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Polluted by sewage 399 times in 2024 lasting 5,355 hours
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Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Milton Keynes 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 place 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 % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglian Water | Calverton Brook | WHADDON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE | 171 | 3,244 | 94.6 |
| Anglian Water | Dogsmouth Brook | COSGROVE CSO | 118 | 1,517 | 99 |
| Anglian Water | River Ouse | STONY STRATFORD | 72 | 497 | 96.1 |
| Anglian Water | Loughton Brook | SEWERS IN BRADWELL ROAD | 21 | 57 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | River Great Ouse | WOLVERTON RAIL FREIGHT CSO | 17 | 38 | 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. 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.
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