South Cambridgeshire was polluted by sewage 728 times in 2024
lasting 9,719 hours - that's 1.12 years!

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Live data for South Cambridgeshire in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:15 PM) there has been 1,486 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.17 years!

Totals for South Cambridgeshire in 2024

13 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

728 sewage dumps
9,719 h duration

That's 1.12 years! On average 2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in South Cambridgeshire

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for South Cambridgeshire, 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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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Cambridgeshire 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 15 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	Quy Water Bottisham Lode	TEVERSHAM STW	167	3,182	97.8
Anglian Water	River Rhee	HASLINGFIELD WRC	128	2,408	93.1
Anglian Water	River Rhee	MEADOWCROFT WAY	55	1,041	99.5
Anglian Water	Mel Brook Leading To R Rhee	MELBOURN WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	119	975	98.5
Anglian Water	Tit Brook	WIMPOLE ROAD PS	49	677	100
Anglian Water	River Cam	SAWSTON STW	24	378	99.6
Anglian Water	Bin Brook	HARDWICK EAST PUMPING STATION	31	374	100
Anglian Water	Millbridge Brook	HATLEY ST. GEORGE	20	313	98
Anglian Water	Little Wilbraham River	BALSHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	27	201	86.2
Anglian Water	River Rhee	BARRINGTON SLID LANE 2 CSO	60	105	100
Anglian Water	River Rhee	GUILDEN MORDEN STW	33	48	99.9
Anglian Water	River Granta	LINTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	13	9	100
Anglian Water	Whaddon Brook To River Rhee	ROYSTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	2	4	100
Anglian Water	Unnamed Watercourse	GT CHISHILL RD PUMPING STATION	0	0	99.9
Anglian Water	River Granta	LINTON RECREATION GROUND TERMINAL S	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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