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Harborough, Oadby and Wigston

Polluted by sewage 1,742 times in 2025 lasting 4,447 hours

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Live data for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston in 2026

So far this year (as of 15 Aug 2026, 07:45) there has been 6,522 hours of sewage overflows, from 50 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston in 2025

23 Sites polluted by Anglian Water Severn Trent Water
1,742 sewage dumps
4,447 hours duration
That's 6.18 months. On average 4.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston 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 %
Severn Trent Water Burton Brook GREAT GLEN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 69 1,184 90.8
Anglian Water River Welland MKT HARBOROUGH WATER RECYCLING CNTR 48 652 99.5
Anglian Water Unknown Langton Brook TUR LANGTON SPS 1,176 405 100
Anglian Water Langton Brook River Welland N EAST LANGTON STW 78 367 100
Severn Trent Water Burton Brook FLECKNEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 43 348 99.9
Anglian Water Foxton Brook River Welland FOXTON(LEICS) STW 37 279 100
Severn Trent Water Wash Brook OADBY STW 30 186 100
Anglian Water River Welland MARKET HARBOROUGH-RIVERSIDE ROAD 17 184 100
Anglian Water Langton Brook KIBWORTH STW 57 179 99.95
Anglian Water River Welland LUBENHAM SPS 19 167 100
Severn Trent Water Burton Brook GAULBY STW 32 149 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence GREAT GLEN SPS - STM/EMG O/F 8 78 100
Severn Trent Water Newton Harcourt Brook NEWTON HARCOURT PUMPING STATION 18 72 99.9
Anglian Water River Welland MARKET HARBOROUGH SOUTH CSO 14 56 98.6
Severn Trent Water River Sence KINGS NORTON SPS & GAULBY STW 4 39 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence PARK ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 7 32 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence WIGSTON GAS LANE CSO 29 27 100
Severn Trent Water River Scence PARK RD/ORANGE RD CSO 16 17 100
Anglian Water Langton Brook RAILWAY BRIDGE COMBINED SEWER OVERF 14 7 86.6
Severn Trent Water River Sence WIGSTON - COUNTESTHORPE ROAD CSO 13 5 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence MIDLAND COTTAGES CSO 9 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence WIGSTON MOAT STREET CSO 1 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence WIGSTON - BLABY ROAD CSO 3 0 100
Anglian Water Langton Brook KIBWORTH HARBOROUGH ROAD CSO 0 0 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Sence LITTLE STRETTON STW 0 0 100
Anglian Water Langton Brook MEADOWBROOK ROAD SSO 0 0 99.7
Anglian Water Langton Brook SPRINGFIELD CRESCENT SSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence WIGSTON CROW MILLS SPS 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.

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