Peterborough

Polluted by sewage 92 times in 2025 lasting 622 hours

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Totals for Peterborough in 2025

10 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

92 sewage dumps

622 hours duration

Sewage pollution map of Peterborough — Sewage pollution map of Peterborough: 622 hours in 2025

That's 3.7 weeks. 1.8 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Peterborough 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 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	Counterdrain River Nene T	PETERBOROUGH - FLAG FEN WRC	61	554	99.85
Anglian Water	Car Dyke	SSO AT ST PEGAS ROAD	5	20	100
Anglian Water	Counter Drain	FLAG FEN INLET PUMPING STATION	3	20	100
Anglian Water	R Nene	MILTON FERRY PS	4	11	100
Anglian Water	Cat'S Water	PETERBOROUGH ROAD PS	5	9	100
Anglian Water	River Nene	PETERBOROUGH OUNDLE ROAD CSO	3	2	100
Anglian Water	River Nene	ALWALTON MILL LANE PUMPING STATION	3	1	100
Anglian Water	River Nene	PETERBOROUGH RIVER LANE CSO	6	1	99.9
Anglian Water	River Nene	HORSEY TOLL PUMPING STATION	1	0	100
Anglian Water	Werrington Brook	PETERBOROUGH-WERRTON LINCOLN ROAD	1	0	85.9
Anglian Water	Marholm Brook	MARHOLM PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Nene	PETERBOROUGH-ORTON MERE PS	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Fletton Spring	SHERWOOD AVENUE SSO	0	0	52.2
Anglian Water	Unnamed Watercourse	BRETTON NORTH PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Anglian Water	River Nene	PETEBOROUGH NORTH MINSTER CSO	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Werrington Brook	PETERBOROUGH - ULLSWATER AVE CSO	0	0	99
Anglian Water	Werrington Brook	PETERBOROUGH WERRTON FENBRIDGE TPS	0	0	100

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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.

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