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Wellingborough and Rushden - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,365 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 2,424 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Wellingborough and Rushden so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 587 hours , 1,187 offline
Feb - 711 hours , 1,180 offline
Mar - 66 hours , 57 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Anglian Water BROADHOLME STW River Nene 25 368 h 46m -
Anglian Water Irthlingborough - Lime Street CSO River Nene 24 339 h 2m -
Anglian Water CHELVESTON-WATER LANE SP River Nene 23 219 h 27m -
Anglian Water Rushden - Duck Street Combined Sewer Overflow Wash Brook 13 96 h 37m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-HATTON PARK SSO Swanspool Brook 11 94 h 13m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-MONKS WAY SSO Swanspool Brook 9 81 h 45m 1,252 h
Anglian Water RUSHDEN-COURT ESTATE SP River Til 12 74 h 40m -
Anglian Water Wellingborough -Market Street Combined Sewer Overflow Swanspool Brook 12 43 h 5m -
Anglian Water RUSHDEN-PADDOCKS RD TPS Wash Brook 7 20 h 30m -
Anglian Water IRCHESTER TPS Knuston Brook To R Nene 1 9 h 9m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-RAIL STATION SSO River Ise 1 3 h 43m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-SHEPHERDS YARD CSO Swanspool Brook 1 3 h 43m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-ISE VALLEY TPS Ise Brook Leading To River Nene 1 3 h 43m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-CROYLAND RD SSO Swanspool Brook 2 2 h 59m -
Anglian Water FINEDON-BROOKSIDE SSO Finedon Brook 2 2 h 30m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH BROOK ST EAST Swanspool Brook 2 0 h 46m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH - HATTON PARK CSO#2 Swanspool Brook 1 0 h 30m -
Anglian Water Wellingborough - Henshaw Road Combined Sewer Overflow Swanspool Brook 1 0 h 15m -
Anglian Water HIGHAM FERRERS-NORTHAMPTON RD Unnamed Of R Nene 1 0 h 9m 1,172 h
Anglian Water IRCHESTER (8050) SSO River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-STANWELL WAY Swanspool Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water CHELVESTON-WATER LANE SP River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH BROOK ST EAST Swanspool Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water IRTHLINGBOROUGH-CROUCH RD SSO River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Irchester Station Road SSO River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Irthlingborough - Lime Street CSO River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-CROYLAND RD SSO Swanspool Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water IRTHLINGBOROUGH-CROUCH RD SSO River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Rushden - Duck Street Combined Sewer Overflow Wash Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water HIGHAM FERRERS-KINGS MEADOW SP River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water RUSHDEN-COURT ESTATE SP River Til 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-CHESTER ROAD Swanspool Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Wellingborough -Market Street Combined Sewer Overflow Swanspool Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH -IRTHLINGBOROUGH RD CSO#2 River Ise 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-MONKS WAY SSO Swanspool Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water RUSHDEN-PADDOCKS RD TPS Wash Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water HIGHAM FERRERS-NORTHAMPTON RD Unnamed Of R Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water BROADHOLME STW River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-RAIL STATION SSO River Ise 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-HATTON PARK SSO Swanspool Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-ISE VALLEY TPS Ise Brook Leading To River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water HIGHAM FERRERS-KINGS MEADOW SP River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-SHEPHERDS YARD CSO Swanspool Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH TPS River Ise 0 0 h -
Anglian Water FINEDON-BROOKSIDE SSO Finedon Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water IRCHESTER TPS Knuston Brook To R Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH TPS River Ise 0 0 h -
Anglian Water IRCHESTER (8050) SSO River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Rushden Midland Rd CSO River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH - HATTON PARK CSO#2 Swanspool Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Irchester Station Road SSO River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-CHESTER ROAD Swanspool Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Wellingborough - Henshaw Road Combined Sewer Overflow Swanspool Brook 0 0 h -

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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

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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