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Luton South and South Bedfordshire was polluted by sewage 134 times in 2023
lasting 2,168 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Luton South and South Bedfordshire in 2023

6 Sites polluted by Anglian Water, Thames Water

134 sewage dumps
2,168 h duration

That's 3.01 months. 2.6 times a week, on average

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Constituencies near Luton South and South Bedfordshire

Waterways in Luton South and South Bedfordshire

Daily Data Since 2023

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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Luton South and South Bedfordshire in 2023. 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 2 of the total 9 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 2 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Anglian Water	Ouzel Brook	STANBRIDGEFORD WRC	126	2,160	100
Thames Water	River Lee	LUTON (EAST HYDE) WWTW	3	3	93.1
Thames Water	River Lee / Lea	CSO AT VAUXHALL MOTORS	2	2	100
Thames Water	River Lee	CSO AT NEW BEDFORD ROAD	1	1	99.3
Thames Water	River Lee	KIMPTON ROAD CSO	1	0	100
Thames Water	River Lee	PARK TOWN CSO	1	0	100
Thames Water	Lee	Barbers Lane	0	0	100
Thames Water	Lee	Wanden End, Luton	0	0	0
Thames Water	River Lee	THE SEWERAGE SYSTEM, LUTON HOO, LUT	0	0	0

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.

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