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Hitchin

Polluted by sewage 59 times in 2025 lasting 295 hours

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Live data for Hitchin in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 43 hours of sewage overflows, from 21 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Hitchin in 2025

8 Sites polluted by Anglian Water Thames Water
59 sewage dumps
295 hours duration
That's 1.76 weeks. 1.1 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Hitchin 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 River Mimram WHITWELL WWTW 13 96 95.5
Anglian Water Ash Brook, River Great Ouse ASHBROOK WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 7 79 100
Anglian Water Henlow Brook CLIFTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 12 72 100
Anglian Water River Hiz HITCHIN WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 16 25 99.9
Anglian Water River Ivel POPPYHILL WRC 5 16 100
Anglian Water Unknown POUND FARM PUMPING STATION 2 2 100
Anglian Water Tingewick Brook STOTFOLD - BROOK END PS 2 1 100
Anglian Water River Hiz CSO AND EO AT PIRTON TPS 2 1 99.2
Anglian Water River Hiz BANCROFT RECREATION GROUND CSO 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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