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. 11 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 6 weeks across 208 events on average. The Truth Engine has 11 open flags against them right now.
1,427
Storm overflows
0
Active right now
11
Monitors offline
11
Open flags
52
Spills · last 7 days
6 weeks
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
38 min
Avg event length · 30 days
21
Spills · last 24 hours
6,355
spill events
+9246% vs prior 12m
15,530h
cumulative discharge
+17074% vs prior 12m
17 weeks
longest single event (all time)
2024-12-13
first event on record
Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, Wessex Water averaged 0.7h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 2.3h 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.