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. 3 are currently spilling. 47 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 7.2 years across 956 events on average. The Truth Engine has 156 open flags against them right now.
1,438
Storm overflows
3
Active right now
47
Monitors offline
156
Open flags
239
Spills · last 7 days
7.2 years
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
46.6 h
Avg event length · 30 days
32
Spills · last 24 hours
8,419
spill events
+5871% vs prior 12m
1,377,242h
cumulative discharge
+46833% vs prior 12m
35 weeks
longest single event (all time)
2023-11-29
first event on record
Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, Anglian Water averaged 44.0h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 23.6h per overflow. ranked 9 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.