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Witney

Polluted by sewage 532 times in 2025 lasting 7,910 hours

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Live data for Witney in 2026

So far this year (as of 5 Sept 2026, 06:30) there has been 9,994 hours of sewage overflows, from 28 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s - that's 1.16 years!

Totals for Witney in 2025

12 Sites polluted by Thames Water
532 sewage dumps
7,910 hours duration
That's 10.99 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Witney in 2025. 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Thames Water Windrush Standlake 98 2,213 100
Thames Water Littlestock Brook Milton-under-Wychwood 67 1,091 100
Thames Water Tuckmill Brook Shrivenham 56 945 100
Thames Water Shill Brook BAMPTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 82 926 99.4
Thames Water Harcourt Brook STANTON HARCOURT STW, STANTON HARCO 42 709 100
Thames Water Curbridge Ditch WITNEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 37 576 100
Thames Water Shill Brook CARTERTON STW 25 403 100
Thames Water Bagpuize Brook KINGSTON BAGPUIZE WWTW 32 389 100
Thames Water Halfacre Brook CLANFIELD STW, CLANFIELD, OXON 14 185 97.3
Thames Water Marcham Brook APPLETON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 17 159 100
Thames Water Faringdon Brook/River Thames FARINGDON WWTW 50 159 93.7
Thames Water River Windrush BURFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 12 152 100

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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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