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. 16 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 17 years across 76 events on average. The Truth Engine has 151 open flags against them right now.
1,427
Storm overflows
0
Active right now
16
Monitors offline
151
Open flags
19
Spills · last 7 days
17 years
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
3 days
Avg event length · 30 days
5
Spills · last 24 hours
3,670
spill events
+11739% vs prior 12m
170,065h
cumulative discharge
+206722% vs prior 12m
5 weeks
longest single event (all time)
2024-12-13
first event on record
Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, Wessex Water averaged 104.1h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 107.5h per overflow. ranked 5 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.