South Cambridgeshire was polluted by sewage 745 times in 2023
lasting 9,908 hours - that's 1.15 years!

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Totals for South Cambridgeshire in 2023
19 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
745 sewage dumps
9,908 h duration
That's 1.15 years! On average 2 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Cambridgeshire 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 0 of the total 22 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 %
Anglian Water River Rhee HASLINGFIELD WRC 172 2,935 100
Anglian Water Unnamed Culverted Watercourse HARDWICK (W) PS 125 2,637 100
Anglian Water Bin Brook HARDWICK EAST PUMPING STATION 46 719 100
Anglian Water Swavesey Drain UTTONS DROVE WATER RECYCLING CENTR 24 553 99.6
Anglian Water River Rhee MEADOWCROFT WAY 37 548 100
Anglian Water Tit Brook WIMPOLE ROAD PS 36 429 100
Anglian Water Elsworth Brook ELSWORTH - ROGERS CLOSE PS 28 347 100
Anglian Water Mel Brook Leading To R Rhee MELBOURN WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 52 345 100
Anglian Water Beach Ditch HISTON ROAD SPS 26 338 100
Anglian Water Millbridge Brook HATLEY ST. GEORGE 21 311 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse CONINGTON - FEN DRAYTON RD PS 15 236 100
Anglian Water River Rhee BARRINGTON SLID LANE 2 CSO 85 216 100
Anglian Water West Brook PAPWORTH EVERARD STW 41 95 100
Anglian Water Catchwater Drain Cottenham Lod BROAD LANE PS 4 55 100
Anglian Water Connington Brook KNAPWELL PUMPING STATION 4 51 100
Anglian Water Whaddon Brook To River Rhee ROYSTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 5 37 100
Anglian Water River Rhee GUILDEN MORDEN STW 5 19 100
Anglian Water Un Swavesey Dra HIGH ST TPS BOXWORTH 2 16 100
Anglian Water River Cam ARRINGTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 17 14 100
Anglian Water Unnamed River GREENSIDE CLOSE 0 0 100
Anglian Water Unnamed Watercourse GT CHISHILL RD PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Cam SAWSTON STW 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.

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