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River Tone polluted by sewage 233 times in 2025 - lasting 2,116 hours

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Totals for River Tone in 2025
14 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
233 sewage dumps
2,116 h duration
That's 2.94 months. 4.5 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water River Tone BRADFORD ON TONE WWTW 53 618 100
Wessex Water River Tone PRIORY STORM TANKS 52 511 100
Wessex Water River Tone LANGFORD LANE PUMPING STATION 23 318 100
Wessex Water River Tone WELLINGTON WWTW 31 222 100
Wessex Water River Tone TONE GREEN PUMPING STATION 12 195 96.8
Wessex Water River Tone HYDE LANE PUMPING STATION 19 151 100
Wessex Water River Tone WEST BUCKLAND PUMPING STATION 9 44 100
Wessex Water River Tone MOUNTWAY BISHOPS HULL CSO 11 20 99.9
Wessex Water River Tone NORTH CURRY MAIN PUMPING STATION 11 18 92.1
Wessex Water River Tone HILLCOMMON PUMPING STATION 5 8 100
Wessex Water River Tone CURLOAD PUMPING STATION 4 2 100
Wessex Water River Tone CHURCH ROAD PUMPING STATION 1 1 100
Wessex Water River Tone NORTH END PUMPING STATION 1 1 100
Wessex Water River Tone TAUNTON MARKET CSO 1 0 88
Wessex Water River Tone BARTON LANE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Tone MAIDENBROOK PUMPING STATION 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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