Harborough, Oadby and Wigston was polluted by sewage 1,100 times in 2023
lasting 11,012 hours - that's 1.27 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston in 2023
23 Sites polluted by Anglian Water, Severn Trent Water
1,100 sewage dumps
11,012 h duration
That's 1.27 years! On average 3 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Harborough, Oadby and Wigston in 2023. 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 3 of the total 28 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 3 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water Burton Brook GAULBY STW 177 2,669 99.7
Severn Trent Water Burton Brook GREAT GLEN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 114 1,353 89.9
Anglian Water River Welland MKT HARBOROUGH WATER RECYCLING CNTR 76 1,186 100
Anglian Water Langton Brook KIBWORTH STW 103 1,122 99.9
Anglian Water Foxton Brook River Welland FOXTON(LEICS) STW 79 1,111 100
Anglian Water Langton Brook River Welland N EAST LANGTON STW 133 1,094 100
Severn Trent Water Newton Harcourt Brook NEWTON HARCOURT PUMPING STATION 80 921 100
Severn Trent Water Burton Brook FLECKNEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 64 527 98.2
Anglian Water Unknown Langton Brook TUR LANGTON SPS 14 247 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence GREAT GLEN SPS - STM/EMG O/F 17 160 97.4
Anglian Water River Welland LUBENHAM SPS 9 151 100
Anglian Water Langton Brook SPRINGFIELD CRESCENT SSO 72 117 89.1
Anglian Water River Welland MARKET HARBOROUGH SOUTH CSO 31 84 99.7
Anglian Water River Welland MARKET HARBOROUGH-RIVERSIDE ROAD 10 80 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence KINGS NORTON SPS & GAULBY STW 10 55 97.5
Severn Trent Water River Sence WIGSTON CROW MILLS SPS 13 48 70.3
Severn Trent Water River Sence WIGSTON GAS LANE CSO 47 43 100
Anglian Water Langton Brook RAILWAY BRIDGE COMBINED SEWER OVERF 33 20 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence WIGSTON - COUNTESTHORPE ROAD CSO 3 9 67.6
Severn Trent Water River Sence MIDLAND COTTAGES CSO 11 5 59.7
Severn Trent Water River Sence WIGSTON FIELDS CSO 2 1 100
Anglian Water Langton Brook KIBWORTH HARBOROUGH ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence LITTLE STRETTON STW 1 0 99.2
Severn Trent Water Wash Brook OADBY STW 0 0 18.4
Anglian Water Langton Brook MEADOWBROOK ROAD SSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water Langton Brook MARSH AVENUE SSO 0 0 0
Anglian Water Langton Brook WESTSIDE SSO 0 0 0
Anglian Water River Welland SSO COVENTRY RD 0 0 0

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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