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Polluted by sewage 641 times in 2024 lasting 5,823 hours
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
So far this year (as of May 29, 2025, 1:30 AM) there has been 1,080 hours of sewage overflows
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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 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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Donate NowHere 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 |
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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