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Grantham and Bourne - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 8,073 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 5,702 hours , potential overflows 341 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Grantham and Bourne for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 1,282 hours
Feb - 90 hours
Mar - 10 hours , 22 offline
Apr - 1 hours , 47 offline
May - 59 hours
Jun - 7 hours
Jul - 89 hours , 271 offline
Aug - 3 hours , 744 offline
Sept - 48 hours , 720 offline
Oct - 15 hours , 744 offline
Nov - 4,654 hours , 1,508 offline
Dec - 1,810 hours , 317 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Anglian Water LONG BENNINGTON WRC River Witham 46 711 h 39m -
Anglian Water CLAYPOLE STW River Witham 34 612 h 15m -
Anglian Water BOURNE STW Bourne Eau + Black Sluice Dyke 36 605 h 39m -
Anglian Water OSBOURNBY STW S.Beck N.Beck South Forty Foot 37 601 h 4m -
Anglian Water LONG BENNINGTON-CHURCH ST TPS Ease Drain 30 599 h 42m -
Anglian Water CLAYPOLE-WELFEN LA TPS Claypole Drain South 34 592 h -
Anglian Water MARSTON STW (LINCS) River Witham 30 591 h 49m -
Anglian Water Bourne STW_A3 Bourne Eau + Black Sluice Dyke 32 567 h 18m -
Anglian Water FULBECK STW Beck 36 562 h 41m -
Anglian Water DYKE-VILLAGE ST SP Unknown South Of Dyke Dr 26 535 h 34m -
Anglian Water LONG BENNINGTON-WATERLANE SSO Dike River Witham 19 355 h 44m -
Anglian Water LONG BENNINGTON WRC River Witham 27 328 h 50m -
Anglian Water BOURNE STW Bourne Eau + Black Sluice Dyke 15 157 h 2m -
Anglian Water OSBOURNBY STW S.Beck N.Beck South Forty Foot 12 132 h 8m -
Anglian Water CLAYPOLE STW River Witham 15 126 h 43m -
Anglian Water FULBECK STW Beck 19 119 h 1m -
Anglian Water HECKINGTON WRC Heckington Eau 6 86 h 45m -
Anglian Water GT GONERBY-BELTON LANE SP Running Furrows Drain River Wi 22 85 h 21m -
Anglian Water MARSTON STW (LINCS) River Witham 10 84 h 55m -
Anglian Water HARLAXTON STW Grantham Canal 7 82 h 30m -
Severn Trent Water WOOLSTHORPE STW (SSTO) River Devon 7 60 h 37m -
Severn Trent Water WOOLSTHORPE STW (SSTO) River Devon 8 53 h 23m 69 h
Anglian Water GT HALE SP Beck 9 44 h 31m 3,308 h
Anglian Water GT GONERBY-BELTON LANE SP Running Furrows Drain River Wi 7 43 h 44m -
Anglian Water HELPRINGHAM STW Helpringham Eau South Forty Fo 3 43 h 4m -
Anglian Water HECKINGTON WRC Heckington Eau 7 36 h 14m -
Anglian Water DYKE-VILLAGE ST SP Unknown South Of Dyke Dr 4 33 h 45m -
Anglian Water HARLAXTON STW Grantham Canal 6 31 h 9m -
Anglian Water MANTHORPE-MILL SP Running Furrows Drain 6 28 h 58m -
Anglian Water HELPRINGHAM STW Helpringham Eau South Forty Fo 4 27 h -
Anglian Water CLAYPOLE-WELFEN LA TPS Claypole Drain South 7 26 h 11m 341 h
Anglian Water LONG BENNINGTON-CHURCH ST TPS Ease Drain 6 19 h 30m -
Anglian Water DRY DODDINGTON TPS Unnamed Dyke To River Witham 2 19 h 29m -
Anglian Water STORM WATER ALMA PARK Unknown 3 18 h 45m -
Anglian Water MANTHORPE-MILL SP Running Furrows Drain 13 16 h 1m -
Anglian Water Bourne STW_A3 Bourne Eau + Black Sluice Dyke 2 14 h 12m -
Anglian Water STORM WATER ALMA PARK Unknown 7 8 h 42m -
Anglian Water LONG BENNINGTON-WATERLANE SSO Dike River Witham 1 3 h 30m -
Anglian Water LONG BENNINGTON-CHURCH ST TPS Ease Drain 1 2 h 30m -
Anglian Water LONG BENNINGTON-CHURCH ST TPS Ease Drain 1 1 h 45m -
Anglian Water WILSFORD STW To Swallow Hole 1 0 h 59m -
Anglian Water DRY DODDINGTON TPS Unnamed Dyke To River Witham 1 0 h 45m -
Anglian Water Grantham - Bridge End Grove CSO River Witham 0 0 h 1,162 h
Anglian Water ALLINGTON STW Foston Beck 0 0 h -
Anglian Water FOSTON SP Unnamed Drain 0 0 h -
Anglian Water FOSTON SP Unnamed Drain 0 0 h -
Anglian Water GT HALE SP Beck 0 0 h 1,161 h
Anglian Water WILSFORD STW To Swallow Hole 0 0 h -

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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