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Wellingborough and Rushden - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 7,877 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 1,162 hours , potential overflows 1,582 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Wellingborough and Rushden for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 510 hours
Feb - 355 hours
Mar - 71 hours
Apr - 67 hours
May - 62 hours
Jun - 81 hours
Jul - 60 hours
Aug - 218 hours
Sept - 246 hours , 9 potential
Oct - 20 hours , 744 potential
Nov - 4,827 hours , 720 potential
Dec - 1,355 hours , 109 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Anglian Water CHELVESTON-WATER LANE SP River Nene 52 967 h 4m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-MONKS WAY SSO Swanspool Brook 64 815 h 49m 1,582 h
Anglian Water Wellingborough -Market Street Combined Sewer Overflow Swanspool Brook 63 654 h 8m -
Anglian Water BROADHOLME STW River Nene 29 598 h 54m -
Anglian Water Rushden - Duck Street Combined Sewer Overflow Wash Brook 41 546 h 4m -
Anglian Water RUSHDEN-PADDOCKS RD TPS Wash Brook 34 534 h 8m -
Anglian Water FINEDON-BROOKSIDE SSO Finedon Brook 40 522 h 45m -
Anglian Water Wellingborough - Henshaw Road Combined Sewer Overflow Swanspool Brook 32 521 h 27m -
Anglian Water RUSHDEN-COURT ESTATE SP River Til 24 515 h 10m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-RAIL STATION SSO River Ise 27 511 h 33m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH BROOK ST EAST Swanspool Brook 27 506 h 45m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-CROYLAND RD SSO Swanspool Brook 22 506 h 14m -
Anglian Water CHELVESTON-WATER LANE SP River Nene 13 161 h 59m -
Anglian Water HIGHAM FERRERS-NORTHAMPTON RD Unnamed Of R Nene 20 112 h 2m -
Anglian Water Rushden - Duck Street Combined Sewer Overflow Wash Brook 11 46 h 24m -
Anglian Water BROADHOLME STW River Nene 3 45 h 45m -
Anglian Water HIGHAM FERRERS-NORTHAMPTON RD Unnamed Of R Nene 4 42 h 24m -
Anglian Water Irthlingborough - Lime Street CSO River Nene 9 38 h 15m -
Anglian Water RUSHDEN-PADDOCKS RD TPS Wash Brook 6 34 h 4m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-HATTON PARK SSO Swanspool Brook 5 29 h 29m -
Anglian Water Irthlingborough - Lime Street CSO River Nene 5 26 h 36m -
Anglian Water FINEDON-BROOKSIDE SSO Finedon Brook 11 22 h 45m -
Anglian Water RUSHDEN-COURT ESTATE SP River Til 5 21 h 44m -
Anglian Water Wellingborough -Market Street Combined Sewer Overflow Swanspool Brook 6 19 h 45m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH - HATTON PARK CSO#2 Swanspool Brook 9 17 h 43m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-ISE VALLEY TPS Ise Brook Leading To River Nene 2 13 h 30m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-HATTON PARK SSO Swanspool Brook 6 9 h 30m -
Anglian Water HIGHAM FERRERS-KINGS MEADOW SP River Nene 5 8 h 14m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-STANWELL WAY Swanspool Brook 3 5 h 36m -
Anglian Water IRCHESTER TPS Knuston Brook To R Nene 1 5 h 34m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-CROYLAND RD SSO Swanspool Brook 1 5 h 14m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH BROOK ST EAST Swanspool Brook 2 2 h 43m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-ISE VALLEY TPS Ise Brook Leading To River Nene 3 1 h 30m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-RAIL STATION SSO River Ise 2 1 h 30m -
Anglian Water IRCHESTER TPS Knuston Brook To R Nene 1 1 h 25m -
Anglian Water Wellingborough - Henshaw Road Combined Sewer Overflow Swanspool Brook 1 1 h 15m -
Anglian Water IRCHESTER (8050) SSO River Nene 1 0 h 30m -
Anglian Water IRCHESTER (8050) SSO River Nene 2 0 h 30m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-CHESTER ROAD Swanspool Brook 2 0 h 29m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH - HATTON PARK CSO#2 Swanspool Brook 1 0 h 15m -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-CHESTER ROAD Swanspool Brook 1 0 h 15m -
Anglian Water IRTHLINGBOROUGH-CROUCH RD SSO River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH TPS River Ise 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Irchester Station Road SSO 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 HIGHAM FERRERS-KINGS MEADOW SP River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water IRTHLINGBOROUGH-CROUCH RD SSO River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Rushden Midland Rd CSO River Nene 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-MONKS WAY SSO Swanspool Brook 0 0 h 1,162 h
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH-SHEPHERDS YARD CSO Swanspool Brook 0 0 h -
Anglian Water WELLINGBOROUGH -IRTHLINGBOROUGH RD CSO#2 River Ise 0 0 h -
Anglian Water Irchester Station Road SSO River Nene 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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