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River Stour polluted by sewage 17 times in 2025 - lasting 64 hours

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Totals for River Stour in 2025
4 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
17 sewage dumps
64 h duration
That's 2.67 days. 1.4 times a month, over the year
Places along River Stour

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Stour in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water River Stour GREAT WRATTING SP 9 59 100
Anglian Water River Stour BURES HAMLET PS 1 2 100
Anglian Water River Stour SUDBURY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 2 2 97.9
Anglian Water River Stour SUDBURY THE CROFT CSO 5 0 99.9
Anglian Water River Stour BRANTHAM - FACTORY LANE (B) TPS 0 0 92.3

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

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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