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Worst beaches for sewage in Southend-on-Sea

6 bathing waters ranked by the storm-overflow spills the Environment Agency links to them in 2025. The other 2 in Southend-on-Sea have no comparable 2025 record, which is not the same as a clean one.

Spills in 2025

  1. 1 Shoeburyness 69 from 1 overflow -18% since 2024
  2. 2 Southend Jubilee 66 from 10 overflows -70% since 2024
  3. 3 Southend Three Shells 38 from 6 overflows -17% since 2024
  4. 4 Westcliff Bay, Southend 20 from 5 overflows -9% since 2024
  5. 5 Leigh Bell Wharf 11 from 4 overflows -45% since 2024
  6. 6 Shoebury East 0 from 1 overflow

How this is counted

Each figure counts spills from the storm overflows the Environment Agency links to that bathing water in its annual Event Duration Monitoring return, so it follows the sewer network rather than a map radius. Spills only: the return's duration column is not reliable enough to publish.

1 bathing water is missing from this table despite holding a record for earlier years, because it has no comparable 2025 figure. No cause is named here: an operator can be absent from one area's table and reporting normally everywhere else.

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