North East Hertfordshire was 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 Apr 16, 2025, 6:30 PM) there has been 1,519 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for North East Hertfordshire in 2024
11 Sites polluted by Anglian Water, Thames Water
537 sewage dumps
7,560 h duration
That's 10.5 months. On average 1.5 times a day
Change Over Time
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Daily Data
We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for North East Hertfordshire, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Daily data is experimental and data is not guaranteed to be accurate. Please inform us of any issue, we will fix.

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 0 of the total 13 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

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 Pix Brook, River Gt Ouse LETCHWORTH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 0 0 100
Anglian Water Onto Land BALDOCK PS 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. This 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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