Water company · South West
Recent spills
Serves Dorset, Somerset, Bristol, Wiltshire, parts of Hampshire. Major rivers: Avon, Stour, Frome, Brue.
Wessex Water operates 1,427 monitored storm overflows. 9 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 10 weeks across 428 events on average. The Truth Engine has 17 open flags against them right now.
1,427
Storm overflows
0
Active right now
9
Monitors offline
17
Open flags
107
Spills · last 7 days
10 weeks
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
9.8 h
Avg event length · 30 days
96
Spills · last 24 hours
4,665
spill events
+12176% vs prior 12m
673,335h
cumulative discharge
+812507% vs prior 12m
12 weeks
longest single event (all time)
2024-12-13
first event on record
Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, Wessex Water averaged 1.2h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 23.6h per overflow. ranked 2 of 10 of UK water companies by 30-day spill hours per monitored overflow.
The 12 watercourses with the most Wessex Water overflows discharging into them.