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River Waveney polluted by sewage 88 times in 2025 - lasting 292 hours

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Totals for River Waveney in 2025
8 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
88 sewage dumps
292 h duration
That's 1.74 weeks. 1.7 times a week, on average
Constituencies along River Waveney

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water River Waveney BEDFIELD CROWN LANE PUMPING STATION 11 168 100
Anglian Water River Waveney BECCLES - COMMON LANE TERMINAL PS 17 49 100
Anglian Water River Waveney DITCHINGHAM DAM (BUNGAY) SPS 18 46 100
Anglian Water River Waveney DISS WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 8 13 96.7
Anglian Water River Waveney BECCLES - INGATE SSO 10 6 100
Anglian Water River Waveney NETHERGATE STREET CSO 12 5 95.3
Anglian Water River Waveney BUNGAY ST JOHNS ROAD SSO 8 3 98.1
Anglian Water River Waveney EARSHAM STREET CSO 4 1 97.7
Anglian Water River Waveney HORHAM TERMINAL PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.2
Anglian Water River Waveney STRADBROKE(EX STW) PS 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Waveney SW & SSO MOUNT ST-DISS 0 0 81.2
Anglian Water River Waveney VICTORIA ROAD CSO 0 0 98.55

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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