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Harwich and North Essex

Polluted by sewage 153 times in 2025 lasting 441 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Harwich and North Essex in 2026

So far this year (as of 15 Apr 2026, 04:00) there has been 2,898 hours of sewage overflows, from 66 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Harwich and North Essex in 2025

20 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
153 sewage dumps
441 hours duration
That's 2.62 weeks. 2.9 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Harwich and North Essex 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 1 of the total 24 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water Bromley Brook GREAT BROMLEY WRC 14 119 100
Anglian Water River Colne FORD STREET T.P.S. 10 84 99.3
Anglian Water Colne Estuary COLCHESTER WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 28 73 99.3
Anglian Water River Colne COLCHESTER - REGENT COURT CSO 11 40 99.8
Anglian Water River Colne EIGHT ASH GREEN STW 5 21 99.9
Anglian Water Tidal River Stour HARWICH AND DOVERCOURT WRC 10 13 99.95
Anglian Water Bourne Brook COLCHESTER-BOURNE MILL CSO 21 12 100
Anglian Water Tidal River Colne COLCHESTER-HAVEN ROAD CSO 6 12 100
Anglian Water Horkesley Black Brook IVY LODGE SPS 2 11 100
Anglian Water Wignall Brook Stour Estuary MANNINGTREE(LAWFORD) STW 5 11 99.9
Anglian Water Dedham Mill Tail- Rv Stour DEDHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 2 10 100
Anglian Water Blackwater Estuary WEST MERSEA WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 6 8 100
Anglian Water Tidal River Colne WIVENHOE-PHILLIP ROAD CSO 4 7 98.1
Anglian Water Ten Penny Brook River Colne N THORRINGTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 3 6 98.9
Anglian Water Wignall Brook WIGNALL STREET PS 2 5 99.9
Anglian Water West Dyke BRIGHTLINGSEA - SPRING ROAD CSO 15 2 99.9
Anglian Water Unnamed Brightlingsea Bro SAMPSON ROAD SPS 2 1 100
Anglian Water River Colne COLCHESTER-ROWHEDGE ALBION ST. CSO 4 0 95.9
Anglian Water Tidal River Colne WIVENHOE-THE FOLLY CSO 1 0 100
Anglian Water Birch Brook ROWHEDGE - HIGH STREET PUMPING ST. 2 0 100
Anglian Water South Hall Creek DOVERCOURT LOW ROAD PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Colne EIGHT ASH GREEN - HEATHFIELDS SPS 0 0 100
Anglian Water Frating Brook ELMSTEAD-HOLLY WAY THATCHERS DR PS 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Colne WEST BERGHOLT STW 0 0 0

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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