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Chesham and Amersham - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 501 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 1,839 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Chesham and Amersham for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 252 hours , 744 offline
Feb - 117 hours , 392 offline
Mar - 104 hours
Apr - 7 hours
May - 0 hours
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
Aug - 0 hours
Sept - 2 hours , 185 offline
Oct - 0 hours , 517 offline
Nov - 12 hours
Dec - 4 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Thames Water Amersham balancing tanks/amersham vale stk Misbourne 29 437 h 15m 702 h
Thames Water Chesham STW River Chess 6 53 h 30m -
Thames Water FULMER DRIVE CSO Alderbourne 3 6 h 4m 1,136 h
Thames Water Chesham STW River Chess 1 4 h 15m -
Thames Water Amersham balancing tanks/amersham vale stk Misbourne 0 0 h -
Thames Water FULMER DRIVE CSO Alderbourne 0 0 h -

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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.