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Anglian Water

Serves the East of England — Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Lincolnshire. Major rivers: Great Ouse, Nene, Welland, Stour.

Anglian Water operates 1,438 monitored storm overflows. 1 is currently spilling. 42 monitors are offline. The data records a cumulative discharge of 20 weeks across this operator's network in the last 30 days across an estimated 1,176 events. The Truth Engine has 116 open flags for this operator's overflows right now.

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1,438

Storm overflows

1

Active right now

42

Monitors offline

116

Open flags

294

Spills · last 7 days

20 weeks

Cumulative discharge · 30 days

41 min

Avg event length · 30 days

38

Spills · last 24 hours

Spill record· since 6 May 2026 · network-wide

17,994

spill events

18,474h

cumulative discharge

13 weeks

longest single event

2026-05-06

first event on record

Across 11 water companies in the EA dataset, Anglian Water averaged 2.4h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 3.9h per overflow. ranked 3 of 11 of UK water companies by 30-day spill hours per monitored overflow.

Most-discharged-into watercourses

The 12 watercourses with the most Anglian Water overflows discharging into them.

Currently spilling· 1

  1. 01

    TIMBERMANS CREEK

    AWS00994 · spilling for 1.1 h

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Truth Engine flags against Anglian Water· 25 open

Monitors offline· 42