South East Cambridgeshire was polluted by sewage 762 times in 2023
lasting 7,867 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for South East Cambridgeshire in 2023
34 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
762 sewage dumps
7,867 h duration
That's 10.93 months. On average 2.1 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South East 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 1 of the total 40 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water Dockerell Brook River Great Ou OVER WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 101 1,881 100
Anglian Water Aldreth Canal HADDENHAM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 46 831 100
Anglian Water Fen Drain River Great Ouse WITCHFORD STW 85 681 100
Anglian Water Little Wilbraham River BALSHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 53 619 100
Anglian Water Ouse River ELY (NEW) WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 46 561 100
Anglian Water Stretham Catchwater NEWMARKET RD TERMINAL PS 48 519 100
Anglian Water Grunty Fen Catchwater WILBURTON WRC TPS 45 447 100
Anglian Water Newmarket No.1 Public Drain DULLINGHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 61 353 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse ELY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE (OLD) 22 324 100
Anglian Water Soham Lode DRURY LA PS 19 305 100
Anglian Water Grunty Fen Drain BROADWAY TERMINAL PS 31 228 100
Anglian Water Hundred Foot HADDENHAM - NEW TOWN ROAD PS 29 226 100
Anglian Water Middle Fen Drain STUNTNEY LOWER STREET PS 23 206 100
Anglian Water Quy Water Bottisham Lode TEVERSHAM STW 33 193 100
Anglian Water Soham Lode SOHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 8 96 100
Anglian Water A Littleport WEST FEN RD PS ELY 10 85 100
Anglian Water Bannold Drove Ditch WATERBEACH (OLD) WRC 6 78 100
Anglian Water Dockerel Brook OVER FEN ROAD 19 61 98.9
Anglian Water Thetford Catchwater MAIN ST PS LITTLE THETFORD 3 38 96.3
Anglian Water River Great Ouse BERRY GREEN PS 9 35 100
Anglian Water Unknown PS HILL ROW 6 20 100
Anglian Water Relief Channel WALSINGHAM WAY CSO 9 14 98.8
Anglian Water Swaffham Bulbeck Lode TUNBRIDGE LA PS 2 14 100
Anglian Water River Kennett CHIPPENHAM WATER RECYCLING CTR PS 15 11 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse ELY WILLOW WALK TPS 4 9 100
Anglian Water River Granta LINTON RECREATION GROUND TERMINAL S 2 4 100
Anglian Water Catchwater Drain BURWELL STW STORM TANKS & EO 3 4 100
Anglian Water River Granta LINTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 8 3 100
Anglian Water Trb Newmarket No2 Public Drain BROOMSTICK CORNER CSO 2 3 100
Anglian Water Stretham Catchwater River Grea STRETHAM STW 2 2 100
Anglian Water Soham Lode SOHAM CHERRY TREE PUMPING STATION 5 2 99.8
Anglian Water Soham Lode MILL CORNER TPS 1 1 72.1
Anglian Water River Great Ouse ELY LISLE LANE 5 0 98.6
Anglian Water Swaffham Bulbeck Lode BOTTISHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 1 0 72
Anglian Water River Snall SO FORDHAM 0 0 42.8
Anglian Water Grunty Fen Drain STATION RD PS HADDENHAM 0 0 97.8
Anglian Water Folly River WENTWORTH - COLLEGE FARM PS 0 0 93.8
Anglian Water Catchwater Drn - Burwell Lode BURWELL WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 0 0 100
Anglian Water Unknown WITCHAM 0 0 100
Anglian Water Unknown SSO AT WATERSIDE 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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