It's a Dirty Business

Watch Channel 4's documentary about the state of the water industry, then sign the petition to bring water back to public ownership.

Bridgwater - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 3,627 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 35 hours , potential overflows 613 hours so far..

© OpenStreetMap contributors
Contains OS Data © Crown copyright & database right 2021-2024
© Top of the Poops 2021-2024

Which Year?

Select Another Constituency

Select the constituency from the drop-down
✔ means we have live data (𝑥 if not)

View Annual Sewage Data

You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Bridgwater 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.

Take Action

Your local MP is Ashley Fox (Conservative) - Find out more about their interests, donors, and voting at They Work For You

Share this page, post a message, and tell others about the huge problem of sewage pollution across the UK

Daily Data

Jan - 1,785 hours , 613 potential
Feb - 1,832 hours , 2 offline
Mar - 0 hours , 4 offline
Apr - 0 hours , 7 offline
May - 10 hours , 10 offline
We need your support!

Please consider a one-off or small recurring donation. We need your help to keep this site going.

Donate Now

Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Wessex Water NORTH PETHERTON STORM TANK Petherton Stream 22 414h 48m -
Wessex Water CANNINGTON STORM TANK Cannington Brook 25 406h 56m 613 h
Wessex Water COMBWICH QUAY ROAD River Parrett Estuary 28 344h 57m -
Wessex Water NETHER STOWEY STORM TANK Fiddington Brook 24 306h 51m -
Wessex Water NORTH NEWTON CHURCH ROAD River Tone 20 270h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 19 265h 31m -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER CHILTON STREET SALTLANDS River Parrett 24 264h 42m -
Wessex Water CANNINGTON INLET Cannington Brook 17 247h 41m -
Wessex Water WEST HUNTSPILL SLOWAY LANE Unknown 12 217h 44m -
Wessex Water PAWLETT MAIN ROAD Brick Yard Rhyne V Sws 11 152h 25m -
Wessex Water SPAXTON Cannington Brook 12 129h 34m -
Wessex Water CANNINGTON MARSH LANE Cannington Brook 15 112h 58m -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 10 100h 15m -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER TAUNTON ROAD River Parrett 15 99h 20m -
Wessex Water COSSINGTON BROOKHAYES Cossington Brook 17 81h 8m -
Wessex Water FIDDINGTON Fiddington Book 10 78h 32m -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER BRISTOL ROAD River Parrett 5 41h 15m -
Wessex Water WOOLAVINGTON MEADOW FARM Huntspill River 5 29h 56m -
Wessex Water WESTON-SUPER-MARE BLACK ROCK WINDWHISTLE ROAD Axe Estuary 1 18h 52m -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER COLLEY LANE River Parrett 10 12h 14m -
Wessex Water MIDDLEZOY NETHERMOOR ROAD Sowy River 1 7h 10m -
Wessex Water WEMBDON COMMON Crowpill Rhyne 2 5h 50m -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER WEST QUAY DRAWBRIDGE River Parrett 5 5h 35m -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER EAST QUAY River Parrett 11 5h 4m -
Wessex Water STAWELL FORD LANE King Sedgemoors Drain 3 3h 26m -
Wessex Water HIGHBRIDGE NEWTON STORM TANKS River Brue 3 3h 5m -
Wessex Water PURITON DOWNEND TERRACE Un-Named 1 2h 6m -
Wessex Water HIGHBRIDGE NEWTON STORM TANKS River Brue 0 0h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 2 h
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Wessex Water BURNHAM-ON-SEA ST ANDREWS SCHOOL LOVE LANE A Local Ditch 0 0h -
Wessex Water PURITON DOWNEND TERRACE Un-Named 0 0h -
Wessex Water COSSINGTON BROOKHAYES Cossington Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water NORTH PETHERTON STORM TANK Petherton Stream 0 0h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER CHILTON STREET SALTLANDS River Parrett 0 0h -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER WEST QUAY DRAWBRIDGE River Parrett 0 0h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 4 h
Wessex Water HIGHBRIDGE NEWTON INLET River Brue 0 0h 16 h
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 0 h
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 1 h
Wessex Water PAWLETT MAIN ROAD Brick Yard Rhyne V Sws 0 0h -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER HORSEY BATH ROAD Bath Road Rhyne 0 0h -
Wessex Water FIDDINGTON Fiddington Book 0 0h -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER EAST QUAY River Parrett 0 0h -
Wessex Water OTHERY RYE LANE/ SUMMERHEDGE ROAD Sowy River 0 0h -
Wessex Water NETHER STOWEY STORM TANK Fiddington Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER BRISTOL ROAD River Parrett 0 0h -
Wessex Water WESTONZOYLAND LAKEWALL ROAD Pigrhyne 0 0h -
Wessex Water PAWLETT VICARAGE LANE Parrett Estuary 0 0h 1 h
Wessex Water CANNINGTON INLET Cannington Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Wessex Water WESTON-SUPER-MARE BLACK ROCK WINDWHISTLE ROAD Axe Estuary 0 0h -
Wessex Water COMBWICH QUAY ROAD River Parrett Estuary 0 0h -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER COLLEY LANE River Parrett 0 0h -
Wessex Water CANNINGTON MARSH LANE Cannington Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water CANNINGTON STORM TANK Cannington Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water HIGHBRIDGE NEWTON INLET River Brue 0 0h -
Wessex Water WESTONZOYLAND LAKEWALL ROAD Pigrhyne 0 0h -
Wessex Water WOOLAVINGTON MEADOW FARM Huntspill River 0 0h -
Wessex Water OTHERY RYE LANE/ SUMMERHEDGE ROAD Sowy River 0 0h -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER TAUNTON ROAD River Parrett 0 0h -
Wessex Water WESTONZOYLAND HAMROD LANE Hamrod Rhyne 0 0h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 0 h
Wessex Water WEST HUNTSPILL SLOWAY LANE Unknown 0 0h -
Wessex Water NORTH NEWTON CHURCH ROAD River Tone 0 0h -
Wessex Water WEMBDON COMMON Crowpill Rhyne 0 0h -
Wessex Water SPAXTON Cannington Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER HORSEY BATH ROAD Bath Road Rhyne 0 0h -
Wessex Water PAWLETT VICARAGE LANE Parrett Estuary 0 0h -
Wessex Water BURNHAM-ON-SEA ST ANDREWS SCHOOL LOVE LANE A Local Ditch 0 0h -
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER BLAKE GARDENS River Parrett 0 0h -
Wessex Water MIDDLEZOY NETHERMOOR ROAD Sowy River 0 0h -
Wessex Water STAWELL FORD LANE King Sedgemoors Drain 0 0h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 8 h
Wessex Water BRIDGWATER BLAKE GARDENS River Parrett 0 0h 0 h
Wessex Water WESTONZOYLAND HAMROD LANE Hamrod Rhyne 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

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.