Norwich

Polluted by sewage 597 times in 2024 lasting 1,739 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Norwich in 2024

20 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

597 sewage dumps

1,739 hours duration

That's 2.42 months. On average 1.6 times a day

Change Over Time

Waterways in Norwich

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Norwich 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 locality 3 of the total 27 CSO 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	.	ELM HILL OVERFLOW	79	616	99.6
Anglian Water	River Yare	TROWSE TERMINAL PUMPING STATION	43	428	96.2
Anglian Water	River Yare	NORWICH SANDY LANE CSO	109	222	100
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH ANGEL ROAD CSO	30	102	22.6
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH - KETTS HILL CSO	61	94	100
Anglian Water	River Wensum	KING STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	57	71	100
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH LOWER CLOSE (FERRY LN) CSO	76	63	99.8
Anglian Water	Tidal River Yare	WHITLINGHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	6	35	100
Anglian Water	River Wensum	DRAYTON RD NO 3/BOOTBINDER ROAD CSO	17	35	97.3
Anglian Water	River Wensum	GIBRALTAR GARDENS CSO	6	31	99.3
Anglian Water	Dobbs Beck, River Bure	RACKHEATH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	7	9	99.9
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH CEDAR ROAD CSO	31	7	100
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH - PRINCE OF WALES ROAD CSO	25	7	100
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH ST FAITHS LANE CSO	26	6	97.3
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH - KING STREET #2 CSO	14	5	100
Anglian Water	River Wensum	SCHOOL LANE / BEDFORD STREET CSO	3	0	11.6
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH - BARRACK STREET CSO	3	0	100
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH - RIVER LANE CSO	2	0	100
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH - ROSARY ROAD CSO	1	0	100
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH RECORDER ROAD CSO	1	0	100
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH OAK LANE CSO	0	0	99.8
Anglian Water	River Yare	BRACONDALE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH - CHALK HILL ROAD CSO	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH - ELM HILL CSO	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH - NEW MILLS CSO	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH CARROW ROAD CSO	0	0	99.4
Anglian Water	River Wensum	NORWICH COW TOWER CSO	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.

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