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Luton South and South Bedfordshire

Polluted by sewage 195 times in 2024 lasting 3,344 hours

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Live data for Luton South and South Bedfordshire in 2026

So far this year (as of 24 Feb 2026, 13:30) there has been 40 hours of sewage overflows, from 24 CSOs

Totals for Luton South and South Bedfordshire in 2024

6 Sites polluted by Anglian Water, Thames Water

195 sewage dumps

3,344 hours duration

That's 4.64 months. 3.8 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Luton South and South Bedfordshire 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 all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Anglian Water	Ouzel Brook	STANBRIDGEFORD WRC	160	3,249	90.5
Thames Water	River Lee	LUTON (EAST HYDE) WWTW	20	72	91.6
Thames Water	River Lee	CSO AT NEW BEDFORD ROAD	4	10	100
Thames Water	River Lee / Lea	CSO AT VAUXHALL MOTORS	7	8	99.8
Thames Water	River Lee	KIMPTON ROAD CSO	3	3	100
Thames Water	River Lee	PARK TOWN CSO	1	0	100
Thames Water	Lee	Barbers Lane	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.

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