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Didcot and Wantage was polluted by sewage 582 times in 2023
lasting 7,842 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Didcot and Wantage in 2023

10 Sites polluted by Thames Water

582 sewage dumps
7,842 h duration

That's 10.89 months. On average 1.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Didcot and Wantage

Daily Data Since 2023

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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Didcot and Wantage 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 1 of the total 11 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Thames Water	Mill Brook	South Moreton	162	2,568	94
Thames Water	Ginge Brook	DRAYTON STW, DRAYTON, OXON	116	1,851	100
Thames Water	Uffington Brook	Uffington	86	1,253	100
Thames Water	Moor Ditch	DIDCOT WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	61	725	98.6
Thames Water	Letcombe Brook	Wantage (storm)	78	533	100
Thames Water	Clifton Hampden Ditch	CULHAM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	32	509	99.7
Thames Water	Odhay Hill Ditch/River Thames	ABINGDON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	38	353	100
Thames Water	River Ock	STANFORD IN THE VALE STW	2	27	100
Thames Water	Thames	Littlemore Low Level	5	17	99.5
Thames Water	Cholsey Brook	CHOLSEY STW, CHOLSEY, WALLINGFORD,	2	4	99.9
Thames Water	River Thames	Mackney Lane (Main)	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, 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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