River Wensum polluted by sewage 398 times in 2023 - lasting 1,089 hours

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Totals for River Wensum in 2023
20 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
398 sewage dumps
1,089 h duration
That's 1.51 months. On average 1.1 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Wensum 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 Wensum NORTH ELMHAM STW 31 230 99
Anglian Water River Wensum BYLAUGH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 18 200 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH ANGEL ROAD CSO 13 150 94.5
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - KETTS HILL CSO 63 143 94.3
Anglian Water River Wensum FAKENHAM (OLD AND NEW) WRC 12 119 100
Anglian Water River Wensum KING STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 66 87 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH ST FAITHS LANE CSO 52 46 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - PRINCE OF WALES ROAD CSO 57 36 99.9
Anglian Water River Wensum GIBRALTAR GARDENS CSO 13 35 99.9
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - KING STREET #2 CSO 16 14 99.8
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH CARROW ROAD CSO 12 8 51.5
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH CEDAR ROAD CSO 14 3 55.7
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - RIVER LANE CSO 5 3 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - BARRACK STREET CSO 7 2 97.5
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH LOWER CLOSE (FERRY LN) CSO 8 2 89.4
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH RECORDER ROAD CSO 4 1 99.8
Anglian Water River Wensum SCHOOL LANE / BEDFORD STREET CSO 2 1 60.8
Anglian Water River Wensum FAKENHAM NORWICH ROAD CSO 2 0 98.9
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - ELM HILL CSO 2 0 37.9
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - NEW MILLS CSO 1 0 93.7
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH OAK LANE CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Wensum DRAYTON RD NO 3/BOOTBINDER ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - ROSARY ROAD CSO 0 0 99.5
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - PEACOCK STREET CSO 0 0 0
Anglian Water River Wensum CHRISTCHURCH RD / UNTHANK RD CSO 0 0 0
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - BISHOPBRIDGE ROAD CSO 0 0 0
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH - CHALK HILL ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH COW TOWER CSO 0 0 76.9
Anglian Water River Wensum NORWICH RIVERSIDE CSO 0 0 0

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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