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North Somerset

Polluted by sewage 381 times in 2025 lasting 2,522 hours

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Live data for North Somerset in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,922 hours of sewage overflows, from 46 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for North Somerset in 2025

14 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
381 sewage dumps
2,522 hours duration
That's 3.5 months. On average 1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North 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 Congresbury Yeo And Butcombe BUTCOMBE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 44 817 99.3
Wessex Water Unknown PORTBURY WHARF STW 83 721 100
Wessex Water Congresbury Yeo WRINGTON COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 29 392 97.25
Wessex Water Severn Estuary BLACK NORE (NAUTICAL SCHOOL) PS 36 138 99.9
Wessex Water River Severn 35 HILLSIDE ROAD CSO 45 102 98
Wessex Water Portbury Ditch HARBOUR ROAD CSO 19 99 98.6
Wessex Water Portbury Ditch, PORTISHEAD TOWN PUMPING STATION 15 64 100
Wessex Water River Avon AVON ROAD PUMPING STATION 26 64 100
Wessex Water Bristol Channel LADYE BAY PUMPING STATION 23 42 100
Wessex Water Portbury Ditch SLADE ROAD/COMBE ROAD CSO 38 31 100
Wessex Water Bristol Channel CLEVEDON MAIN PS 10 27 100
Wessex Water Estuary LAKE ROAD PUMPING STATION 7 17 96.1
Wessex Water Bristol Channel CLEVEDON BEACH PUMPING STATION 5 2 100
Wessex Water Land Yeo OLD STREET CSO, CLEVEDON 1 0 100
Wessex Water Portbury Via Sws BRAMPTON WAY COMBINED SEWER O'FLOW 0 0 100
Wessex Water Severn Estuary CLEVEDON MARINE PARADE PUMPING STN 0 0 100
Wessex Water Land Yeo PARNELL ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Portbury Drove Rhyne PORTBURY DROVE 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

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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