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Frome and East Somerset

Polluted by sewage 1,606 times in 2025 lasting 9,475 hours - That's 1.1 years!

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Live data for Frome and East Somerset in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 9,222 hours of sewage overflows, from 157 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s - that's 1.07 years!

Totals for Frome and East Somerset in 2025

62 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
1,606 sewage dumps
9,475 hours duration
That's 13.16 months. On average 4.4 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Frome and East Somerset 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 Nunney Brook NUNNEY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 77 1,382 100
Wessex Water Mells River COLEFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 115 941 100
Wessex Water Norton Brook NORTON ST PHILIP WWTW 47 756 100
Wessex Water Mells River EDFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 92 584 99.75
Wessex Water River Frome TRUDOXHILL PUMPING STATION 53 584 100
Wessex Water Somerset Frome RODE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 39 522 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook RADSTOCK WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 76 489 100
Wessex Water Whatley Brook CRANMORE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 37 422 100
Wessex Water Somer Stream CHILCOMPTON WWTW 109 416 100
Wessex Water River Alham EVERCREECH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 67 349 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook SHOSCOMBE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORK 41 341 99.8
Wessex Water River Brue HAVYATT PUMPING STATION 25 297 100
Wessex Water River Alham DITCHEAT WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 26 268 99.9
Wessex Water Leigh Stream LEIGH ON MENDIP WWTW 16 195 100
Wessex Water River Frome WITHAM FRIARY PUMPING STATION 17 163 100
Wessex Water Cam Brook STONEAGE LANE PUMPING STATION 28 155 100
Wessex Water Kilmersdon Stream KILMERSDON PUMPING STATION 28 153 100
Wessex Water River Frome BECKINGTON WWTW 11 131 99.9
Wessex Water Nunney Brook WANSTROW PS 16 122 100
Wessex Water River Frome ADDERWELL CLOSE CSO 58 106 99.9
Wessex Water Mells Stream GURNEY SLADE PUMPING STATION 19 95 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook WELTON HOLLOW CSO 28 91 100
Wessex Water River Frome LOWER KEYFORD CSO 58 81 100
Wessex Water Midford Brook MIDFORD PUMPING STATION 18 78 100
Wessex Water Mells Stream KINGS HEAD CSO 26 76 82.6
Wessex Water River Somer CAUTLETTS CLOSE CSO 10 73 98.9
Wessex Water Wellow Brook MIDSOMER NORTON CSO 17 67 100
Wessex Water River Frome SHARPSTONE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 29 63 98.9
Wessex Water River Frome FROME WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 22 60 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook BERKELEY AVENUE CSO 28 58 100
Wessex Water Midford Brook MILL LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 49 45 95.4
Wessex Water Midford Brook BROOKLANDS PUMPING STATION O/F 7 44 100
Wessex Water Mells Stream OAKHILL WWTW 5 30 99.9
Wessex Water Cam Brook CAM VALLEY WWTW 28 29 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook SOMERVALE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OF 40 24 100
Wessex Water River Alham STONEY STRATTON PUMPING STATION 3 21 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook PINE COURT COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 10 16 83.1
Wessex Water River Frome NEW INN PUMPING STATION 4 13 99.9
Wessex Water Waterside KILMERSDON ROAD CSO 28 12 100
Wessex Water Ten Foot Rhyne PAGE LANE PUMPING STATION 2 11 99.9
Wessex Water River Frome WALLBRIDGE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 3 11 100
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws WHATCOMBE ROAD CSO 31 10 100
Wessex Water Cam Brook BRIDGE PLACE ROAD CSO 5 8 100
Wessex Water Mells Stream STOKE HILL PUMPING STATION 1 7 98.8
Wessex Water River Frome RODE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 3 7 97.4
Wessex Water Coxbridge Brook PARBROOK WRC 2 6 86.2
Wessex Water River Frome YOUTH CENTRE CSO 21 6 97.3
Wessex Water Unnamed Ditch NEW BUILDINGS PS 27 6 100
Wessex Water River Frome COURT HOUSE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 19 5 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook WELLOW WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 2 5 100
Wessex Water River Frome MERCHANTS BARTON CSO 17 4 100
Wessex Water Cam Brook SPLOTT FARM CSO 2 2 100
Wessex Water River Frome RODDEN ROAD CSO 2 2 100
Wessex Water River Frome PORTWAY LOCKS HILL CSO 17 2 100
Wessex Water Waterside WATERSIDE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 9 1 100
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws 8 MARKET PLACE CSO 6 1 100
Wessex Water River Frome NORTH OF CARPET FACTORY CSO 4 0 100
Wessex Water Adderwell Brook FELTHAM DRIVE CSO 13 0 100
Wessex Water Midford Brook WELTON STORM RELIEF OVERFLOW 7 0 100
Wessex Water Midford Brook MIDFORD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 2 0 100
Wessex Water River Frome WESTWAY PRECINCT CAR PARK CSO 3 0 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook FROME ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 100
Wessex Water Nunney Brook MARSTON LANE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Mells Stream MELLS PS 0 0 100
Wessex Water Mells Stream MELLS WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 0 0 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook MILL HILL PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Nunney Brook NUNNEY CASTLE CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook RIVERSIDE MEWS CSO 0 0 94
Wessex Water Wellow Brook SINGLE HILL PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Luccombe Watercourse STRATTON ON FOSSE WWTW 0 0 99.9
Wessex Water Midford Brook SUNNYVALE P STN STORM OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook TYNING HILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 95.1
Wessex Water Wellow Brook WALDEGRAVE TERRACE CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook WELLOW LANE PUMPING STATION 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

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