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Reading West and Mid Berkshire - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 4,013 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 721 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Reading West and Mid Berkshire for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 1,198 hours , 472 offline
Feb - 1,517 hours , 248 offline
Mar - 795 hours
Apr - 182 hours
May - 2 hours
Jun - 1 hours
Jul - 0 hours
Aug - 0 hours
Sept - 2 hours
Oct - 0 hours
Nov - 11 hours
Dec - 302 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Thames Water Compton STW River Pang 79 1,332h 30m -
Thames Water Hampstead Norreys STW River Pang 33 628h 30m -
Thames Water Burghfield STW Clay Hill Brook 31 594h 45m -
Thames Water Pangbourne STW River Sul 14 271h -
Thames Water Aldermaston STW Groundwater Via Land Treatment 25 211h 45m -
Thames Water Chapel Row STW River Bourne 15 185h 15m 434 h
Thames Water Mortimer STW Foudry Brook 11 181h 45m 286 h
Thames Water Briff Lane (Bucklebury) STW Briff Lane Stream 18 175h 15m -
Thames Water Mortimer STW Foudry Brook 8 130h 30m -
Thames Water Beenham STW Webbs Lane Stream 14 130h 15m -
Thames Water Burghfield STW Clay Hill Brook 4 59h 30m -
Thames Water Briff Lane (Bucklebury) STW Briff Lane Stream 4 42h 45m -
Thames Water Chapel Row STW River Bourne 3 37h 30m -
Thames Water Aldermaston STW Groundwater Via Land Treatment 3 25h 30m -
Thames Water Midgham STW Kennet 1 6h 15m -
Thames Water Pangbourne STW River Sul 0 0h -
Thames Water Midgham STW Kennet 0 0h -
Thames Water Beenham STW Webbs Lane Stream 0 0h -
Thames Water Compton STW River Pang 0 0h -
Thames Water Hampstead Norreys STW River Pang 0 0h -

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.