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Kettering

Polluted by sewage 458 times in 2025 lasting 2,090 hours

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Live data for Kettering in 2026

So far this year (as of 11 Aug 2026, 21:15) there has been 3,526 hours of sewage overflows, from 68 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Kettering in 2025

30 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
458 sewage dumps
2,090 hours duration
That's 2.9 months. On average 1.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Kettering 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 %
Anglian Water Slade Brook THORPE MALSOR STW 118 757 97.6
Anglian Water River Ise River Nene GEDDINGTON STW 23 259 99.2
Anglian Water River Ise COMBINED SEWAGE OVERFLOW 18 205 68.4
Anglian Water River Welland STOKE ALBANY STW 12 152 100
Anglian Water River Welland WESTON BY WELLAND STW 15 139 99.6
Anglian Water River Jordan BRAYBROOKE SPS 8 77 100
Anglian Water River Ise DESBOROUGH-RECTORY FIELD CSO 20 60 75
Anglian Water Pytchley Brook PYTCHLEY SSO 28 60 62.9
Anglian Water Harpers Brook STANION STW 20 53 100
Anglian Water River Welland ASHLEY SPS 13 45 99.5
Anglian Water River Ise KETTERING VALLEY WALK CSO 14 39 91.7
Anglian Water River Ise DESBOROUGH SEWAGE PS 15 38 100
Anglian Water River Ise COMBINED SEWAGE OVERFLOW 10 36 91
Anglian Water East Brook PYTCHLEY RD IND EST SSO 21 35 99.3
Anglian Water Slade Brook GREAT CRANSLEY TPS 4 31 99.8
Anglian Water Slade Brook ROTHWELL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 18 26 99.7
Anglian Water River Ise BURTON LATIMER HIGHAM ROAD CSO 22 23 99.9
Anglian Water Slade Brook BROUGHTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 8 14 99.9
Anglian Water River Ise DESBOROUGH - HILLTOP AVENUE CSO 13 11 60.4
Anglian Water Outlet No 2 Burton Latimer Bro HILLCREST AVE 9 9 73.35
Anglian Water Un-Named River Ise 21 HIGH STREET CSO 17 5 99
Anglian Water Brook River Nene CRANFORD STW 10 2 60.4
Anglian Water River Ise DESBOROUGH-NEAR CORSET FACTORY CSO 6 1 91.6
Anglian Water Slade Brook River Ise ROTHWELL INTERCHANGE 4 1 72.4
Anglian Water Unknown CRAWFORD RD AND CHURCH STREET 2 0 100
Anglian Water River Jordan River Welland BRAYBROOKE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 2 0 100
Anglian Water Pytchley Brook Ise PYTCHLEY STW 5 0 100
Anglian Water River Ise 83 CHURCH STREET CSO 1 0 94.7
Anglian Water Slade Brook BAFFIN CLOSE SSO ROTHWELL 1 0 100
Anglian Water River Ise DESBOROUGH-RUSHTON ROAD SSO 1 0 97
Anglian Water River Ise 30 KETTERING ROAD CSO 0 0 99.6
Anglian Water River Nene DESBOROUGH-RECTORY FIELD CSO 0 0 51.6
Anglian Water River Ise NEWTON SEWERAGE SSO 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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