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Castle Point

Polluted by sewage 137 times in 2025 lasting 718 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Castle Point in 2026

So far this year (as of 12 Aug 2026, 08:45) there has been 990 hours of sewage overflows, from 41 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Castle Point in 2025

19 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
137 sewage dumps
718 hours duration
That's 4.27 weeks. 2.6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Castle Point 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 1 of the total 21 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water Benfleet Creek SOUTH BENFLEET 34 179 100
Anglian Water Benfleet Creek BENFLEET WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 14 102 100
Anglian Water Knightswick Dyke NEVADA ROAD CSO 16 96 100
Anglian Water Thames Estuary CANVEY ISLAND WRC 26 82 97.3
Anglian Water Hill Hall Dyke DYKE CRESCENT CSO 14 75 100
Anglian Water River Crouch RUSH BOTTOM LANE & STANSFIELD RD 8 52 97.5
Anglian Water Drain-To Tidal Water CANVEY - NEW ROAD SP 3 48 98.2
Anglian Water Knightswick Dyke CANVEY - NEVADA RD/HIGH ST PS 6 32 100
Anglian Water North Benfleet Brook ELM ROAD SPS 5 32 100
Anglian Water Benfleet Creek BENFLEET MARSH PUMPING STATION 1 5 100
Anglian Water River Thames CANVEY ISLAND - FURTHERWICK ROAD PS 1 4 100
Anglian Water River Crouch EVERSLEY RD/RUSHBOT.LN 1 2 100
Anglian Water Mill Fleet HADLEIGH - CASTLE LANE SP 1 2 100
Anglian Water Benfleet Creek RICHMON AVE CSO 2 2 46.5
Anglian Water Common Watercourse No7 CASTLE PT HI ROAD/SOUTHVIEW RD CSO 1 1 93.1
Anglian Water River Crouch JOTMANS LANE/HIGH ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Anglian Water River Crouch LOWER CHURCH ROAD 1 0 99.2
Anglian Water River Thames POINT ROAD PUMPING STATION 1 0 100
Anglian Water Common Watercourse No 7 S BENFLEET- HALL FARM ROAD PS 1 0 100
Anglian Water Drain-Totidal Water CANVEY - CHAMPLAIN AVENUE PS 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Crouch RUSHBOTTOM LANE 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. 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.

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