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Taunton and Wellington

Polluted by sewage 552 times in 2025 lasting 4,160 hours

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Live data for Taunton and Wellington in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 8,667 hours of sewage overflows, from 94 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s - that's 1 years!

Totals for Taunton and Wellington in 2025

32 Sites polluted by South West Water Wessex Water
552 sewage dumps
4,160 hours duration
That's 5.78 months. On average 1.5 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Taunton and Wellington 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 River Tone BRADFORD ON TONE WWTW 53 618 100
Wessex Water River Tone PRIORY STORM TANKS 52 511 100
Wessex Water Fivehead River HATCH BEAUCHAMP WRC 70 432 99.6
Wessex Water Sedgemoor Old Rhyne MEARE GREEN WRANTAGE PS 24 373 100
Wessex Water River Tone LANGFORD LANE PUMPING STATION 23 318 100
Wessex Water Haywards Water HOCKHOLLER PUMPING STATION 63 244 99.3
Wessex Water River Tone WELLINGTON WWTW 31 222 100
Wessex Water Tidal River Tone STOKE ST GREGORY STW 50 219 100
Wessex Water River Tone TONE GREEN PUMPING STATION 12 195 96.8
Wessex Water Black Brook HENLADE PUMPING STATION 14 177 100
Wessex Water Sedgemoor Old Rhyne STOKE ROAD PUMPING STATION 22 161 99.8
Wessex Water River Tone HYDE LANE PUMPING STATION 19 151 100
Wessex Water Allen'S Brook ALLENS BROOK CSO 17 144 97.5
Wessex Water Haywards Water MITCHELS POOL PUMPING STATION 16 105 100
Wessex Water Back Stream NAILSBOURNE PUMPING STATION 6 64 100
Wessex Water River Tone WEST BUCKLAND PUMPING STATION 9 44 100
Wessex Water Old River Tone MAIDENBROOK LANE CSO 8 30 100
Wessex Water Fivehead River HATCH BEAUCHANP PUMPING STATION 6 23 100
Wessex Water West Sedgemoor M Drain WOODHILL PUMPING STATION 3 21 99.9
Wessex Water River Tone MOUNTWAY BISHOPS HULL CSO 11 20 99.9
Wessex Water River Tone NORTH CURRY MAIN PUMPING STATION 11 18 92.1
Wessex Water Westford Stream WESTFORD PUMPING STATION 3 17 100
South West Water River Otter CHURCHINFORD STW 6 17 95.1
Wessex Water Sherford Stream TAUNTON TRULL EAST BROOK CSO 2 7 99.9
Wessex Water Broughton Brook MILL LANE NO. 2 CSO 7 6 100
Wessex Water Storm Culvert LANE END PUMPING STATION 3 3 99.8
Wessex Water River Tone CURLOAD PUMPING STATION 4 2 100
Wessex Water River Tone Via Sws 1A SHUTEWATER CLOSE PUMPING STATION 1 1 99.9
Wessex Water River Tone NORTH END PUMPING STATION 1 1 100
Wessex Water River Tone TAUNTON MARKET CSO 1 0 88
Wessex Water River Tone Via Sws STATION MILLS CSO 2 0 100
Wessex Water Black Brook STOKE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 2 0 99.9
Wessex Water River Tone BARTON LANE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Unknown BRIDGWATER ROAD CSO 0 0 95.3
Wessex Water Kingston Stream LONGACRE CLOSE PS 0 0 99.9
Wessex Water River Tone MAIDENBROOK PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water - Sedgemoor Old Rhyne MEARE GREEN STOKE ST GREGORY PS 0 0 99.9
Wessex Water Galmington Stream Via Sws NEWBARN PARK CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Ditch QUEEN SQUARE CSO 0 0 92.7
Wessex Water Unnamed Stream RUMWELL SEWAGE P. STN 0 0 99.9
Wessex Water Back Stream Via Sws THE BASINS SEWER CSO 0 0 99.8
Wessex Water Gaol Stream Via Sws WILTON ORCHARD CAR PARK CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Haymoor Main Drain Sws WINDMILL HILL COMBINED SEWER OF 0 0 99.3

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

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