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Cambridge was polluted by sewage 74 times in 2023
lasting 1,476 hours

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Totals for Cambridge in 2023
1 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
74 sewage dumps
1,476 h duration
That's 2.05 months. 1.4 times a week, on average
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Waterways in Cambridge

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Cambridge 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 0 of the total 2 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 %
Anglian Water River Cam CAMBRIDGE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 74 1,476 100
Anglian Water River Cam CAMBRIDGE RIVERSIDE 187 CSO 0 0 90.3

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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