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Loughborough - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,565 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 4,124 hours , potential overflows 2 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Loughborough for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 712 hours , 2 potential
Feb - 8 hours , 1,363 offline
Mar - 19 hours , 215 offline
Apr - 14 hours , 9 offline
May - 18 hours , 76 offline
Jun - 10 hours , 0 offline
Jul - 25 hours , 39 offline
Aug - 4 hours , 49 offline
Sept - 39 hours
Oct - 21 hours
Nov - 455 hours , 29 offline
Dec - 235 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Severn Trent Water BARROW & QUORN (STW) River Soar 26 300h 11m 44 h
Severn Trent Water LOUGHBOROUGH STW (SSTO) Wood Brook 23 178h 37m -
Severn Trent Water BARROW & QUORN (STW) River Soar 18 173h 53m -
Severn Trent Water LOUGHBOROUGH - JUBILEE DRIVE (CSO) Wood Brook 30 135h 39m -
Severn Trent Water SHEPSHED STW (SSTO) Black Brook 8 80h 13m 4 h
Severn Trent Water BURTON ON THE WOLDS (IPS) Prestwold Hall Brook 7 66h 17m -
Severn Trent Water SHEPSHED - LEICESTER ROAD O/S NO 156 (CSO) Black Brook 19 65h 24m 9 h
Severn Trent Water BARROW - PROCTORS PARK ROAD (SSO) River Soar - 11 65h 21m -
Severn Trent Water BARROW - WELLAND ROAD (CSO) River Soar - 7 63h 20m -
Severn Trent Water LOUGHBOROUGH - PARK ROAD (CSO) Grammar School Brook 12 62h 0 h
Severn Trent Water LOUGHBOROUGH - JUBILEE DRIVE (CSO) Wood Brook 14 48h 41m -
Severn Trent Water QUORN - SOAR ROAD (CSO) River Soar - 9 35h 39m -
Severn Trent Water LOUGHBOROUGH STW (SSTO) Wood Brook 6 34h 35m -
Severn Trent Water MOUNTSORREL - LOUGHBOROUGH ROAD (CSO) River Soar 10 33h 26m 1,011 h
Severn Trent Water HATHERN - THE GREEN FIELD 4604 (CSO) River Soar 3 22h 48m 1,540 h
Severn Trent Water HATHERN - CROSS STREET (CSO) River Soar 6 22h 43m 76 h
Severn Trent Water LOUGHBOROUGH - MORLEY STREET (CSO) Hermitage Brook 7 22h 11m -
Severn Trent Water LOUGHBOROUGH - PARK ROAD (CSO) Grammar School Brook 2 16h 56m -
Severn Trent Water BURTON - SEYMOUR ROAD (SSO) River Soar 7 14h 35m 752 h
Severn Trent Water BURTON ON THE WOLDS STW (SSTO) Walton Brook 5 14h 34m 60 h
Severn Trent Water BURTON ON THE WOLDS (IPS) Prestwold Hall Brook 4 13h 40m -
Severn Trent Water SHEPSHED STW (SSTO) Black Brook 3 12h 43m -
Severn Trent Water SHEPSHED STW 6DWF (CSO) Black Brook 4 11h 4m 4 h
Severn Trent Water SHEPSHED - JCN CAMBRIDGE ST LEICESTER RD (CSO) Black Brook 5 9h 13m -
Severn Trent Water HATHERN - WIDE STREET (CSO) River Soar 5 7h 40m 0 h
Severn Trent Water BARROW - BREACHFIELD ROAD (CSO) Fishpool Brook 2 7h 39m -
Severn Trent Water BARROW - WELLAND ROAD (CSO) River Soar - 2 7h 18m -
Severn Trent Water QUORN - SOAR ROAD (CSO) River Soar - 2 7h 14m -
Severn Trent Water HATHERN - THE GREEN FIELD 4604 (CSO) River Soar 1 6h 44m -
Severn Trent Water BURTON - SEYMOUR ROAD (SSO) River Soar 2 6h 6m -
Severn Trent Water MOUNTSORREL - LOUGHBOROUGH ROAD (CSO) River Soar 2 4h 28m -
Severn Trent Water LEICS-MOUNTSORREL-LEICESTER RD (CSO) River Soar 3 3h 19m -
Severn Trent Water LOUGHBOROUGH - MORLEY STREET (CSO) Hermitage Brook 2 2h 39m -
Severn Trent Water BARROW - PROCTORS PARK ROAD (SSO) River Soar - 2 1h 59m -
Severn Trent Water BARROW - PROCTORS PARK ROAD 2 (CSO) River Soar 5 1h 46m -
Severn Trent Water SHEPSHED - LEICESTER ROAD O/S NO 156 (CSO) Black Brook 1 1h 40m -
Severn Trent Water BARROW - COTES ROAD (CSO) Grand Union Canal 1 0h 53m -
Severn Trent Water BARROW - COTES ROAD (CSO) Grand Union Canal 3 0h 47m 622 h
Severn Trent Water LEICS-MOUNTSORREL-LEICESTER RD (CSO) River Soar 1 0h 41m -
Severn Trent Water BARROW - BREACHFIELD ROAD (CSO) Fishpool Brook 1 0h 38m -
Severn Trent Water BURTON ON THE WOLDS STW (SSTO) Walton Brook 1 0h 22m -
Severn Trent Water SHEPSHED - JCN CAMBRIDGE ST LEICESTER RD (CSO) Black Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BARROW - PROCTORS PARK ROAD 2 (CSO) River Soar 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HATHERN - CROSS STREET (CSO) River Soar 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water SHEPSHED STW 6DWF (CSO) Black Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HATHERN - WIDE STREET (CSO) River Soar 0 0h -

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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