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Hinckley and Bosworth

Polluted by sewage 801 times in 2025 lasting 5,078 hours

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

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Live data for Hinckley and Bosworth in 2026

So far this year (as of 13 Aug 2026, 07:46) there has been 6,551 hours of sewage overflows, from 110 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Hinckley and Bosworth in 2025

42 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
801 sewage dumps
5,078 hours duration
That's 7.05 months. On average 2.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Hinckley and Bosworth 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 1 of the total 46 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Mease SNARESTONE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 121 1,968 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence SHEEPY PUMPING STATION 24 388 97.4
Severn Trent Water Sketchley Brook HINCKLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 57 352 99.95
Severn Trent Water Carlton Brook MARKET BOSWORTH STW 35 314 99.1
Severn Trent Water River Sence SHENTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 41 218 100
Severn Trent Water Hooborough Brook DONISTHORPE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 21 204 100
Severn Trent Water Osbaston Brook BARLESTONE WWTW 35 172 100
Severn Trent Water Chilcote Brook CHILCOTE RBC SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 72 132 97.3
Severn Trent Water River Tweed STAPLETON LANE SEWAGE PUMPING ST. 17 106 99.9
Severn Trent Water Normanton Brook KIRKBY MALLORY STW 20 94 99.5
Severn Trent Water River Mease SWEPSTONE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 5 89 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence STOKE GOLDING SEWAGE PUMPING STN 20 86 100
Severn Trent Water Normanton Brook NEWBOLD VERDON STW 19 86 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence CONGERSTONE PUMPING STATION 8 82 100
Severn Trent Water Sence Brook RATCLIFFE CULEY - MAIN ROAD CSO 9 69 98.7
Severn Trent Water Sibson Brook HIGHAM-ON-THE-HILL PUMPING STATION 15 55 100
Severn Trent Water Nailstone Brook NAILSTONE PUMPING STATION 7 50 100
Severn Trent Water River Anker FENNY DRAYTON SEWAGE PS 24 49 100
Severn Trent Water Earl Shilton Brook EARL SHILTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 16 48 99.95
Severn Trent Water Ashby De La Zouch Canal ROSEWAY STREET CSO 19 47 100
Severn Trent Water River Anker ORTON-ON-THE-HILL STW 8 41 98.6
Severn Trent Water Thurlaston Brook ASTON FIRS PUMPING STATION 6 41 100
Severn Trent Water Harrow Brook BRODICK ROAD CSO 14 38 100
Severn Trent Water Soar Brook BURBAGE - SAPCOTE ROAD CSO 27 38 97.9
Severn Trent Water Hooborough Brook ACRESFORD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 7 36 99.3
Severn Trent Water Sketchley Brook FOREST ROAD CSO 32 33 100
Severn Trent Water Sketchley Brook SOUTHFIELD ROAD STORM OVERFLOW 9 30 91.4
Severn Trent Water Sketchley Brook BROOKSIDE HINCKLEY CSO 27 28 99.9
Severn Trent Water Sence Brook CSO AT STAPLETON SPS 8 25 44.4
Severn Trent Water River Sence BROOKSIDE CSO 15 24 100
Severn Trent Water Donisthorpe Brook MEASHAM ROAD PUMPING STATION 8 23 100
Severn Trent Water Desford Brook PECKLETON LANE PUMPING STATION 3 17 100
Severn Trent Water River Mease SNARESTONE ROAD PUMPING STATION 3 14 99
Severn Trent Water Battling Brook COVENTRY ROAD - NUTTS LANE CSO 9 14 100
Severn Trent Water Harrow Brook HINCKLEY - HARROWBROOK ROAD CSO 2 13 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Sence PARK PUMPING STATION 4 12 98.6
Severn Trent Water Tweed River SUNNYSIDE CSO 1 4 11 100
Severn Trent Water Soar Brook BULLFURLONG LANE CSO 13 6 100
Severn Trent Water Soar Brook BANKY MEADOW CSO 3 1 99.5
Severn Trent Water Soar Brook BURBAGE - LYCHGATE/WOODSTOCK CL CSO 11 1 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Sence ODSTONE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water Thurlaston Brook PECKLETON 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Soar Brook BURBAGE - LYCHGATE LANE SPS 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Donisthorpe Brook DONISTHORPE LANE 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Sketchley Brook HAWLEY ROAD / SOUTHFIELD ROAD CSO 0 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water Battling Brook WESTRAY DRIVE CSO 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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