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Henley and Thame

Polluted by sewage 287 times in 2025 lasting 3,796 hours

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Live data for Henley and Thame in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 4,491 hours of sewage overflows, from 29 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Henley and Thame in 2025

12 Sites polluted by Thames Water
287 sewage dumps
3,796 hours duration
That's 5.27 months. 5.5 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Henley and Thame in 2025. 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Thames Water Gainsbridge Brook LITTLE MILTON STW, LITTLE MILTON, O 64 1,310 98.5
Thames Water Wheatley Ditch WHEATLEY STW, WHEATLEY, OXON 76 1,124 100
Thames Water Lashlake Stream THAME WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 30 460 100
Thames Water Howbery Ditch BENSON STW, HENLEY ROAD, BENSON, OX 18 361 96.7
Thames Water Henton Stream CHINNOR STW, CHINNOR, OXON 29 145 99.4
Thames Water Pyrton Stream Watlington 30 137 100
Thames Water Thame DORCHESTER WWTW 15 121 99.9
Thames Water Warpsgrave Ditch CHALGROVE STW, CHALGROVE, OXON 8 56 100
Thames Water Latchford Brook TETSWORTH STW, TETSWORTH, THAME, OX 6 42 100
Thames Water Otmoor Lane Ditch CONSTABLE'S PIECE WWTW 4 24 100
Thames Water Thames Friday Street, Henley 4 9 98
Thames Water Polecat End Ditch Forest Hill 3 4 100
Thames Water Fawley Court Stream HENLEY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 0 0 100
Thames Water Sydenham Stream Manor Farm 0 0 100
Thames Water Thames Reading, Caversham 0 0 91.3
Thames Water Into Land Sonning Common 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. 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.

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