Louth and Horncastle was polluted by sewage 1,143 times in 2024
lasting 11,172 hours - that's 1.29 years!

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Live data for Louth and Horncastle in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:15 PM) there has been 1,442 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.17 years!

Totals for Louth and Horncastle in 2024

37 Sites polluted by Anglian Water

1,143 sewage dumps
11,172 h duration

That's 1.29 years! On average 3.1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Louth and Horncastle

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Louth and Horncastle, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Louth and Horncastle in 2024. 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 40 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 %
Anglian Water	Long Eau	MANBY STW	108	1,458	93.9
Anglian Water	River Bain	CONINGSBY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	87	1,423	99.9
Anglian Water	Old River Bain	HORNCASTLE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	69	1,331	100
Anglian Water	River Lud/Louth Canal	SPAW LANE CSO	85	885	99.9
Anglian Water	Holton Beck Louth Canal	HOLTON LE CLAY STW	50	752	92
Anglian Water	River Lud	LOUTH-BROADBANK CSO	64	602	100
Anglian Water	Swine Syke	WOODHALL SPA WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	50	512	95.8
Anglian Water	Wold Grift Drain	MABLETHORPE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	33	494	100
Anglian Water	Louth Canal	LOUTH STW	53	493	100
Anglian Water	River Lymn	SPILSBY STW	48	469	86.5
Anglian Water	Old River Bain	HORNCASTLE SPORTS GROUND CSO	40	434	99.3
Anglian Water	Torrington Beck	WEST BARKWITH - MAIN ROAD SP	48	431	99.1
Anglian Water	Bond Croft Drain	NORTH THORESBY WRC	39	330	97.6
Anglian Water	River Lud	LOUTH-CHURCHLIGHTS CSO	32	253	100
Anglian Water	Old Fleet Drain Louth Canal N	NORTH COATES WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	28	230	100
Anglian Water	Louth Canal	RIVERHEAD TANK SO	19	190	98.4
Anglian Water	Swine Syke Drain	WOODHALL SPA WRC TPS	14	153	100
Anglian Water	Bond Croft Drain	NORTH THORESBY PS	19	145	99.9
Anglian Water	River Lud	LOUTH-GRAYS ROAD CSO	56	127	99.9
Anglian Water	Unnamed Catchw	WEST THIMBLEBY PS	8	101	100
Anglian Water	Old River Bain	HORNCASTLE-THORNTON LANE TPS	18	97	100
Anglian Water	Tetney Haven	NEWTON MARSH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	34	66	99.9
Anglian Water	River Lud	LOUTH-BRIDGE STREET CSO	39	51	100
Anglian Water	River Lud	LOUTH BRACKENBOROUGH ROAD CSO	28	37	100
Anglian Water	Stewton Beck	PASTURES DRIVE CSO	8	22	100
Anglian Water	Town Drain	MALBLETHORPE GEORGE STREET CSO	5	18	100
Anglian Water	Humberston Beck	HOLTON TETNEY LANE TPS	13	13	100
Anglian Water	River Lud	WELTON LE WOLD WRC	7	13	99.3
Anglian Water	Old River Bain	BANOVALLUM CSO	5	6	100
Anglian Water	River Lud	LOVE LANE CSO	6	4	100
Anglian Water	River Lud	LOUTH-NEWBRIDGE HILL CSO	8	4	100
Anglian Water	River Lud	LOUTH GRIMSBY ROAD CISTERN CSO	6	4	100
Anglian Water	River Lud	LOUTH-JAMES STREET CSO	6	3	100
Anglian Water	River Lud	LOUTH-RAMSGATE CSO	4	2	99.9
Anglian Water	Torrington Beck	EAST BARKWITH-TORRINGTON ROAD SPS	1	2	100
Anglian Water	River Lud/Louth Canal	RAMSGATE ROAD CSO	4	1	100
Anglian Water	Torrington Beck	EAST BARKWITH WILLINGHAM ROAD SP	1	0	100
Anglian Water	Stewton Beck	LOUTH-KENWICK CSO	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Un-Named Dyke To Great Eau	SCHOOL LANE SPS ABY	0	0	100
Anglian Water	Unnamed Dyke To Sykes Drain	GRIMOLDBY - EASTFIELD LANE SP	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. This 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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