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Braintree - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 3,903 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 4,275 hours , potential overflows 1,189 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Braintree so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 1,107 hours , 1,697 offline
Feb - 1,486 hours , 672 offline
Mar - 576 hours , 744 offline
Apr - 518 hours , 720 offline
May - 186 hours , 441 offline
Jun - 19 hours
Jul - 0 hours
Aug - 6 hours , 354 potential
Sept - 1 hours , 834 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Anglian Water TOPPESFIELD STW Toppesfield Brook River Colne 94 1,369h 6m -
Anglian Water BOCKING STW River Blackwater 35 689h 45m -
Anglian Water Steeple Bumpstead Sewage Treatment Works Bumpstead Brook River Stour N 41 477h 51m -
Anglian Water STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD-LILLEY TPS Bumpstead Brook 23 394h 580 h
Anglian Water BRAINTREE STW River Brain 19 269h 59m -
Anglian Water STURMER-KEDINGTON RD TPS Bumpstead Brook 14 185h 13m -
Anglian Water BRAINTREE STW River Brain 14 170h 50m -
Anglian Water GOSFIELD STW Bourne Brook River Colne 9 102h 43m -
Anglian Water Felsted Sewage Treatment Works Stebbing Brook River Chelmer N 5 69h 14m -
Anglian Water RAYNE STW Pods Brook River Brain 9 53h 30m -
Anglian Water Wethersfield Sewage Treatment Works River Pant 7 42h 8m -
Anglian Water CASTLE HEDINGHAM-QUEEN ST OV River Colne 3 24h 45m -
Anglian Water BRAINTREE-NOTLEY RD SP River Brain 9 23h 39m 304 h
Anglian Water STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD-BLOIS RD TPS Bumpstead Brook 4 15h 647 h
Anglian Water HALSTEAD-PARSONS BRIDGE NO 2 River Colne 6 8h 44m -
Anglian Water Braintree-Skitts Mill Outlet B River Brain 6 3h 38m 610 h
Anglian Water GT YELDHAM-POOLE ST SM River Colne 1 1h 55m 3,321 h
Anglian Water Sible Hedingham -Alderford Street CSO River Colne 2 1h 15m -
Anglian Water RAYNE-TPS Pods Brook 1 0h 23m -
Anglian Water GT YELDHAM-POOLE ST SM River Colne 0 0h -
Anglian Water Steeple Bumpstead Sewage Treatment Works Bumpstead Brook River Stour N 0 0h -
Anglian Water SIBLE HEDINGHAM STW River Colne 0 0h -
Anglian Water Felsted Sewage Treatment Works Stebbing Brook River Chelmer N 0 0h -
Anglian Water CASTLE HEDINGHAM-QUEEN ST OV River Colne 0 0h -
Anglian Water Braintree-Skitts Mill Outlet B River Brain 0 0h -
Anglian Water Braintree-Rose Hill CSO River Brain 0 0h -
Anglian Water BURES HAMLET-SP River Stour 0 0h -
Anglian Water RAYNE-TPS Pods Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water SIBLE HEDINGHAM STW River Colne 0 0h -
Anglian Water BURES HAMLET-SP River Stour 0 0h -
Anglian Water BRAINTREE-NOTLEY RD CSO River Brain 0 0h -
Anglian Water BRAINTREE-NOTLEY RD CSO River Brain 0 0h -
Anglian Water BRAINTREE-NOTLEY RD SP River Brain 0 0h -
Anglian Water BRAINTREE STW River Brain 0 0h -
Anglian Water STURMER-KEDINGTON RD TPS Bumpstead Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water BOCKING-BRADFORD BRG (NEW) TPS River Blackwater 0 0h -
Anglian Water GREAT SAMPFORD STW River Pant 0 0h -
Anglian Water GREAT SAMPFORD STW River Pant 0 0h -
Anglian Water RAYNE STW Pods Brook River Brain 0 0h -
Anglian Water BOCKING STW River Blackwater 0 0h -
Anglian Water Sible Hedingham -Alderford Street CSO River Colne 0 0h -
Anglian Water HALSTEAD-PARSONS BRIDGE NO 2 River Colne 0 0h -
Anglian Water Wethersfield Sewage Treatment Works River Pant 0 0h -
Anglian Water GOSFIELD STW Bourne Brook River Colne 0 0h -
Anglian Water BRAINTREE STW River Brain 0 0h -
Anglian Water TOPPESFIELD STW Toppesfield Brook River Colne 0 0h -
Anglian Water STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD-LILLEY TPS Bumpstead Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD-BLOIS RD TPS Bumpstead Brook 0 0h -
Anglian Water BOCKING-CHURCH STREET SSO River Pant 0 0h -
Anglian Water BOCKING-BRADFORD BRG (NEW) TPS River Blackwater 0 0h -

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.