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Fen Drain River Great Ouse polluted by sewage 26 times in 2025 - lasting 155 hours

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Totals for Fen Drain River Great Ouse in 2025
1 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
26 sewage dumps
155 h duration
That's 6.46 days. 2.2 times a month, over the year
Constituencies along Fen Drain River Great Ouse
Places along Fen Drain River Great Ouse

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water Fen Drain River Great Ouse WITCHFORD STW 26 155 100
Anglian Water Fen Drain River Great Ouse CHAPEL TPS 0 0 99.9

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.

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