North East Hertfordshire

Polluted by sewage 537 times in 2024 lasting 7,560 hours

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Live data for North East Hertfordshire in 2025

So far this year (as of Nov 17, 2025, 8:30 AM) there has been 1,955 hours of sewage overflows, from 18 CSOs

Totals for North East Hertfordshire in 2024

11 Sites polluted by Anglian Water, Thames Water

537 sewage dumps

7,560 hours duration

That's 10.5 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North East Hertfordshire 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 %
Thames Water	Cottered Brook	COTTERED WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	190	3,648	99.7
Thames Water	River Quin	BARKWAY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	70	1,296	100
Thames Water	River Beane	WESTON (HERTS) WWTW	86	1,201	100
Thames Water	River Rib	THERFIELD WTW	34	443	99.8
Anglian Water	River Rhee	ASHWELL WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	45	421	94
Thames Water	River Rib	BUNTINGFORD WWTW	31	237	100
Thames Water	River Rib	STANDON STW, STANDON, HERTS	17	100	99.8
Anglian Water	Fowlmere Stream	BARLEY STW	30	86	100
Thames Water	Rib	Chapmore End	17	66	100
Anglian Water	Pix Brook	LETCHWORTH-NORTON COMMON CSO	15	45	100
Anglian Water	Cat Of River Ivel	SANDON STW	2	13	99.4
Anglian Water	Onto Land	BALDOCK PS	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Pix Brook, River Gt Ouse	LETCHWORTH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	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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