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Wellow Brook polluted by sewage 322 times in 2025 - lasting 1,221 hours

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Totals for Wellow Brook in 2025
11 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
322 sewage dumps
1,221 h duration
That's 1.7 months. 6.2 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water Wellow Brook RADSTOCK WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 76 489 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook SHOSCOMBE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORK 41 341 99.8
Wessex Water Wellow Brook TERRACE WOOD CSO 49 100 97.1
Wessex Water Wellow Brook WELTON HOLLOW CSO 28 91 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook MIDSOMER NORTON CSO 17 67 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook BERKELEY AVENUE CSO 28 58 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook HOME FARM CSO 30 25 90.2
Wessex Water Wellow Brook SOMERVALE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OF 40 24 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook PINE COURT COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 10 16 83.1
Wessex Water Wellow Brook WELLOW WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 2 5 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook FROME ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook MILL HILL PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook RIVERSIDE MEWS CSO 0 0 94
Wessex Water Wellow Brook SINGLE HILL PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook TYNING HILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 95.1
Wessex Water Wellow Brook WALDEGRAVE TERRACE CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Wellow Brook WELLOW LANE PUMPING STATION 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. 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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