Banbury polluted by sewage 326 times in 2022 - lasting 2,741 hours

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Totals for Banbury in 2022
16 Sites polluted by Anglian Water, Thames Water
326 sewage dumps
2,741 h duration
That's 3.81 months. 6.3 times a week, on average
Live River Pollution Information (Updated 2 hours ago)
On the map above you can see live river pollution information. Rivers likely to be impacted by sewage pollution are marked in brown. This is based on Thames Water live data API, and modelling by Dr Alex Lipp at Merton College, Oxford. More details on the methodology will be added soon.
Daily Data for 2023
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Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Banbury in 2022. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Thames Water Bloxham Brook, Sor Brk BLOXHAM STW, BLOXHAM, OXON 61 953 100
Thames Water Cherwell CROPREDY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 44 448 100
Anglian Water Padbury Brook River Great Ouse FRITWELL STW 30 270 99.2
Thames Water Cherwell BANBURY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 30 245 97.8
Thames Water Langford Brook BICESTER WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 25 226 100
Thames Water River Cherwell WARDINGTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 43 185 78.3
Thames Water Shutford Stream SHUTFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 10 134 99.7
Thames Water Sor Brook HORLEY (OXON) WWTW 17 74 100
Thames Water Cherwell HEYFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 11 57 95.2
Thames Water Gagle Brook MIDDLETON STONEY WWTW 15 45 97.5
Thames Water Hornton Stream HORNTON WWTW 5 38 99.9
Thames Water Hanwell Brook HANWELL WWTW 18 32 96.7
Thames Water Hook Nortonbrook HOOK NORTON STW, HOOK NORTON, OXON 7 12 99.8
Thames Water Clifton Brook CLIFTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 3 10 100
Thames Water River Cherwell LOWER CHERWELL ST WPS, BANBURY 6 5 100
Anglian Water Stoke Lyne Brook ARDLEY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 1 0 100
Thames Water Cherwell Fergusson Road, Banbury 0 0 70.2
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

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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