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Leicester South was polluted by sewage 70 times in 2023
lasting 56 hours

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Totals for Leicester South in 2023
10 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
70 sewage dumps
56 h duration
That's 2.33 days. 1.3 times a week, on average
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Leicester South 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 0 of the total 12 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water Saffron Brook WELFORD ROAD CSO 28 15 99.2
Severn Trent Water Grand Union Canal DYSART WAY CSO 13 12 67.4
Severn Trent Water Saffron Brook KENWOOD ROAD SUB-CATCHMENT SSO 4 12 99.5
Severn Trent Water Evington Brook STOUGHTON VILLAGE PS - SWS 2 6 82.8
Severn Trent Water Willow Brook NEDHAM STREET CSO 11 2 93.8
Severn Trent Water Saffron Brook HOWARD ROAD CSO 3 1 85.6
Severn Trent Water River Soar THE NEWARKE CSO 6 1 100
Severn Trent Water Evington Brook GWENDOLEN ROAD CSO 1 1 91.8
Severn Trent Water Evington Brook MAYFIELD ROAD CSO 1 0 92.1
Severn Trent Water Grand Union Canal CONDUIT STREET CSO 1 0 82.7
Severn Trent Water Wash/Saffron Brook CARISBROOKE ROAD - STORM OVERFLOW 0 0 84.5
Severn Trent Water River Soar RAW DYKES ROAD CSO 0 0 98.9

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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