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River Sheppey polluted by sewage 98 times in 2025 - lasting 680 hours

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Totals for River Sheppey in 2025
7 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
98 sewage dumps
680 h duration
That's 4.05 weeks. 1.9 times a week, on average
Constituencies along River Sheppey
Places along River Sheppey

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water River Sheppey SHEPTON MALLET WWTW 36 460 99.8
Wessex Water River Sheppey MILL LANE PUMPING STATION 32 139 100
Wessex Water River Sheppey COXLEY RIPPLE PUMPING STATION 5 45 99.5
Wessex Water River Sheppey SUNNY MOUNT CSO 15 24 100
Wessex Water River Sheppey CROSCOMBE STW 2 7 100
Wessex Water River Sheppey LONG STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 2 4 93.4
Wessex Water River Sheppey CATS ASH COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 6 0 96.5
Wessex Water River Sheppey MANOR HOUSE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 96.3

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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