South Suffolk was polluted by sewage 565 times in 2023
lasting 4,614 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for South Suffolk in 2023

24 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

565 sewage dumps
4,614 h duration

That's 6.41 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in South Suffolk

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Suffolk 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 2 of the total 31 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 2 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Anglian Water	River Brett	MONKS ELEIGH WRC	185	1,189	100
Anglian Water	Lavenham Brook River Brett	LAVENHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	45	709	100
Anglian Water	River Glem	GLEMSFORD STW	31	559	100
Anglian Water	River Brett	HADLEIGH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	45	533	100
Anglian Water	Utray Belstead Brook	ELMSETT WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	38	520	100
Anglian Water	River Box	GREAT WALDINGFIELD - FOLLY ROAD PS	21	218	100
Anglian Water	Dodnash Brook	PARKINS COAL YARD CAPEL ST MARY PS	16	216	100
Anglian Water	River Lark	LAWSHALL - HARROW TRIANGLE SP	14	185	100
Anglian Water	River Box	BOXFORD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	10	120	100
Anglian Water	River Brett	CHELSWORTH CAKEBRIDGE LANE PS	8	81	100
Anglian Water	River Stour	SUDBURY - GREAT EASTERN ROAD TPS	27	66	100
Anglian Water	River Orwell	WOOLVERSTONE - MARINA TPS	15	52	100
Anglian Water	Gosnalls Brook River Stour	EAST BERGHOLT WRC	7	30	100
Anglian Water	Stutton Brook	GREAT WENHAM STW	3	26	100
Anglian Water	Unnamed River Stour	SKATES HILL PS	8	26	100
Anglian Water	River Box	MILL LANE PS	5	24	100
Anglian Water	River Orwell T	SHOTLEY STW	14	14	100
Anglian Water	River Stour	BRANTHAM - FACTORY LANE (B) TPS	17	13	92.25
Anglian Water	River Stour	SUDBURY THE CROFT CSO	25	7	84.4
Anglian Water	R Stour	SUDBURY BAILEY & COATES CSO	15	7	100
Anglian Water	River Stour	SUDBURY - CORNARD ROAD PS	8	4	100
Anglian Water	Holbrook Stream	HOLBROOK STW	4	2	100
Anglian Water	River Gipping	ELTON PARK PS	2	2	100
Anglian Water	Holbrook Creek Estuary Stour	HOLBROOK STW	2	1	100
Anglian Water	River Brett	HADLEIGH	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Stour	SUDBURY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Catawade Creek	BRANTHAM - FACTORY LANE (B) TPS	0	0	0
Anglian Water	Cornard Black Brook	GREAT CORNARD STW	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Box	STONE STREET TPS	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Lavenham Brook	LAVENHAM STW INLET PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Unknown	E AREA INTERCPTR SEWER	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. 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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