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Loughborough

Polluted by sewage 242 times in 2025 lasting 1,389 hours

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Live data for Loughborough in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,354 hours of sewage overflows, from 46 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Loughborough in 2025

15 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
242 sewage dumps
1,389 hours duration
That's 1.93 months. 4.7 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Loughborough 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 River Soar BARROW & QUORN STW 35 445 99.5
Severn Trent Water Wood Brook LOUGHBOROUGH STW 33 213 100
Severn Trent Water Wood Brook LOUGHBOROUGH TOWN WEST CSO 46 185 100
Severn Trent Water River Soar THE GREEN CSO 11 112 100
Severn Trent Water Black Brook SHEPSHED WASTEWATER TREATMENT WKS 17 109 99.6
Severn Trent Water Grammar School Brook PARK ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 15 78 100
Severn Trent Water Prestwold Hall Brook BURTON ON THE WOLDS STW - EMER O/F 12 75 100
Severn Trent Water River Soar QUORN/SOAR ROAD CSO 12 43 100
Severn Trent Water River Soar LOUGHBOROUGH ROAD CSO 10 30 99.7
Severn Trent Water Burton Brook BURTON-SEYMOUR ROAD PUMPING STATION 14 27 100
Severn Trent Water Hermitage Brook MORLEY STREET CSO 10 24 100
Severn Trent Water River Soar HATHERN DISTRICT CSO 6 22 100
Severn Trent Water Fishpool Brook REAR OF 82 MELTON ROAD CSO 5 8 100
Severn Trent Water River Soar WIDE STREET CSO 11 8 100
Severn Trent Water Grand Union Canal COTES ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 5 2 100
Severn Trent Water Walton Brook BURTON ON THE WOLDS WWTW 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.

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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