Wellingborough and Rushden was polluted by sewage 332 times in 2023
lasting 3,505 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Wellingborough and Rushden in 2023
20 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
332 sewage dumps
3,505 h duration
That's 4.87 months. 6.4 times a week, on average
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Wellingborough and Rushden 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 28 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 River Nene CHELVESTON - WATER LANE PS 82 1,434 100
Anglian Water Wash Brook RUSHDEN - DUCK STREET CSO 65 1,023 100
Anglian Water River Nene BROADHOLME WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 46 598 99.5
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook MONKS WAY CSO 14 134 100
Anglian Water River Nene IRTHLINGBOROUGH LIME STREET CSO 21 111 99.7
Anglian Water River Til COURT EST. PS 18 78 100
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook WELLINGBOROUGH HATTON PARK NO.1 CSO 15 78 100
Anglian Water Unnamed Of R Nene HIGHAM FERRERS-NORTHAMPTON ROAD CSO 15 15 100
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook WELLINGBOROUGH - HATTON PARK CSO #2 8 9 98.9
Anglian Water River Nene KING'S MEADOW LANE 1 4 100
Anglian Water River Ise 5 SSO AT WELLINGBOROUGH 12 4 50
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook CROYLAND RD SSO 6 2 100
Anglian Water Finedon Brook BROOK COTTAGE 2 2 100
Anglian Water River Nene IRTHLINGBOROUGH - CROUCH ROAD CSO 9 2 97.5
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook CHESTER ROAD CSO 8 2 100
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook SSO STANWELL WAY WELLINGBOROUGH 3 1 100
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook WELLINGBOROUGH - HENSHAW RD CSO 3 1 100
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook BROOK STREET EAST SSO 2 0 99.9
Anglian Water River Nene IRCHESTER (8050) SSO 1 0 100
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook WELLINGBOROUGH-MARKET STREET CSO 1 0 99.8
Anglian Water River Ise IRTHLINGBOROUGH RD TPS 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Nene THINGDON COTTAGE 0 0 0
Anglian Water Swanspool Brook SHEPHERDS YARD CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Nene IRCHESTER SWS 0 0 50
Anglian Water River Ise IRTHLINGBOROUGH ROAD 0 0 100
Anglian Water Ise Brook Leading To River Nene WELLINGBOROUGH - ISE VALLEY TPS 0 0 100
Anglian Water Knuston Brook To R Nene IRCHESTER PS 0 0 100
Anglian Water Wash Brook PADDOCKS RD PS 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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