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Synthetic working data

Explore the starter data

We used AI-assisted research to investigate the published sources, then created 18 non-sensitive synthetic records shaped by what those sources expose. It is starter data for exploration—not real service data or evidence.

Read the note on this dataset

Eighteen invented weekly effluent readings standing in for the monitoring feed a wastewater operator already holds, with six lettered works, a banded daily flow, and ammonia and phosphorus in milligrams per litre, so anomaly triage can be discussed without operational or network detail.

Every record in the file

Inspect, compare, understand

Use 18 synthetic weekly readings across six works to explore unusual-reading detection without operational network data. Switch views without losing the description, source file, or limitations on this page.

SYN-WW-01Works A2025-W1810000-20000 m3/day1.40.8
SYN-WW-02Works A2025-W1910000-20000 m3/day1.90.9
SYN-WW-03Works A2025-W20over 20000 m3/day3.61.5
SYN-WW-04Works B2025-W185000-10000 m3/day0.90.6
SYN-WW-05Works B2025-W195000-10000 m3/day1.10.7
SYN-WW-06Works B2025-W205000-10000 m3/day10.6
SYN-WW-07Works C2025-W182500-5000 m3/day2.21.1
SYN-WW-08Works C2025-W192500-5000 m3/day5.82.4
SYN-WW-09Works C2025-W202500-5000 m3/day2.41.2
SYN-WW-10Works D2025-W181000-2500 m3/day0.70.5
SYN-WW-11Works D2025-W191000-2500 m3/day0.60.4
SYN-WW-12Works D2025-W201000-2500 m3/day0.80.5
SYN-WW-13Works E2025-W18250-1000 m3/day3.11.8
SYN-WW-14Works E2025-W19250-1000 m3/day3.41.9
SYN-WW-15Works E2025-W20250-1000 m3/day31.7
SYN-WW-16Works F2025-W18under 250 m3/day4.22.1
SYN-WW-17Works F2025-W19under 250 m3/day42
SYN-WW-18Works F2025-W20under 250 m3/day9.63.3
Synthetic working data

AI-assisted research helped identify and interpret the published sources. We then created a small, non-sensitive synthetic dataset shaped by the information those sources expose. It is for exploration—not evidence, training, or operational decisions.

Method note

How it was prepared

AI authored fictional flow, ammonia, and phosphorus readings, including two weeks that differ from their site's pattern.

Conditions for use

What this dataset cannot tell you

  • The readings are invented and the works are letters, so nothing here describes any real site, network, or discharge.
  • Weekly figures per works hide the rainfall, hydraulics, and sensor faults that decide what an unusual reading actually means.
  • Two measures cannot identify what is in the water, and a real feed also carries the gaps, drift, and maintenance events this tidy file does not.
  • It is invented. No record describes a real person, place, case, or measurement, and no result computed from it is evidence that anything works in a live service.