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Polluted by sewage 1,460 times in 2024 lasting 19,499 hours - That's 2.26 years!
So far this year (as of May 4, 2025, 5:16 AM) there has been 2,109 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.24 years!
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Banbury, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Banbury in 2024. 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 all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thames Water | Shutford Stream | SHUTFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS | 190 | 2,977 | 100 |
| Thames Water | Hanwell Brook | HANWELL WWTW | 152 | 2,718 | 95.8 |
| Thames Water | River Cherwell | BANBURY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS | 126 | 1,861 | 98.5 |
| Thames Water | Cherwell | CROPREDY STW, WILLIAMSCOTT ROAD, CR | 147 | 1,725 | 98.6 |
| Thames Water | River Cherwell | WARDINGTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION | 124 | 1,707 | 90 |
| Thames Water | Sor Brook | HORLEY (OXON) WWTW | 120 | 1,381 | 100 |
| Thames Water | Chadlingtonstream | CHADLINGTON STW, CHADLINGTON, OXON | 84 | 1,311 | 99.8 |
| Thames Water | Bloxham Brook | BLOXHAM STW, BLOXHAM, OXON | 71 | 1,124 | 100 |
| Thames Water | Little Compton Stream | LITTLE COMPTON STW, LITTLE COMPTON, | 69 | 931 | 99.7 |
| Thames Water | Blue Brook | CHIPPING NORTON STW | 56 | 834 | 99.9 |
| Thames Water | Hook Nortonbrook | HOOK NORTON STW, HOOK NORTON, OXON | 42 | 559 | 99 |
| Anglian Water | Padbury Brook River Great Ouse | FRITWELL STW | 50 | 526 | 100 |
| Thames Water | Hornton Stream | HORNTON STW, HORNTON, BANBURY, OXON | 47 | 503 | 99.7 |
| Thames Water | River Dorn | MIDDLE BARTON WWTW | 44 | 370 | 100 |
| Thames Water | River Evenlode | FINSTOCK STW, FINSTOCK, OXON | 38 | 363 | 100 |
| Thames Water | Clifton Brook | CLIFTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS | 36 | 212 | 100 |
| Thames Water | Evenlode | CHARLBURY WWTW | 22 | 197 | 100 |
| Thames Water | Cornwell Brook | KINGHAM SEWAGE PUMPING STATION | 23 | 108 | 99.5 |
| Thames Water | River Cherwell | LOWER CHERWELL ST WPS, BANBURY | 14 | 56 | 100 |
| Thames Water | Cherwell | Fergusson Road, Banbury | 5 | 28 | 100 |
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.
This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.
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