River Wensum polluted by sewage 487 times in 2024 - lasting 2,410 hours

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Totals for River Wensum in 2024
19 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
487 sewage dumps
2,410 h duration
That's 3.35 months. On average 1.3 times a day

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Wensum in 2024. 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 Wensum FAKENHAM (OLD AND NEW) WRC 42 843 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORTH ELMHAM STW 57 680 100
Anglian Water River Wensum BYLAUGH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 25 455 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH ANGEL ROAD CSO 30 102 22.6
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - KETTS HILL CSO 61 94 100
Anglian Water River Wensum KING STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 57 71 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH LOWER CLOSE (FERRY LN) CSO 76 63 99.8
Anglian Water River Wensum DRAYTON RD NO 3/BOOTBINDER ROAD CSO 17 35 97.3
Anglian Water River Wensum GIBRALTAR GARDENS CSO 6 31 99.3
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH CEDAR ROAD CSO 31 7 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - PRINCE OF WALES ROAD CSO 25 7 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH ST FAITHS LANE CSO 26 6 97.3
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - KING STREET #2 CSO 14 5 100
Anglian Water River Wensum FAKENHAM NORWICH ROAD CSO 10 3 100
Anglian Water River Wensum SCHOOL LANE / BEDFORD STREET CSO 3 0 11.6
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - BARRACK STREET CSO 3 0 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - RIVER LANE CSO 2 0 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH RECORDER ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - ROSARY ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH OAK LANE CSO 0 0 99.8
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH CARROW ROAD CSO 0 0 99.4
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - CHALK HILL ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH COW TOWER CSO 0 0 0
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - NEW MILLS CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - ELM HILL CSO 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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