Water company · East
Currently spilling
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. 2 are currently spilling. 57 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 18.2 years across 1,292 events on average. The Truth Engine has 273 open flags against them right now.
1,438
Storm overflows
2
Active right now
57
Monitors offline
273
Open flags
323
Spills · last 7 days
18.2 years
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
46.3 h
Avg event length · 30 days
28
Spills · last 24 hours
6,197
spill events
+5859% vs prior 12m
446,734h
cumulative discharge
+14864% vs prior 12m
29 weeks
longest single event (all time)
2023-11-29
first event on record
Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, Anglian Water averaged 111.1h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 107.9h per overflow. ranked 6 of 10 of UK water companies by 30-day spill hours per monitored overflow.
The 12 watercourses with the most Anglian Water overflows discharging into them.