Banbury was polluted by sewage 1,460 times in 2024
lasting 19,499 hours - that's 2.26 years!

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✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023

Live data for Banbury in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 11, 2025, 3:45 PM) there has been 2,100 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.24 years!

Totals for Banbury in 2024

20 Sites polluted by Anglian Water, Thames Water

1,460 sewage dumps
19,499 h duration

That's 2.26 years! On average 4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Banbury

Daily Data

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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Pollution Summary 2024

Here 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 0 of the total 20 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

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

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.

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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