERFORD ST CSO 9 13 97.4
Anglian Water River Colne EIGHT ASH GREEN - HEATHFIELDS SPS 4 9 100
Anglian Water River Colne EARLS COLNE CHURCH HILL #3 CSO 19 6 100
Anglian Water River Colne COLCHESTER-EAST BAY MAIN INT CSO 8 5 84.6
Anglian Water River Colne HYTHE BRIDGE 16 2 100
Anglian Water River Colne WATER SUPPLY BOREHOLES AT PARSONAGE 2 1 100
Anglian Water River Colne EARLS COLNE ST ANDREWS CHURCH CSO 5 1 100
Anglian Water River Colne COLCHESTER-ROWHEDGE ALBION ST. CSO 6 0 87.5
Anglian Water River Colne COLCHESTER-EAST BR (EAST) CSO OV 0 0 92.4
Anglian Water River Colne SSO HIGH ST HALSTEAD 0 0 0
Anglian Water River Colne THE HOME FARM AREA 0 0 0
Anglian Water River Colne EARLS COLNE 0 0 100

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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