Peterborough

Polluted by sewage 437 times in 2024 lasting 5,150 hours

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Live data for Peterborough in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:00 AM) there has been 146 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Peterborough in 2024

10 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
437 sewage dumps
5,150 hours duration
That's 7.15 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Peterborough, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Peterborough 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 constituency all the declared CSOs 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 312 4,550 96.65
Anglian Water New Wryde Drain THORNEY STW 39 214 100
Anglian Water Cat'S Water PETERBOROUGH ROAD PS 16 176 97.9
Anglian Water Werrington Brook PETERBOROUGH WERRTON FENBRIDGE TPS 5 91 100
Anglian Water Counter Drain FLAG FEN INLET PUMPING STATION 31 80 100
Anglian Water River Nene PETERBOROUGH RIVER LANE CSO 21 13 100
Anglian Water Werrington Brook PETERBOROUGH - ULLSWATER AVE CSO 5 12 100
Anglian Water Werrington Brook PETERBOROUGH-WERRTON LINCOLN ROAD 4 7 90.3
Anglian Water River Nene PETEBOROUGH NORTH MINSTER CSO 3 3 100
Anglian Water Unnamed Watercourse BRETTON NORTH PUMPING STATION 1 0 100

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. This 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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