Hitchin was polluted by sewage 219 times in 2024
lasting 2,097 hours

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Live data for Hitchin in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:00 PM) there has been 146 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Hitchin in 2024
8 Sites polluted by Anglian Water, Thames Water
219 sewage dumps
2,097 h duration
That's 2.91 months. 4.2 times a week, on average
Change Over Time
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Daily Data
We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Hitchin, 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 Hitchin 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 9 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 Ash Brook, River Great Ouse ASHBROOK WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 52 639 94
Anglian Water River Ivel POPPYHILL WRC 36 536 100
Anglian Water River Hiz HITCHIN WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 65 422 64.9
Thames Water River Mimram WHITWELL WWTW 36 393 96.2
Anglian Water Tingewick Brook STOTFOLD - BROOK END PS 11 58 100
Anglian Water Unknown POUND FARM PUMPING STATION 6 24 100
Anglian Water River Hiz CSO AND EO AT PIRTON TPS 11 19 100
Anglian Water River Hiz BANCROFT RECREATION GROUND CSO 2 3 100
Anglian Water Henlow Brook CLIFTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 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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