Gainsborough

Polluted by sewage 943 times in 2024 lasting 8,486 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Gainsborough in 2025

So far this year (as of May 7, 2025, 9:30 PM) there has been 1,575 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Gainsborough in 2024

30 Sites polluted by Anglian Water, Severn Trent Water

943 sewage dumps

8,486 hours duration

That's 11.79 months. On average 2.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Gainsborough

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Gainsborough, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Gainsborough in 2024. 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 1 of the total 38 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Anglian Water	Nettleham Beck	NETTLEHAM STW	114	2,089	97.6
Anglian Water	North Delph	FISKERTON STW	59	871	100
Anglian Water	Dunholme Beck	DUNHOLME WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	55	749	99.5
Anglian Water	Nettleham Beck	METTLEHAM STW, INLET SEWER	21	489	36
Anglian Water	Kettleby Beck	GRASBY STW	46	483	97.8
Severn Trent Water	River Eau	SCOTTER STW	33	451	99.8
Anglian Water	Of Black Dyke	HEMSWELL RAF CAMP STW	42	441	100
Anglian Water	River Rase	TEALBY STW	48	406	100
Anglian Water	Scothern Fen Drain	SCOTHERN TPS	23	304	100
Severn Trent Water	River Trent	BRIDGE STREET PUMPING STATION SSO	67	295	93.6
Anglian Water	River Till River Witham	WILLINGHAM(LINCS) STW	54	291	100
Severn Trent Water	River Trent	NORTH WARREN ROAD PUMPING STATION	65	249	100
Anglian Water	Sturton Beck River Till	STURTON BY STOW STW	32	235	95.8
Anglian Water	South Kelsey Drain	SPS SOUTH KELSEY	49	217	100
Anglian Water	Fossdyke Canal	SAXILBY STW	42	165	100
Anglian Water	Waddingham Beck	WADDINGHAM GREEN PS	17	144	100
Anglian Water	Caddle Beck	KEELBY STW	57	123	100
Anglian Water	Caistor Canal River Ancholme	CAISTOR WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	9	99	94.3
Anglian Water	Fossdyke Navigation Canal	SAXILBY - HIGH STREET/WEST BANK CSO	38	90	100
Anglian Water	River Rase	CAISTOR ROAD SWS	21	77	100
Severn Trent Water	Laughton Highland Drain	HIGH STREET (BLACK HORSE) SPS	10	51	99.4
Severn Trent Water	River Trent	GAINSBOROUGH STW	8	45	98.8
Anglian Water	Unknown North Delph	HIGH STREET MANHOLE	12	42	93.9
Anglian Water	Unnamed Dyke Leading Padmoor D	KEXBY PUMPING STATION	3	29	98.4
Anglian Water	Unknown	THORNTON ROAD PS	8	18	100
Anglian Water	Unknown	NORMANBY BY SPITAL STW	2	12	100
Anglian Water	North Kelsey Beck Rive	NORTH KELSEY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	5	10	95.1
Anglian Water	Unnamed Dyke To Seggimoor Beck	GLENTHAM - CAENBY ROAD SP	1	0	100
Anglian Water	Reepham Beck	REEPHAM KENNEL LANE/CLOUGH HILL CSO	1	0	100
Severn Trent Water	River Eau	NORTHORPE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	1	0	100
Anglian Water	River Witham	BARDNEY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	0	0	100
Anglian Water	North Delph	FISKERTON PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Un Black Dyke	SNITTERBY PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Reepham Beck Barling Eau Rive	REEPHAM(LINCS) STW	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Dyke North Kelsey Beck	NORTH KELSEY-BRIGG ROAD TPS	0	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Aisby Beck	AISBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	0	0	95
Anglian Water	River Rase	GALLAMORE ROAD PS	0	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Laughton Drain	PILHAM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	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. This 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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Gainsborough Polluted by sewage 943 times in 2024 lasting 8,486 hours Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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