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River Chew polluted by sewage 469 times in 2025 - lasting 4,862 hours

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Totals for River Chew in 2025
10 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
469 sewage dumps
4,862 h duration
That's 6.75 months. On average 1.3 times a day
Constituencies along River Chew
Places along River Chew

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water River Chew CHEW STOKE WATEWATER TREATMENT WORK 139 2,528 100
Wessex Water River Chew EAST HARPTREE WRC 99 1,283 100
Wessex Water River Chew COMPTON DANDO SEWAGE PUMPING STATIO 39 527 100
Wessex Water River Chew KEYNSHAM HIGH LEVEL PS 43 132 100
Wessex Water River Chew BISHOP SUTTON PUMPING STATION 62 117 100
Wessex Water River Chew STANTON DREW WRC 11 78 99.8
Wessex Water River Chew CHEW STOKE PUMPING STATION 50 74 100
Wessex Water River Chew KEYNSHAM LOW LEVEL PUMPING STATION 8 66 100
Wessex Water River Chew CHEW MAGNA PS 14 49 100
Wessex Water River Chew STANTON DREW PUMPING STATION 4 4 100

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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