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Great Yarmouth

Polluted by sewage 320 times in 2025 lasting 686 hours

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Live data for Great Yarmouth in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 419 hours of sewage overflows, from 28 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Great Yarmouth in 2025

10 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
320 sewage dumps
686 hours duration
That's 4.08 weeks. 6.2 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Great Yarmouth 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 North Sea CAISTER- HEADWORKS PS 73 376 100
Anglian Water Tidal River Yare BAKER STREET PUMPING STATION 29 85 100
Anglian Water Tidal River Bure TAR WORKS ROAD SPS 36 58 99.8
Anglian Water Tidal River Yare GREAT YARMOUTH BRYANTS QUAY PS 64 43 99.9
Anglian Water Tidal River Bure GARRISON ROAD PUMPING STATION 33 36 100
Anglian Water To Marsh Drain System CAISTER- HEADWORKS PS 19 35 77.3
Anglian Water Tidal River Yare TOWN HALL PUMPING STATION 30 21 100
Anglian Water Tidal River Bure NORTH DENES/JELLICOE ROAD PUMPING S 15 18 100
Anglian Water Tidal River Yare SOUTHTOWN/COBHAM OUTFALL 9 6 100
Anglian Water Tidal River Yare SUFFLING ROAD PUMPING STATION 12 5 100
Anglian Water Ormesby Broad HALL ROAD PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.9

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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