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Bridgwater

Polluted by sewage 348 times in 2025 lasting 2,482 hours

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Live data for Bridgwater in 2026

So far this year (as of 15 Oct 2026, 15:46) there has been 3,637 hours of sewage overflows, from 77 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Sewage without rain in Bridgwater

On 3 occasions since December 2024, no rain fell anywhere in Bridgwater for days — and its CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s discharged anyway.

27 Mar 2025 1 at once · 0h 16 Mar 2025 1 at once · 0h 5 May 2025 1 at once · 0h

Totals for Bridgwater in 2025

23 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
348 sewage dumps
2,482 hours duration
That's 3.45 months. 6.7 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Sewage pollution map of Bridgwater: 348 spills in 2025, lasting 2,482 hours, by Wessex Water
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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water Cannington Brook CANNINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 51 564 99.25
Wessex Water River Brue HIGHBRIDGE PUMPING STATION 33 444 99.7
Wessex Water Petherton Stream NORTH PETHERTON WRC 19 245 100
Wessex Water Fiddington Brook NETHER STOWEY WATER RECYCLING CENTR 19 219 100
Wessex Water River Parrett Estuary COMBWICH PUMPING STATION 25 209 100
Wessex Water Fiddington Book FIDDINGTON PS 15 136 100
Wessex Water Cossington Brook BROOKHAYES CSO 39 92 100
Wessex Water Cannington Brook SPAXTON PUMPING STATION 11 86 100
Wessex Water Brick Yard Rhyne V Sws PAWLETT PUMPING STATION 9 82 100
Wessex Water Sowy River SUMMERHEDGE PUMPING STATION 9 80 100
Wessex Water Cannington Brook MARSH LANE CSO 19 68 100
Wessex Water King Sedgemoors Drain STAWELL PUMPING STATION 7 45 100
Wessex Water Huntspill River MEADOW FARM PUMPING STATION 5 40 100
Wessex Water Unknown SLOWAY LANE PUMPING STATION 10 34 100
Wessex Water River Parrett TAUNTON ROAD PS 15 33 100
Wessex Water River Parrett CHILTON STREET(SALTLANDS) PS 15 27 100
Wessex Water River Parrett COLLEY LANE PUMPING STATION 11 27 100
Wessex Water River Parrett EAST QUAY PUMPING STATION 22 14 100
Wessex Water River Parrett BRISTOL ROAD S P STN 8 8 100
Wessex Water Crowpill Rhyne WEMBDON COMMON PUMPING STATION 2 6 100
Wessex Water Un-Named PURITON SPS 2 5 99.9
Wessex Water River Parrett WEST QUAY PS 1 5 100
Wessex Water River Tone CHURCH ROAD PUMPING STATION 1 1 100
Wessex Water Bath Road Rhyne BATH ROAD PS 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Parrett BLAKE GARDENS PS 0 0 100
Wessex Water Hamrod Rhyne BROADSTONE PS 0 0 100
Wessex Water Sowy River MIDDLEZOY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 91.5
Wessex Water Pigrhyne SCHOOL ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water A Local Ditch ST ANDREWS SCHOOL COMBINED SEWER 0 0 84.8
Wessex Water Parrett Estuary VICARAGE LANE 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

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.

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