Bridgwater

Polluted by sewage 708 times in 2024 lasting 4,634 hours

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Live data for Bridgwater in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:30 AM) there has been 1,096 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Bridgwater in 2024

28 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
708 sewage dumps
4,634 hours duration
That's 6.44 months. On average 1.9 times a day

Change Over Time

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Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Bridgwater, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bridgwater in 2024. 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 CSOs 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 116 1,170 100
Wessex Water Petherton Stream NORTH PETHERTON WRC 80 869 99.9
Wessex Water River Parrett Estuary COMBWICH PUMPING STATION 56 504 100
Wessex Water Fiddington Brook NETHER STOWEY WATER RECYCLING CENTR 37 423 100
Wessex Water River Parrett EAST QUAY PUMPING STATION 43 249 99.5
Wessex Water Fiddington Book FIDDINGTON PS 33 238 99.9
Wessex Water Cossington Brook BROOKHAYES CSO 53 149 99.1
Wessex Water Cannington Brook SPAXTON PUMPING STATION 14 145 100
Wessex Water Sowy River SUMMERHEDGE PUMPING STATION 16 118 99.2
Wessex Water Cannington Brook MARSH LANE CSO 32 118 99.2
Wessex Water Brick Yard Rhyne V Sws PAWLETT PUMPING STATION 14 116 100
Wessex Water King Sedgemoors Drain STAWELL PUMPING STATION 21 108 99.1
Wessex Water River Parrett TAUNTON ROAD PS 50 80 100
Wessex Water Huntspill River MEADOW FARM PUMPING STATION 8 73 100
Wessex Water River Parrett CHILTON STREET(SALTLANDS) PS 41 47 100
Wessex Water River Brue HIGHBRIDGE PUMPING STATION 16 34 100
Wessex Water Sowy River MIDDLEZOY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 5 34 100
Wessex Water River Parrett COLLEY LANE PUMPING STATION 24 30 100
Wessex Water Unknown SLOWAY LANE PUMPING STATION 10 29 100
Wessex Water River Parrett BRISTOL ROAD S P STN 17 29 100
Wessex Water River Tone CHURCH ROAD PUMPING STATION 4 21 100
Wessex Water River Parrett WEST QUAY PS 4 13 100
Wessex Water Crowpill Rhyne WEMBDON COMMON PUMPING STATION 5 13 99.6
Wessex Water Un-Named PURITON SPS 4 11 100
Wessex Water Pigrhyne SCHOOL ROAD CSO 2 1 99.9
Wessex Water Hamrod Rhyne BROADSTONE PS 1 0 99.5
Wessex Water Bath Road Rhyne BATH ROAD PS 1 0 100
Wessex Water A Local Ditch ST ANDREWS SCHOOL COMBINED SEWER 1 0 99.8
Wessex Water Parrett Estuary VICARAGE LANE PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.7
Wessex Water River Parrett BLAKE 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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