Harwich and North Essex was polluted by sewage 649 times in 2023
lasting 4,344 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Harwich and North Essex in 2023

25 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

649 sewage dumps
4,344 h duration

That's 6.03 months. On average 1.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Harwich and North Essex

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Harwich and North Essex in 2023. 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 30 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Anglian Water	River Colne	FORD STREET T.P.S.	80	880	97.6
Anglian Water	Ten Penny Brook River Colne N	THORRINGTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	98	819	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	WEST BERGHOLT STW	31	559	99.8
Anglian Water	River Colne	EIGHT ASH GREEN STW	49	490	100
Anglian Water	Wignall Brook Stour Estuary	MANNINGTREE(LAWFORD) STW	40	476	100
Anglian Water	Wignall Brook	WIGNALL STREET PS	14	294	100
Anglian Water	Colne Estuary	COLCHESTER WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	55	210	88.13
Anglian Water	Tidal River Colne	WIVENHOE-THE FOLLY CSO	28	178	99.1
Anglian Water	River Colne	COLCHESTER - REGENT COURT CSO	26	109	87.9
Anglian Water	Tidal River Stour	HARWICH AND DOVERCOURT WRC	36	109	100
Anglian Water	Tidal River Colne	COLCHESTER-HAVEN ROAD CSO	27	52	100
Anglian Water	South Hall Creek	DOVERCOURT LOW ROAD PUMPING STATION	4	46	100
Anglian Water	Tidal River Colne	WIVENHOE-PHILLIP ROAD CSO	23	34	100
Anglian Water	West Dyke	BRIGHTLINGSEA WEST DYKE TERMINAL PS	14	31	100
Anglian Water	West Dyke	BRIGHTLINGSEA STATION ROAD CSO	25	13	98.2
Anglian Water	Blackwater Estuary	WEST MERSEA WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	34	11	100
Anglian Water	River Colne	EIGHT ASH GREEN - HEATHFIELDS SPS	4	9	100
Anglian Water	Drain Colne Estuary	BRIGHTLINGSEA STATION ROAD CSO	18	8	98.1
Anglian Water	Unnamed Brightlingsea Bro	SAMPSON ROAD SPS	6	5	100
Anglian Water	West Dyke	BRIGHTLINGSEA - SPRING ROAD CSO	22	1	99.5
Anglian Water	Bourne Brook	COLCHESTER-BOURNE MILL CSO	2	0	87.5
Anglian Water	River Colne	COLCHESTER-ROWHEDGE ALBION ST. CSO	6	0	87.5
Anglian Water	West Dyke	BRIGHTLINGSEA CSO (BELLFIELD 35)	3	0	98.2
Anglian Water	Dedham Mill Tail- Rv Stour	DEDHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	1	0	100
Anglian Water	West Dyke	BRIGHTLINGSEA STATION ROAD CSO	3	0	98.2
Anglian Water	Frating Brook	ELMSTEAD-HOLLY WAY THATCHERS DR PS	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Bromley Brook	GREAT BROMLEY WRC	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Stour Estuary	MISTLEY SEA OUTFALL	0	0	0
Anglian Water	Horkesley Black Brook	IVY LODGE SPS	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Birch Brook	ROWHEDGE - HIGH STREET PUMPING ST.	0	0	92

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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