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Louth and Horncastle was polluted by sewage 1,447 times in 2023
lasting 11,853 hours - that's 1.37 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Louth and Horncastle in 2023
38 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
1,447 sewage dumps
11,853 h duration
That's 1.37 years! On average 4 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Louth and Horncastle 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 1 of the total 43 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water Long Eau MANBY STW 138 1,819 100
Anglian Water Old River Bain HORNCASTLE SPORTS GROUND CSO 74 1,379 80.2
Anglian Water River Bain CONINGSBY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 67 1,148 100
Anglian Water Old River Bain HORNCASTLE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 53 1,038 100
Anglian Water River Lud LOUTH-BROADBANK CSO 53 853 70.6
Anglian Water River Lud/Louth Canal SPAW LANE CSO 117 739 90.1
Anglian Water Holme Fen Drain ALFORD STW 37 659 100
Anglian Water Louth Canal LOUTH STW 85 644 99.9
Anglian Water Swine Syke WOODHALL SPA WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 68 609 100
Anglian Water Wold Grift Drain MABLETHORPE WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 72 444 99.5
Anglian Water Old Fleet Drain Louth Canal N NORTH COATES WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 35 436 100
Anglian Water Bond Croft Drain NORTH THORESBY WRC 51 360 100
Anglian Water River Lymn SPILSBY STW 34 311 100
Anglian Water River Lud LOUTH GRIMSBY ROAD CISTERN CSO 35 213 58.3
Anglian Water Swine Syke Drain WOODHALL SPA WRC TPS 49 177 100
Anglian Water Holton Beck Louth Canal HOLTON LE CLAY STW 46 154 100
Anglian Water Un Wold Grift D STRUBBY STW 24 140 100
Anglian Water River Lud WELTON LE WOLD WRC 15 101 100
Anglian Water River Lud LOVE LANE CSO 95 97 99
Anglian Water River Lud LOUTH-BRIDGE STREET CSO 53 66 89.6
Anglian Water Louth Canal RIVERHEAD TANK SO 9 65 100
Anglian Water Old River Bain HORNCASTLE-THORNTON LANE TPS 12 61 100
Anglian Water River Lud LOUTH-GRAYS ROAD CSO 39 55 85.4
Anglian Water Torrington Beck WEST BARKWITH - MAIN ROAD SP 5 50 100
Anglian Water Tetney Haven NEWTON MARSH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 37 43 100
Anglian Water River Lud LOUTH-CHURCHLIGHTS CSO 45 33 99.8
Anglian Water River Lud LOUTH BRACKENBOROUGH ROAD CSO 23 30 97.3
Anglian Water River Lud LOUTH-NEWBRIDGE HILL CSO 10 24 94.3
Anglian Water Old River Bain BANOVALLUM CSO 7 21 100
Anglian Water River Lud/Louth Canal RAMSGATE ROAD CSO 28 18 99.7
Anglian Water Town Drain MALBLETHORPE GEORGE STREET CSO 7 16 86.8
Anglian Water Bond Croft Drain NORTH THORESBY PS 3 12 100
Anglian Water Stewton Beck LOUTH-KENWICK CSO 3 8 86.5
Anglian Water River Lud LOUTH-RAMSGATE CSO 9 4 99.7
Anglian Water Humberston Beck HOLTON TETNEY LANE TPS 1 3 99.9
Anglian Water River Lud LOUTH-JAMES STREET CSO 4 3 28.5
Anglian Water Unnamed Catchw WEST THIMBLEBY PS 1 3 100
Anglian Water Stewton Beck PASTURES DRIVE CSO 3 2 100
Anglian Water Unnamed Dyke To Sykes Drain GRIMOLDBY - EASTFIELD LANE SP 0 0 100
Anglian Water Un-Named Dyke To East Fen Catc WEST KEAL S.PS 0 0 0
Anglian Water Torrington Beck EAST BARKWITH-TORRINGTON ROAD SPS 0 0 100
Anglian Water Un-Named Dyke To Great Eau SCHOOL LANE SPS ABY 0 0 100
Anglian Water Torrington Beck EAST BARKWITH WILLINGHAM ROAD 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.

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