Peterborough was polluted by sewage 79 times in 2023
lasting 319 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Peterborough in 2023
7 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
79 sewage dumps
319 h duration
That's 13.29 days. 1.5 times a week, on average
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Peterborough in 2023. 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 10 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 2 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water New Wryde Drain THORNEY STW 38 178 100
Anglian Water Car Dyke SSO AT ST PEGAS ROAD 9 72 67
Anglian Water Werrington Brook PETERBOROUGH - ULLSWATER AVE CSO 4 22 100
Anglian Water Cat'S Water PETERBOROUGH ROAD PS 6 21 100
Anglian Water River Nene PETERBOROUGH RIVER LANE CSO 20 17 100
Anglian Water Werrington Brook PETERBOROUGH-WERRTON LINCOLN ROAD 1 5 49.9
Anglian Water Werrington Brook PETERBOROUGH WERRTON FENBRIDGE TPS 1 2 100
Anglian Water Unnamed Watercourse BRETTON NORTH PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Anglian Water Car Dyke EYE ROAD SPS 0 0 0
Anglian Water River Nene PETERBOROUGH MIDGATE CITY ROAD CSO 0 0 0

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.

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