Grantham and Bourne

Polluted by sewage 1,043 times in 2025 lasting 2,861 hours

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Live data for Grantham and Bourne in 2026

So far this year (as of 25 Oct 2026, 15:30) there has been 2,906 hours of sewage overflows, from 48 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Sewage without rain in Grantham and Bourne

On 12 occasions since December 2024, no rain fell anywhere in Grantham and Bourne for days — and its CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s discharged anyway.

Totals for Grantham and Bourne in 2025

20 Sites polluted by Anglian Water Severn Trent Water
1,043 sewage dumps
2,861 hours duration
Sewage pollution map of Grantham and Bourne
Sewage pollution map of Grantham and Bourne: 1,043 spills in 2025, lasting 2,861 hours, by Anglian Water and Severn Trent Water
That's 3.97 months. On average 2.9 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Grantham and Bourne 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 River Witham LONG BENNINGTON STW 50 485 99.4
Anglian Water Dike River Witham LONG BENNINGTON-WATER LANE SSO 21 359 99.3
Anglian Water River Witham CLAYPOLE STW 30 247 100
Anglian Water Bourne Eau + Black Sluice Dyke BOURNE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 43 245 99.35
Anglian Water S.Beck N.Beck South Forty Foot OSBOURNBY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 696 219 100
Anglian Water Ease Drain CHURCH ST TPS 22 194 100
Anglian Water Beck FULBECK STW 37 182 99.8
Anglian Water River Witham MARSTON (GRANTHAM) WRC 16 162 100
Severn Trent Water River Devon WOOLSTHORPE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 15 114 95.3
Anglian Water Beck GREAT HALE PUMPING STN 15 109 99.9
Anglian Water Claypole Drain South WELFEN LANE TERMINAL PUMPING STATIO 16 104 100
Anglian Water Running Furrows Drain River Wi GREAT GONERBY PS 24 103 99.9
Anglian Water Grantham Canal HARLAXTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 10 85 100
Anglian Water Running Furrows Drain MANTHORPE MILL PUMPING STATION 23 71 100
Anglian Water Helpringham Eau South Forty Fo HELPRINGHAM STW 7 69 100
Anglian Water Unknown South Of Dyke Dr DYKE PS 6 56 100
Anglian Water Unknown ALMA PARK STW - SSO 7 25 100
Anglian Water Unnamed Dyke To River Witham DRY DODDINGTON TPS 2 19 100
Anglian Water To Swallow Hole WILSFORD STW STORM 2 5 100
Anglian Water Unnamed Drain FOSTON PS FOSTON 1 0 100
Anglian Water River Witham GRANTHAM - BRIDGE END GROVE CSO 0 0 63.7

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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