Wellingborough and Rushden

Polluted by sewage 641 times in 2024 lasting 5,823 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Wellingborough and Rushden in 2025

So far this year (as of May 7, 2025, 6:45 AM) there has been 1,056 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Wellingborough and Rushden in 2024

22 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
641 sewage dumps
5,823 hours duration
That's 8.09 months. On average 1.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Wellingborough and Rushden, 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 Wellingborough and Rushden 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 2 of the total 26 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water River Nene CHELVESTON - WATER LANE PS 124 2,444 99.9
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook MONKS WAY CSO 135 1,154 77.5
Anglian Water River Ise 5 SSO AT WELLINGBOROUGH 71 515 100
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook WELLINGBOROUGH-MARKET STREET CSO 31 318 99.3
Anglian Water River Nene KING'S MEADOW LANE 44 253 99.3
Anglian Water River Til COURT EST. PS 29 237 100
Anglian Water River Nene IRTHLINGBOROUGH LIME STREET CSO 20 221 30.4
Anglian Water Wash Brook RUSHDEN - DUCK STREET CSO 27 128 98.6
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook SSO STANWELL WAY WELLINGBOROUGH 13 128 99.1
Anglian Water Unnamed Of R Nene HIGHAM FERRERS-NORTHAMPTON ROAD CSO 22 119 99.6
Anglian Water Finedon Brook BROOK COTTAGE 35 101 97
Anglian Water River Nene IRCHESTER (8050) SSO 21 52 91.7
Anglian Water Ise Brook Leading To River Nene WELLINGBOROUGH - ISE VALLEY TPS 9 40 100
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook WELLINGBOROUGH - HENSHAW RD CSO 11 37 99.9
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook WELLINGBOROUGH - HATTON PARK CSO #2 14 21 100
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook WELLINGBOROUGH HATTON PARK NO.1 CSO 9 17 97.3
Anglian Water River Nene IRTHLINGBOROUGH - CROUCH ROAD CSO 10 14 45.4
Anglian Water Wash Brook PADDOCKS RD PS 4 9 100
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook BROOK STREET EAST SSO 6 4 100
Anglian Water River Ise IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD 2 1 99.3
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook CHESTER ROAD CSO 3 1 100
Anglian Water Knuston Brook To R Nene IRCHESTER PS 1 0 100
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook CROYLAND RD SSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Nene IRCHESTER SWS 0 0 98.7
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook SHEPHERDS YARD CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Ise IRTHLINGBOROUGH RD TPS 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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