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Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,352 hours in 2025 , potential overflows 791 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard 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 - 271 hours
Feb - 235 hours
Mar - 14 hours , 0 offline
Apr - 0 hours
May - 1 hours
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 2 hours
Aug - 1 hours , 702 potential
Sept - 13 hours , 88 potential
Oct - 1 hours
Nov - 1,308 hours
Dec - 500 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Anglian Water STANBRIDGEFORD STW Ouzel Brook 53 965h 24m -
Anglian Water LEIGHTON LINSLADE STW River Ouzel 28 565h 34m 791 h
Anglian Water LEIGHTON LINSLD-KING ST TPS River Ouzel 41 527h 23m -
Anglian Water LEIGHTON LINSLADE STW River Ouzel 10 188h 30m -
Anglian Water STANBRIDGEFORD STW Ouzel Brook 7 73h 20m -
Anglian Water LEIGHTON LINSLD-KING ST TPS River Ouzel 11 20h 23m -
Anglian Water LEIGHTON BUZD-CHAINBRIDGE SP River Ouzel 6 10h 20m 0 h
Anglian Water LEIGHTON BUZD-BOSSINGTON LN OV River Ouzel 1 1h 14m -
Anglian Water LEIGHTON BUZD-CHAINBRIDGE SP River Ouzel 0 0h -
Anglian Water LEIGHTON BUZD-BOSSINGTON LN OV River Ouzel 0 0h -
Anglian Water DUNSTABLE STW Ouzel Brook 0 0h -

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.