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River Brue polluted by sewage 203 times in 2025 - lasting 2,716 hours

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Totals for River Brue in 2025
7 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
203 sewage dumps
2,716 h duration
That's 3.77 months. 3.9 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water River Brue BUTLEIGH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 65 1,048 100
Wessex Water River Brue MEARE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 53 656 100
Wessex Water River Brue HIGHBRIDGE PUMPING STATION 33 444 99.7
Wessex Water River Brue HAVYATT PUMPING STATION 25 297 100
Wessex Water River Brue ALFORD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 17 153 100
Wessex Water River Brue BRUTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 8 110 100
Wessex Water River Brue ACTIS PUMPING STATION 2 5 95.1

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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