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River Great Ouse polluted by sewage 309 times in 2025 - lasting 1,600 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for 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 River Great Ouse BRACKLEY-NEW WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 27 307 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse BUCKINGHAM (MAIDS MORETON) WRC 35 306 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse ELY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE (OLD) 22 218 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse SHERINGTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 16 186 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse WYTON (EX-RAF) WATER RECYCLING CNTR 18 122 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse ODELL WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 10 111 99.7
Anglian Water River Great Ouse NEEDINGWORTH STW 10 70 99.6
Anglian Water River Great Ouse BEDFORD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 7 50 61.9
Anglian Water River Great Ouse PAVENHAM MILL LANE PUMPING STATION 11 39 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse WESTBURY STW 25 33 63
Anglian Water River Great Ouse ST IVES PRIORY ROAD PUMPING STATION 18 31 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse HARTFORD ROAD CSO 27 30 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse WATER LANE CSO, SHERINGTON 15 29 92
Anglian Water River Great Ouse BERRY GREEN PS 3 20 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse SEWERS AT VILLAGE ROAD 4 14 99.2
Anglian Water River Great Ouse OFFORD CLUNNY STATION LANE TPS 1 5 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse ELY LISLE LANE 13 5 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse WHITE HART TPS 3 5 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse WOLVERTON RAIL FREIGHT CSO 9 4 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse BUCKINGHAM - STOWE AVENUE SSO 10 2 78.5
Anglian Water River Great Ouse ROXTON(SCHOOL LANE) PUMPING STATION 4 1 99.9
Anglian Water River Great Ouse ELY WILLOW WALK TPS 1 1 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse ST NEOTS - MARKET SQUARE CSO 14 1 94.8
Anglian Water River Great Ouse WESTON UNDERWOOD STW 2 0 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse TURVEY (COTTAGES) STW 3 0 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse FILGRAVE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 1 0 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse BUCKINGHAM HUNTER STREET CSO 0 0 78.5
Anglian Water River Great Ouse KEMPSTON VILLAGE HALL CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Great Ouse CONINGTON - FEN DRAYTON RD PS 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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