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River Wensum polluted by sewage 176 times in 2025 - lasting 317 hours

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Totals for River Wensum in 2025
20 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
176 sewage dumps
317 h duration
That's 1.89 weeks. 3.4 times a week, on average
Places along River Wensum

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH CEDAR ROAD CSO 11 96 18.9
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - KETTS HILL CSO 35 50 94.6
Anglian Water River Wensum DRAYTON RD NO 3/BOOTBINDER ROAD CSO 16 43 85.5
Anglian Water River Wensum GIBRALTAR GARDENS CSO 8 28 95.3
Anglian Water River Wensum BYLAUGH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 3 25 100
Anglian Water River Wensum KING STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 26 23 99.7
Anglian Water River Wensum NORTH ELMHAM STW 3 22 99.8
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - KING STREET #2 CSO 20 9 97.8
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH LOWER CLOSE (FERRY LN) CSO 11 7 99.7
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - PRINCE OF WALES ROAD CSO 7 2 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - RIVER LANE CSO 6 2 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH CARROW ROAD CSO 3 2 20.2
Anglian Water River Wensum SCHOOL LANE / BEDFORD STREET CSO 4 1 39
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH ST FAITHS LANE CSO 6 1 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - BARRACK STREET CSO 3 1 89.7
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH ANGEL ROAD CSO 7 0 83
Anglian Water River Wensum FAKENHAM NORWICH ROAD CSO 1 0 97.2
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - CHALK HILL ROAD CSO 2 0 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - ROSARY ROAD CSO 2 0 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH RECORDER ROAD CSO 2 0 99.8
Anglian Water River Wensum FAKENHAM (OLD AND NEW) WRC 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH OAK LANE CSO 0 0 92.1
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - ELM HILL CSO 0 0 99.9
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - NEW MILLS CSO 0 0 99.3
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH COW TOWER 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. 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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