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Boston and Skegness

Polluted by sewage 255 times in 2025 lasting 1,301 hours

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Live data for Boston and Skegness in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,119 hours of sewage overflows, from 47 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Boston and Skegness in 2025

21 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
255 sewage dumps
1,301 hours duration
That's 1.81 months. 4.9 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Boston and Skegness 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 Wash Estuary BOSTON NEW EAST SIDE TERMINAL PS 33 216 100
Anglian Water Croft Bank Drain RICHMOND DRIVE TPS 20 178 100
Anglian Water Mallows Drain Hobhole Drain SIBSEY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 18 178 99.9
Anglian Water Frampton Town Drain FRAMPTON STW 12 174 100
Anglian Water North Sea INGOLDMELLS WRC 72 159 97.2
Anglian Water Unknown MUMBY PS 12 84 100
Anglian Water East Fen Catchwater Drain STICKNEY STW 10 83 99.4
Anglian Water Hobhole Drain FISHTOFT STW 9 43 99.9
Anglian Water South Forty Foot Drain BOTSON LONDON ROAD PUMPING STATION 7 42 93.1
Anglian Water River Steeping WAINFLEET STW 4 39 100
Anglian Water Catchwater Drain STOREYS PS BURGHLEMARSH 4 31 100
Anglian Water Haven BOSTON LONDON ROAD PUMPING STATION 22 18 100
Anglian Water Maud Foster Drain BOSTON QUEENS ROAD CSO 6 15 100
Anglian Water Leak Gride Drain OLD LEAKE (SKIPMARSH) STW 3 13 100
Anglian Water River Lymn SKENDLEBY STW 6 13 99.8
Anglian Water North Forty Foot Drain BOSTON SLEAFORD ROAD PS 9 6 100
Anglian Water Haven BOSTON NORFOLK PLACE CSO 3 0 100
Anglian Water Maud Foster Drain NORFOLK STREET CSO 1 0 61
Anglian Water Hobhole Drain ROCHFORD TOWER CSO 1 0 94.2
Anglian Water Maud Foster Drain BOSTON CHURCH ROAD PS 2 0 99.4
Anglian Water North Forty Foot Drain FENSIDE ROAD PUMPING STATION 1 0 100
Anglian Water To Ingoldmells Main Drain SOUTHGATE CA. INGOLDMELLS 0 0 100
Anglian Water Unnamed Drain Steeping Haven WAINFLEET BOSTON ROAD PUMPING ST. 0 0 100
Anglian Water Unnamed River Steeping WAINFLEET 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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