Top of the Poops | Constituency | Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard| Polluted by Anglian Water

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Live data for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard in 2025

So far this year (as of May 9, 2025, 9:00 AM) there has been 961 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard in 2024

4 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

96 sewage dumps

288 hours duration

That's 12 days. 1.8 times a week, on average

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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard 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 all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Anglian Water	River Ouzel	SO LEIGHTON BUZZARD	68	204	99.8
Anglian Water	River Ouzel	LEIGHTON BUZZARD - CHAINBRIDGE PS	16	67	100
Anglian Water	Ouzel Brook	DUNSTABLE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	4	9	100
Anglian Water	River Ouzel	BOSSINGTON LANE CSO	8	7	99.8

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EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

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Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard Polluted by sewage 96 times in 2024 lasting 288 hours

Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard