Thames Estuary polluted by sewage 566 times in 2023 - lasting 1,803 hours

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Totals for Thames Estuary in 2023
18 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
566 sewage dumps
1,803 h duration
That's 2.5 months. On average 1.6 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Thames Estuary 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 Thames Estuary CANVEY ISLAND WRC 136 644 100
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND SEWAGE WORKS 112 481 100
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND - BELTON GARDENS PS 100 467 100
Anglian Water Thames Estuary TILBURY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 44 95 99.6
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND - BELTON GARDENS PS 63 33 100
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND - BELTON GARDENS PS 27 25 99.1
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND - BELTON GARDENS PS 36 19 94.97
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND - BELTON GARDENS PS 23 10 99.9
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND - BELTON GARDENS PS 1 8 81.6
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND - BELTON GARDENS PS 4 6 94.2
Anglian Water Thames Estuary ELIZABETH ROAD OUTFALL 4 4 99.8
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND - BELTON GARDENS PS 5 4 99.7
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND - BELTON GARDENS PS 1 0 100
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND - BELTON GARDENS PS 1 0 100
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND PRITTLE BROOK STORAGE TANK 3 0 99
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND PRITTLE BROOK STORAGE TANK 2 0 99.7
Anglian Water Thames Estuary CHALKWELL ESPLANADE OUTFALL 2 0 99.7
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND - BELTON GARDENS PS 2 0 100
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND - BELTON GARDENS PS 0 0 24.7
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND - BELTON GARDENS PS 0 0 0
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND - BELTON GARDENS PS 0 0 96.6
Anglian Water Thames Estuary SOUTHEND - BELTON GARDENS PS 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.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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