Ely and East Cambridgeshire was polluted by sewage 1,191 times in 2024
lasting 9,969 hours - that's 1.15 years!

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Live data for Ely and East Cambridgeshire in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:00 PM) there has been 644 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.07 years!

Totals for Ely and East Cambridgeshire in 2024

42 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

1,191 sewage dumps
9,969 h duration

That's 1.15 years! On average 3.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Ely and East Cambridgeshire

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Ely and East Cambridgeshire, 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 Ely and East Cambridgeshire 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 49 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	Stretham Catchwater	NEWMARKET RD TERMINAL PS	89	1,054	100
Anglian Water	River Great Ouse	ELY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE (OLD)	63	866	94.7
Anglian Water	Aldreth Canal	HADDENHAM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	60	850	100
Anglian Water	Fen Drain River Great Ouse	WITCHFORD STW	69	669	99.9
Anglian Water	Counter Drain	SUTTON - STH OF THE ROW CSO	46	607	98.8
Anglian Water	Ouse River	ELY (NEW) WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	45	555	94.2
Anglian Water	Mare Fen Drain	LITTLEPORT WRC	49	549	100
Anglian Water	Swaffham Bulbeck Lode	BOTTISHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	34	501	100
Anglian Water	Grunty Fen Catchwater	WILBURTON WRC TPS	44	414	100
Anglian Water	Newmarket No.1 Public Drain	DULLINGHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	48	360	90
Anglian Water	Soham Lode	SOHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	26	358	100
Anglian Water	Witcham Catchwater River Ouse	WITCHAM STW	31	356	100
Anglian Water	Beach Ditch	HISTON ROAD SPS	25	353	99.9
Anglian Water	Pipers Hill Drain River Great	LITTLE DOWNHAM WATER RECYCLING CNTR	53	326	100
Anglian Water	Soham Lode	DRURY LA PS	26	305	100
Anglian Water	Thetford Catchwater	MAIN ST PS LITTLE THETFORD	20	258	99.8
Anglian Water	Grunty Fen Drain	BROADWAY TERMINAL PS	38	231	100
Anglian Water	Catchwater Drain	BURWELL STW STORM TANKS & EO	30	189	100
Anglian Water	Ten Mile River	COVENEY CSO	56	187	100
Anglian Water	Middle Fen Drain	STUNTNEY LOWER STREET PS	20	168	100
Anglian Water	One Hundred Foot Dra	MAIN ST PS	15	123	100
Anglian Water	Soham Lode	MILL CORNER TPS	12	94	99
Anglian Water	Hundred Foot Drain	LAWN LANE TERMINAL PS	15	90	100
Anglian Water	Trb Newmarket No2 Public Drain	BROOMSTICK CORNER CSO	16	85	51.9
Anglian Water	Hundred Foot	HADDENHAM - NEW TOWN ROAD PS	11	78	96.7
Anglian Water	Unnamed South Fen Drain	STATION RD	118	71	100
Anglian Water	River Great Ouse	BERRY GREEN PS	10	54	100
Anglian Water	Unnamed Ely Ou	LITTLEPORT-HOOF CLOSE CSO	43	53	100
Anglian Water	Unknown	PS HILL ROW	9	34	100
Anglian Water	Littleport	EAGLES LANE PS	2	21	75.1
Anglian Water	Unknown	WITCHAM	9	18	32.4
Anglian Water	Stretham Catchwater River Grea	STRETHAM STW	4	16	77.8
Anglian Water	Relief Channel	WALSINGHAM WAY CSO	19	15	100
Anglian Water	River Kennett	CHIPPENHAM WATER RECYCLING CTR PS	11	14	94
Anglian Water	Hundred Foot River	LITTLE DOWNHAM CALIFORNIA HSE CSO	11	11	100
Anglian Water	Un Sedge Fen Dr	COVENEY - SCHOOL LANE PS	2	8	100
Anglian Water	Swaffham Bulbeck Lode	TUNBRIDGE LA PS	5	8	100
Anglian Water	Catchwater Drain Cottenham Lod	BROAD LANE PS	1	2	100
Anglian Water	River Great Ouse	ELY WILLOW WALK TPS	1	1	100
Anglian Water	Soham Lode	SOHAM CHERRY TREE PUMPING STATION	1	1	100
Anglian Water	Grunty Fen Drain	STATION RD PS HADDENHAM	2	0	29.5
Anglian Water	River Great Ouse	ELY LISLE LANE	2	0	100
Anglian Water	Pypers Hill Drain	LITTLE DOWNHAM WEST FEN PS	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Folly River	WENTWORTH - COLLEGE FARM PS	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Hundred Ft Drain	WARDY HILL - WITCHAM RD TPS	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Catchwater Drn - Burwell Lode	BURWELL WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Littleport	STRAIGHT FURLONG PS	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Snall	SO FORDHAM	0	0	92.9
Anglian Water	Fen Drain River Great Ouse	CHAPEL TPS	0	0	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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