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Mid Bedfordshire

Polluted by sewage 217 times in 2025 lasting 1,994 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Mid Bedfordshire in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 771 hours of sewage overflows, from 31 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Mid Bedfordshire in 2025

13 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
217 sewage dumps
1,994 hours duration
That's 2.77 months. 4.2 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Mid Bedfordshire 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 1 of the total 16 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water Marston Brook MARSTON MORETAINE WRC 76 913 100
Anglian Water Campton Brook, R Ivel SHILLINGTON STW CSO 23 220 100
Anglian Water Barton Brook BARTON LE CLAY WATER RECYCLING CNTR 27 218 100
Anglian Water Crawlwy Brook River Ouzel WOBURN STW (PS ONLY AS OF 01/04/90) 16 181 100
Anglian Water Fancott Brook CONGER LANE STORM OVERFLOW 28 175 96.7
Anglian Water Barton Brook BARTON PS 11 171 97.8
Anglian Water To River Flit GREENFIELD - MILL LANE TPS 5 33 100
Anglian Water River Flit SILSOE HIGH STREET CSO 11 29 99.9
Anglian Water To River Flit TODDINGTON TPS 8 17 100
Anglian Water Brook Duck End Elstow Brook STORM OVERFLOW AT DUCK END 2 10 99.2
Anglian Water River Flit CLOPHILL (CAUSEWAY) CSO 3 10 100
Anglian Water Running Water River Flit FLITWICK STW 2 9 100
Anglian Water Fancott Brook TODDINGTON - LUTON ROAD CSO 5 4 99.8
Anglian Water Flitwick Mill Channel River Fl FLITWICK SPS 0 0 100
Anglian Water Marston Brook MARSTON STATION RD TPS 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Flit PARK ROAD SSO 0 0 44.5

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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