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North Bedfordshire

Polluted by sewage 246 times in 2025 lasting 2,838 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for North Bedfordshire in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 4,090 hours of sewage overflows, from 52 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for North Bedfordshire in 2025

24 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
246 sewage dumps
2,838 hours duration
That's 3.94 months. 4.7 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North 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 2 of the total 28 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. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water Keysoe Brook. River Kym PERTENHALL STW 80 1,273 99.5
Anglian Water Duloe Brook BOLNHURST STW 40 611 99.9
Anglian Water Stone Brook TEMPSFORD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 20 294 97.7
Anglian Water River Kym LITTLE STAUGHTON(N) STW 22 284 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse ODELL WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 10 111 99.7
Anglian Water River Ivel SANDY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 7 74 100
Anglian Water River Ivel NORTHILL - ICKWELL ROAD PS 4 39 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse PAVENHAM MILL LANE PUMPING STATION 11 39 100
Anglian Water Riseley Brook River Kym RISELEY STW 5 23 100
Anglian Water Unknown TURVEY SO 5 18 100
Anglian Water River Ivel SANDY - GIRTFORD CSO 6 17 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse SEWERS AT VILLAGE ROAD 4 14 99.2
Anglian Water Ravensden Brook - River Great Ouse THURLEIGH PS CSO AND EO 2 12 98
Anglian Water Pictshill Brook, Gt Ouse TURVEY STATION RD PUMPING STATION 7 10 99.9
Anglian Water River Ivel BIGGLESWADE - SHORTMEAD ST TPS 2 4 100
Anglian Water Millbridge POTTON - ROYSTON STREET CSO 4 2 90.1
Anglian Water Thurleigh Brook THURLEIGH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 4 1 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse ROXTON(SCHOOL LANE) PUMPING STATION 4 1 99.9
Anglian Water Stevington Brook STEVINGTON EO/SSO 1 1 49
Anglian Water River Ivel SANDY - HIGH STREET CSO 2 0 100
Anglian Water River Kym KIMBOLTON 1 0 99.9
Anglian Water Riseley Brook River Ky SWINESHEAD(BEDS) STW 1 0 100
Anglian Water Stone Brook / River Gt Ouse EVERTON STW 1 0 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse TURVEY (COTTAGES) STW 3 0 100
Anglian Water River Ivel BIGGLESWADE DARK LANE CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Ivel BIGGLESWADE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 0 0 99.3
Anglian Water River Ouse IBBETT CLOSE PS 0 0 0
Anglian Water River Great Ouse KEMPSTON VILLAGE HALL 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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