South Suffolk

Polluted by sewage 534 times in 2024 lasting 3,991 hours

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Live data for South Suffolk in 2025

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

Totals for South Suffolk in 2024

25 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
534 sewage dumps
3,991 hours duration
That's 5.54 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for South Suffolk, 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 South Suffolk 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 River Brett MONKS ELEIGH WRC 147 969 99.8
Anglian Water River Glem GLEMSFORD STW 21 360 96.9
Anglian Water River Stour BRANTHAM - FACTORY LANE (B) TPS 22 360 54.7
Anglian Water River Box GREAT WALDINGFIELD - FOLLY ROAD PS 22 339 100
Anglian Water River Box BOXFORD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 25 318 100
Anglian Water Lavenham Brook River Brett LAVENHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 19 245 98.6
Anglian Water River Brett HADLEIGH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 23 242 100
Anglian Water River Brett CHELSWORTH CAKEBRIDGE LANE PS 23 211 100
Anglian Water River Lark LAWSHALL - HARROW TRIANGLE SP 15 192 99.2
Anglian Water Lavenham Brook LAVENHAM STW INLET PUMPING STATION 15 132 78.1
Anglian Water River Box MILL LANE PS 17 124 100
Anglian Water Utray Belstead Brook ELMSETT WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 19 89 86.8
Anglian Water Holbrook Stream HOLBROOK STW 38 82 100
Anglian Water River Brett HADLEIGH 9 80 100
Anglian Water River Orwell WOOLVERSTONE - MARINA TPS 27 72 100
Anglian Water Dodnash Brook PARKINS COAL YARD CAPEL ST MARY PS 4 60 100
Anglian Water River Gipping ELTON PARK PS 34 57 99.3
Anglian Water River Box STONE STREET TPS 2 24 96.1
Anglian Water Unnamed River Stour SKATES HILL PS 6 12 100
Anglian Water River Stour SUDBURY THE CROFT CSO 16 4 100
Anglian Water R Stour SUDBURY BAILEY & COATES CSO 14 3 100
Anglian Water River Stour SUDBURY - CORNARD ROAD PS 5 3 100
Anglian Water Stutton Brook GREAT WENHAM STW 2 3 100
Anglian Water River Orwell T SHOTLEY STW 8 2 100
Anglian Water River Stour SUDBURY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 1 0 100
Anglian Water Gosnalls Brook River Stour EAST BERGHOLT WRC 0 0 100
Anglian Water Holbrook Creek Estuary Stour HOLBROOK STW 0 0 100
Anglian Water Cornard Black Brook GREAT CORNARD STW 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. This 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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