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River Nene polluted by sewage 630 times in 2025 - lasting 2,407 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Nene in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water River Nene CHELVESTON - WATER LANE PS 44 624 100
Anglian Water River Nene WINDSOR DRIVE CSO 23 235 95.7
Anglian Water River Nene LONG BUCKBY SP 23 192 100
Anglian Water River Nene ASHBY ST.LEDGERS SPS 19 145 100
Anglian Water River Nene DARTFORD ROAD CSO 16 128 97.1
Anglian Water River Nene ISLIP WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 12 119 97.3
Anglian Water River Nene WHILTON SPS 6 96 95.1
Anglian Water River Nene CSO AND EO AT WOODFORD 18 84 100
Anglian Water River Nene ELTON WRC 5 61 98.5
Anglian Water River Nene UNITY CLOSE SSO 28 56 97.6
Anglian Water River Nene NORTHAMPTON LOWER HESTER STREET CSO 30 55 96.6
Anglian Water River Nene WEEDON ROAD CSO 37 53 100
Anglian Water River Nene WEEDON PUMPING STATION 5 48 100
Anglian Water River Nene KING'S MEADOW LANE 15 38 99.8
Anglian Water River Nene KISLINGBURY BAPTIST CHAPEL SSO 14 38 99.3
Anglian Water River Nene EARLS BARTON TPS 20 35 100
Anglian Water River Nene LONG BUCKBY CSO 19 35 99.9
Anglian Water River Nene WEST HADDON SP 16 31 100
Anglian Water River Nene TEETON 5 28 100
Anglian Water River Nene ELWYN ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 7 28 99.9
Anglian Water River Nene GREAT BRINGTON PS 12 27 100
Anglian Water River Nene DENFORD PS 3 25 100
Anglian Water River Nene HARPOLE - NORTHAMPTON ROAD CSO 21 24 99.9
Anglian Water River Nene NORTHAMPTON BECKETTS PARK CSO 31 22 99.9
Anglian Water River Nene GREAT DODDINGTON STW 15 19 100
Anglian Water River Nene KISLINGBURY PUMPING STATION 6 16 100
Anglian Water River Nene WISBECHROAD/POLICE HOUSE 12 14 96.3
Anglian Water River Nene SUTTON BRIDGE STW 8 12 100
Anglian Water River Nene CREEK ROAD/ST.JOHNS ROAD CSO 2 10 85.6
Anglian Water River Nene WISBECH - LYNN ROAD TPS 6 10 100
Anglian Water River Nene SSO UPPER HEYFORD 9 9 100
Anglian Water River Nene CLIFTONVILLE SSO 11 8 100
Anglian Water River Nene FLORE 6 7 87.8
Anglian Water River Nene NORTHAMPTON VICTORIA GARDENS CSO 12 5 99.8
Anglian Water River Nene ALDWINCLE TPS 2 5 100
Anglian Water River Nene HEATHFIELD WAY SSO 6 5 99.4
Anglian Water River Nene MARCH-ELLIOT ROAD CSO 1 4 96
Anglian Water River Nene WINDSOR DRIVE CSO 1 4 95.7
Anglian Water River Nene NORTHAMPTON SPENCER BRIDGE ROAD CSO 6 3 100
Anglian Water River Nene EAST ROAD CSO 11 3 6.7
Anglian Water River Nene PETERBOROUGH OUNDLE ROAD CSO 3 2 100
Anglian Water River Nene NORTHAMPTON SWAN STREET CSO 14 2 99.9
Anglian Water River Nene NORTHAMPTON MILL LANE CSO 7 2 69.4
Anglian Water River Nene IRTHLINGBOROUGH PUMPING STATION 2 2 100
Anglian Water River Nene STH MILL LN-KINGSTHORPE 5 2 92.6
Anglian Water River Nene NORTHAMPTON DUSTON SYCAMORE CSO 7 1 100
Anglian Water River Nene ST OSYTHS CSO 5 1 6.7
Anglian Water River Nene ALWALTON MILL LANE PUMPING STATION 3 1 100
Anglian Water River Nene NORTHAMPTON BRIDGE STREET CSO 5 1 75.4
Anglian Water River Nene RINGSTEAD SPS 2 1 100
Anglian Water River Nene IRCHESTER (8050) SSO 3 1 98.6
Anglian Water River Nene PETERBOROUGH RIVER LANE CSO 6 1 99.9
Anglian Water River Nene LT HARROWDEN SSO (6503) 3 1 89.1
Anglian Water River Nene NORTHAMPTON BEDFORD ROAD CSO 7 0 99.9
Anglian Water River Nene IRTHLINGBOROUGH - CROUCH ROAD CSO 2 0 95.5
Anglian Water River Nene NORTHAMPTON MANHOLE 15 DUSTON CSO 1 0 99.6
Anglian Water River Nene KETTERING RD (2504) 2 0 98
Anglian Water River Nene HORSEY TOLL PUMPING STATION 1 0 100
Anglian Water River Nene IRTHLINGBOROUGH LIME STREET CSO 2 0 37.2
Anglian Water River Nene OUNDLE BARNWELL ROAD TPS 2 0 99.9
Anglian Water River Nene ASHLINE GR STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 1 0 87.8
Anglian Water River Nene GRAFTON STREET SSO 1 0 100
Anglian Water River Nene OUNDLE NEW ROAD TERMINAL PS 2 0 100
Anglian Water River Nene OUNDLE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 1 0 100
Anglian Water River Nene ISLIP PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Nene STATION RD SSO E BARTON 0 0 54.5
Anglian Water River Nene THORNBY PS 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Nene DESBOROUGH-RECTORY FIELD CSO 0 0 51.6
Anglian Water River Nene PETERBOROUGH-ORTON MERE PS 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Nene CSO AND EO AT NORTHAMPTON 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Nene NORTHAMPTON-RICHMOND TERRACE 1SP 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Nene BEDFORD ROAD SPS 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Nene PETEBOROUGH NORTH MINSTER CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Nene WOLLASTON (8250) SSO 0 0 61.8
Anglian Water River Nene IRCHESTER SWS 0 0 99.3

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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