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<p>In England, sewage is collected and treated at approximately 5,500 water company
sewage treatment works. Discharges from these works occur on a daily basis and are
permitted by the Environment Agency. Additionally, during wet weather there may be
discharges from storm overflows.</p><p> </p><p>Reports of both the volume of discharges
from sewage treatment works and spill numbers from storm overflows in England are
submitted to the Environment Agency on an annual basis as per the requirements in
the permits. There is no routine requirement to provide reports at three or six monthly
intervals.</p><p> </p><p>While no data is available specifically for the last three
or six months, based on the latest reported data for 2018 the daily average volume
of treated sewage discharge from sewage treatment works was 17.5 billion litres per
day. Spill data was also reported for 6,182 storm overflows in England with a total
of 146,930 spill events during 2018.</p><p> </p><p>There is currently a programme
to install monitoring on the vast majority of overflows in England by 2020. This monitoring
will measure how frequently and for how long an overflow operates.</p>
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