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South Cambridgeshire

Polluted by sewage 152 times in 2025 lasting 888 hours

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Live data for South Cambridgeshire in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 939 hours of sewage overflows, from 34 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for South Cambridgeshire in 2025

13 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
152 sewage dumps
888 hours duration
That's 1.23 months. 2.9 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Cambridgeshire 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 %
Anglian Water River Rhee HASLINGFIELD WRC 31 388 100
Anglian Water Tit Brook WIMPOLE ROAD PS 18 189 100
Anglian Water River Rhee MEADOWCROFT WAY 8 101 90
Anglian Water Bin Brook HARDWICK EAST PUMPING STATION 6 71 100
Anglian Water Mel Brook Leading To R Rhee MELBOURN WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 37 58 99.5
Anglian Water River Granta LINTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 9 20 99.1
Anglian Water Little Wilbraham River BALSHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 5 17 100
Anglian Water River Rhee BARRINGTON SLID LANE 2 CSO 14 15 100
Anglian Water Millbridge Brook HATLEY ST. GEORGE 2 13 100
Anglian Water River Rhee GUILDEN MORDEN STW 19 5 100
Anglian Water Unnamed Watercourse GT CHISHILL RD PUMPING STATION 1 5 100
Anglian Water River Granta LINTON RECREATION GROUND TERMINAL S 1 0 100
Anglian Water River Cam SAWSTON STW 1 0 100
Anglian Water Whaddon Brook To River Rhee ROYSTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 0 0 100
Anglian Water Quy Water Bottisham Lode TEVERSHAM STW 0 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. 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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