Event Duration Monitoring data - provided by water firms and released today by the Environment Agency - revealed that untreated sewage was discharged into England’s waterways for 1,754,921 hours in 2022 – which is the equivalent of 200 years.
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Use the interactive map below to view details of the sewage spills recorded in the Environment Agency’s latest dataset, including the locations of monitored sewer storm overflows, the number of times they discharged sewage in 2022, the long term average spill count, the total duration, and the water company responsible.
© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2022. All rights reserved. Note: this map has been created using the data in the Environment Agency’s 2022 Event Duration Monitoring dataset. Any errors in the locations of the discharges are as a result of errors in the Environment Agency’s own dataset.