Banbury was polluted by sewage 700 times in 2023
lasting 7,377 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Banbury in 2023
17 Sites polluted by Anglian Water, Thames Water
700 sewage dumps
7,377 h duration
That's 10.25 months. On average 1.9 times a day
Change Over Time
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Daily Data Since 2023
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Banbury in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 1 of the total 18 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Thames Water Cherwell CROPREDY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 115 1,461 99.8
Thames Water Bloxham Brook BLOXHAM STW, BLOXHAM, OXON 94 1,434 99.6
Thames Water River Cherwell BANBURY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 79 920 98.1
Thames Water Langford Brook BICESTER WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 66 839 99.2
Thames Water Hanwell Brook HANWELL WWTW 69 775 95.8
Anglian Water Padbury Brook River Great Ouse FRITWELL STW 46 377 98.6
Thames Water River Cherwell WARDINGTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 36 327 43.6
Thames Water Gagle Brook MIDDLETON STONEY WWTW 37 302 100
Thames Water Shutford Stream SHUTFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 38 272 96
Thames Water Cherwell HEYFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 44 271 96.6
Thames Water Sor Brook HORLEY (OXON) WWTW 35 196 99.5
Anglian Water Stoke Lyne Brook ARDLEY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 7 71 100
Thames Water Hook Nortonbrook HOOK NORTON STW, HOOK NORTON, OXON 13 59 96.5
Thames Water Clifton Brook CLIFTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 13 42 99.7
Thames Water Hornton Stream HORNTON WWTW 2 24 99.6
Thames Water River Cherwell LOWER CHERWELL ST WPS, BANBURY 5 1 100
Thames Water Cherwell Fergusson Road, Banbury 1 0 99.8
Thames Water Town Brook BUCKNELL PUMPING STATION, BUCKNELL, 0 0 0

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. This uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

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