North Sea polluted by sewage 850 times in 2024 - lasting 3,361 hours

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Totals for North Sea in 2024
26 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
850 sewage dumps
3,361 h duration
That's 4.67 months. On average 2.3 times a day
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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North Sea in 2024. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON (HOLLAND HAVEN) WRC 117 686 100
Anglian Water North Sea CROMER WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 91 523 99.9
Anglian Water North Sea JAYWICK WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 86 504 98.9
Anglian Water North Sea CAISTER- HEADWORKS PS 71 430 99.5
Anglian Water North Sea MUNDESLEY-KNAPTON ROAD WRC 87 371 100
Anglian Water North Sea NESS POINT PUMPING STATION 99 172 100
Anglian Water North Sea ALDEBURGH STW 90 171 100
Anglian Water North Sea INGOLDMELLS WRC 36 133 97
Anglian Water North Sea WEST RUNTON WATER LANE PUMPING ST. 32 116 100
Anglian Water North Sea WALTON-ON-THE-NAZE TERMINAL PS 22 65 100
Anglian Water North Sea CORTON BAKERS SCORE PUMPING STATION 32 59 100
Anglian Water North Sea JAYWICK CLACTON 23 PARK SQUARE CSO 13 44 100
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON SEA FRONT / GUNFLEET CSO 2 14 100
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON VICTORIA ROAD CSO 18 14 100
Anglian Water North Sea NESS POINT PUMPING STATION 9 13 100
Anglian Water North Sea PROMENADE SEWER STORAGE TANK 14 12 100
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON WEST ROAD TERMINAL PS 5 12 100
Anglian Water North Sea MUNDESLEY - THE PROM PS 2 6 100
Anglian Water North Sea CORTON - CHURCH LANE TPS 3 2 100
Anglian Water North Sea EAST RUNTON BEACH ROAD TERMINAL PS 5 1 100
Anglian Water North Sea QUEENS ROAD/ESPLANADE CSO 2 0 100
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON PARK ROAD/VICARAGE GRD CSO 3 0 100
Anglian Water North Sea FRINTON - ESPLANADE/SECOND AVE CSO 4 0 100
Anglian Water North Sea CLACTON COLLINGWOOD RD/WASH LN CSO 2 0 100
Anglian Water North Sea CROMER PROMENADE TERMINAL PS 2 0 100
Anglian Water North Sea JAYWICK BROOKLANDS GARDENS PS 3 0 100
Anglian Water North Sea SHERINGHM EBEACH SEW TK 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.

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