Harwich and North Essex

Polluted by sewage 749 times in 2024 lasting 5,959 hours

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Live data for Harwich and North Essex in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:45 AM) there has been 369 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Harwich and North Essex in 2024

29 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

749 sewage dumps

5,959 hours duration

That's 8.28 months. On average 2.1 times a day

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Waterways in Harwich and North Essex

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Harwich and North Essex, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Harwich and North Essex in 2024. 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 CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Anglian Water	Wignall Brook	WIGNALL STREET PS	77	1,666	99.8
Anglian Water	Bromley Brook	GREAT BROMLEY WRC	53	983	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	WEST BERGHOLT STW	37	697	87.1
Anglian Water	River Colne	FORD STREET T.P.S.	55	653	98.2
Anglian Water	Ten Penny Brook River Colne N	THORRINGTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	73	443	99.65
Anglian Water	Colne Estuary	COLCHESTER WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	105	390	99.47
Anglian Water	River Colne	EIGHT ASH GREEN STW	45	300	99.1
Anglian Water	Tidal River Stour	HARWICH AND DOVERCOURT WRC	29	152	99.95
Anglian Water	Tidal River Colne	WIVENHOE-PHILLIP ROAD CSO	46	149	98.8
Anglian Water	Tidal River Colne	WIVENHOE-THE FOLLY CSO	16	119	99.5
Anglian Water	Blackwater Estuary	WEST MERSEA WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	29	94	100
Anglian Water	West Dyke	BRIGHTLINGSEA WEST DYKE TERMINAL PS	8	62	91.2
Anglian Water	River Colne	COLCHESTER - REGENT COURT CSO	19	62	99.6
Anglian Water	Wignall Brook Stour Estuary	MANNINGTREE(LAWFORD) STW	10	45	100
Anglian Water	Horkesley Black Brook	IVY LODGE SPS	6	31	100
Anglian Water	Tidal River Colne	COLCHESTER-HAVEN ROAD CSO	18	31	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	EIGHT ASH GREEN - HEATHFIELDS SPS	3	20	100
Anglian Water	Bourne Brook	COLCHESTER-BOURNE MILL CSO	21	15	100
Anglian Water	South Hall Creek	DOVERCOURT LOW ROAD PUMPING STATION	2	12	100
Anglian Water	West Dyke	BRIGHTLINGSEA STATION ROAD CSO	33	9	100
Anglian Water	Dedham Mill Tail- Rv Stour	DEDHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	3	7	100
Anglian Water	West Dyke	BRIGHTLINGSEA - SPRING ROAD CSO	39	4	100
Anglian Water	Drain Colne Estuary	BRIGHTLINGSEA STATION ROAD CSO	10	2	100
Anglian Water	Unnamed Brightlingsea Bro	SAMPSON ROAD SPS	1	1	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	COLCHESTER-ROWHEDGE ALBION ST. CSO	4	0	100
Anglian Water	Birch Brook	ROWHEDGE - HIGH STREET PUMPING ST.	2	0	100
Anglian Water	Frating Brook	ELMSTEAD-HOLLY WAY THATCHERS DR PS	1	0	100
Anglian Water	West Dyke	BRIGHTLINGSEA STATION ROAD CSO	3	0	100
Anglian Water	West Dyke	BRIGHTLINGSEA CSO (BELLFIELD 35)	1	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. This 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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Harwich and North Essex Polluted by sewage 749 times in 2024 lasting 5,959 hours

Harwich and North Essex