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Bristol East

Polluted by sewage 426 times in 2025 lasting 561 hours

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Live data for Bristol East in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 179 hours of sewage overflows, from 95 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Bristol East in 2025

39 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
426 sewage dumps
561 hours duration
That's 3.34 weeks. On average 1.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bristol East 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 Brislington Brook ELLESMERE ROAD CSO 40 169 100
Wessex Water Brislington Brook AIRPORT ROAD CSO 31 143 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws STAPLETON ROAD CSO 8 32 71.7
Wessex Water Brislington Brook ST ANNES TERRACE CSO 19 28 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws WHITEHALL ROAD CSO 22 24 100
Wessex Water River Avon ST GEORGES PARK 1 CSO 26 21 100
Wessex Water River Avon FEEDER ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 5 16 100
Wessex Water River Avon WHITEWAY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OF 28 13 96.6
Wessex Water River Avon HILLBURN ROAD CSO 18 11 100
Wessex Water Brislington Brook Via Sws BRISLINGTON HILL CSO 11 10 100
Wessex Water River Avon CATTLE MARKET ROAD SIPHON CSO 5 9 100
Wessex Water River Avon QUEEN STREET CSO 26 9 99.8
Wessex Water Brislington Brook Via Sws SOMERDALE AV SPRING GARDENS CSO 14 8 100
Wessex Water Strad Brook BRITANNIA ROAD CSO 5 6 76.6
Wessex Water Brislington Brook 424 WELLS ROAD CSO 20 5 95.3
Wessex Water Unknown BIFIELD ROAD CSO 4 5 97.7
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws BUDE AVENUE FOOTBALL PITCH CSO 16 5 100
Wessex Water Floating Harbour AVON STREET CSO 6 4 95.2
Wessex Water River Avon VICTOR STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFL 3 4 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws SALISBURY AVENUE COMBINED SEWER OF 15 3 95.9
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws HOLDENHURST ROAD CSO 12 3 100
Wessex Water River Frome CHAPLIN ROAD CSO 5 3 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws NEATH ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 4 2 50.5
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws WHITBY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 6 2 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws ST GEORGE'S PARK 2 CSO 12 2 100
Wessex Water River Avon LOWER CONHAM VALE CSO 8 1 94.7
Wessex Water River Frome CHAMPION COURT CSO 2 1 100
Wessex Water River Avon CENTRAL TRADING ESTATE PS 2 1 100
Wessex Water River Avon CENTRAL TRADING ESTATE CSO 8 1 100
Wessex Water River Avon NEW QUEEN STREET COMBINED SEWER OF 8 1 100
Wessex Water Malago ANDOVER ROAD/STOCKWOOD CRESC CSO 6 1 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws MEADOW VALE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 7 0 98.6
Wessex Water River Avon BATH ROAD TRADING ESTATE CSO 3 0 100
Wessex Water River Avon WHITBY ROAD EMBANKMENT PS 1 0 100
Wessex Water River Avon SPEEDWELL ROAD COMBINED SEWER OF 6 0 100
Wessex Water Brislington Brook Via Sws BATH ROAD (NO 2) CSO 6 0 97.8
Wessex Water Coombe Brook Via Sws BURCHELLS GREEN ROAD CSO 6 0 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws WHITBY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 100
Wessex Water Brislington Brook Via Sws 424 WELLS ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Wessex Water Brislington Brook 112 SCHOOL ROAD 0 0 93.6
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws 12 SIDCOT ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Avon 29 LYPPIATT ROAD CSO 0 0 95.3
Wessex Water Brislington Brook Via Sws 424 WELLS ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Brislington Brook 424 WELLS ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws 57 LYPPIATT ROAD CSO 0 0 98.7
Wessex Water Unknown 8 HULSE ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Brislington Brook Via Sws BATH ROAD (NO 2) CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Frome BOND STREET SOUTH CSO 0 0 65
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws BROOMHILL ROAD CSO 0 0 97.2
Wessex Water Brislington Brook Sws CROSSWAYS ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws GORDON ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Frome HIGH STREET/ST MARKS CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Avon HOLMES HILL ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws MARION WALK CSO 0 0 98.9
Wessex Water River Avon OUTSIDE 8 SIDCOT 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws PRITCHARD STREET CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Brislington Brook SALTWELL VIADUCT CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Brislington Brook Via Sws SOMERDALE AV SALCOMBE RD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Brislington Brook WOOTTON PARK CSO 0 0 95.3

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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