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Central Suffolk and North Ipswich

Polluted by sewage 155 times in 2025 lasting 810 hours

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Live data for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich in 2026

So far this year (as of 21 Apr 2026, 17:30) there has been 942 hours of sewage overflows, from 25 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich in 2025

11 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
155 sewage dumps
810 hours duration
That's 1.12 months. 3 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich 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 %
Anglian Water River Gipping STONHAM ASPAL STW 24 286 100
Anglian Water River Ore FRAMLINGHAM STW 25 194 99.8
Anglian Water River Deben WICKHAM MARKET WRC 13 128 99.6
Anglian Water River Ore WOODBRIDGE RD CSO 25 73 99
Anglian Water River Gipping CODDENHAM - BLACKSMITHS LANE TPS 8 49 100
Anglian Water River Deben DEBENHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 5 23 100
Anglian Water River Ore FAIRFIELD ROAD 11 17 100
Anglian Water River Ore FORE STREET CSO 1 11 98.8
Anglian Water River Deben WICKHAM BRIDGE PS 4 9 100
Anglian Water River Gipping NEEDHAM MARKET WATER RECYCLING CNTR 4 8 99.5
Anglian Water River Orwell CLIFF QUAY NEW TUNNEL OUTFALL 35 7 100
Anglian Water River Gipping IPSWICH ROAD TERMINAL PS 0 0 99
Anglian Water River Gipping SPROUGHTON ROAD PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.5

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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