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Louth and Horncastle - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 4,067 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 10,769 hours , potential overflows 1,990 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Louth and Horncastle so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

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 - 1,440 hours , 1,232 potential
Feb - 2,028 hours , 758 potential
Mar - 570 hours , 2,244 offline
Apr - 6 hours , 2,563 offline
May - 20 hours , 1,676 offline
Jun - 0 hours
Daily data is experimental and data is not guaranteed to be accurate. Please inform us of any issue, we will fix.
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Anglian Water CONINGSBY STW River Bain 60 1,087h 56m 20 h
Anglian Water NORTH COTES STW Old Fleet Drain Louth Canal N 59 701h 5m -
Anglian Water LOUTH STW Louth Canal 41 551h 3m -
Anglian Water HORNCASTLE-SPORTS GROUND SSO Old River Bain 48 431h 32m 64 h
Anglian Water WELTON-LE-WOLD STW River Lud 23 391h 56m 0 h
Anglian Water HORNCASTLE STW Old River Bain 9 164h 827 h
Anglian Water CSO and EO at West Barkwith-Main Road SP Torrington Beck 9 98h 30m -
Anglian Water NORTH THORESBY STW Bond Croft Drain 17 93h 44m -
Anglian Water HOLTON LE CLAY STW Holton Beck Louth Canal 14 92h 58m -
Anglian Water Louth-Church Lights Combined Sewer Overflow River Lud 7 81h 4m -
Anglian Water THIMBLEBY-MILL LANE SP River Box 7 62h 41m -
Anglian Water SPILSBY STW River Lymn 9 46h 41m -
Anglian Water WOODHALL SPA STW TPS Swine Syke Drain 9 44h 48m -
Anglian Water WOODHALL SPA STW Swine Syke 5 40h 35m -
Anglian Water NORTH THORESBY STW Bond Croft Drain 5 32h 14m -
Anglian Water LOUTH SPAW LANE SSO River Lud/Louth Canal 14 30h 1m 3 h
Anglian Water LOUTH-BROADBANK SSO River Lud 7 24h 46m -
Anglian Water MABLETHORPE STW Wold Grift Drain 2 21h 15m -
Anglian Water LOUTH-RIVERHEAD TANK Louth Canal 3 15h 7m 0 h
Anglian Water HORNCASTLE-THORNTON LA TPS Old River Bain 4 14h 14m -
Anglian Water LOUTH-GRAYS ROAD SSO River Lud 5 7h 45m 765 h
Anglian Water MANBY STW Long Eau 7 7h 2m 0 h
Anglian Water LOUTH-BRACKENBOROUGH RD SSO River Lud 3 6h 45m -
Anglian Water GRIMOLDBY-EASTFIELD LA SP Unnamed Dyke To Sykes Drain 1 5h 15m -
Anglian Water LOUTH-PASTURES DRIVE CSO Stewton Beck 3 4h 5m 359 h
Anglian Water HOLTON-TETNEY LA TPS Humberston Beck 1 3h 15m -
Anglian Water HORNCASTLE-BANOVALLUM OV Old River Bain 3 3h -
Anglian Water THIMBLEBY-MAIN ROAD SP Unnamed Catchw 1 2h 59m -
Anglian Water Mablethorpe George Street CSO Town Drain 1 0h 15m 822 h
Anglian Water LOUTH-GRIMSBY RD CISTERN SSO River Lud 1 0h 15m -
Anglian Water LOUTH-RAMSGATE SSO River Lud 1 0h 15m -
Anglian Water LOUTH STW Louth Canal 0 0h -
Anglian Water CONINGSBY STW River Bain 0 0h -
Anglian Water LOUTH-JAMES ST SSO River Lud 0 0h -
Anglian Water HORNCASTLE STW Old River Bain 0 0h -
Anglian Water E BARKWITH-WILLINGHAM RD SP Torrington Beck 0 0h -
Anglian Water HORNCASTLE-BANOVALLUM OV Old River Bain 0 0h -
Anglian Water TETNEY-NEWTON MARSH STW Tetney Haven 0 0h 3,299 h
Anglian Water MABLETHORPE STW Wold Grift Drain 0 0h -
Anglian Water LOUTH-KENWICK ROAD SSO Stewton Beck 0 0h -
Anglian Water E BARKWITH-WILLINGHAM RD SP Torrington Beck 0 0h -
Anglian Water E BARKWITH-TORRINGTON RD SP Torrington Beck 0 0h -
Anglian Water ABY-SCHOOL LA TPS Un-Named Dyke To Great Eau 0 0h -
Anglian Water LOUTH-NEWBRIDGE HILL SSO River Lud 0 0h -
Anglian Water WOODHALL SPA STW TPS Swine Syke Drain 0 0h -
Anglian Water Ramsgate Road combined sewer overflow River Lud/Louth Canal 0 0h -
Anglian Water CSO and EO at West Barkwith-Main Road SP Torrington Beck 0 0h -
Anglian Water LOUTH-BRACKENBOROUGH RD SSO River Lud 0 0h -
Anglian Water LOUTH-GRAYS ROAD SSO River Lud 0 0h -
Anglian Water LOUTH-LOVE LN/WESTGATE SSO River Lud 0 0h -
Anglian Water LOUTH-BROADBANK SSO River Lud 0 0h -
Anglian Water NORTH THORESBY STW Bond Croft Drain 0 0h -
Anglian Water ALFORD STW Holme Fen Drain 0 0h -
Anglian Water SPILSBY STW River Lymn 0 0h -
Anglian Water ALFORD STW Holme Fen Drain 0 0h -
Anglian Water TETNEY-NEWTON MARSH STW Tetney Haven 0 0h -
Anglian Water LOUTH-BRIDGE ST SSO River Lud 0 0h -
Anglian Water LOUTH SPAW LANE SSO River Lud/Louth Canal 0 0h -
Anglian Water HOLTON-TETNEY LA TPS Humberston Beck 0 0h -
Anglian Water Louth-Church Lights Combined Sewer Overflow River Lud 0 0h -
Anglian Water E BARKWITH-TORRINGTON RD SP Torrington Beck 0 0h -
Anglian Water NORTH COTES STW Old Fleet Drain Louth Canal N 0 0h -
Anglian Water HORNCASTLE-SPORTS GROUND SSO Old River Bain 0 0h -
Anglian Water LOUTH-GRIMSBY RD CISTERN SSO River Lud 0 0h -
Anglian Water ABY-SCHOOL LA TPS Un-Named Dyke To Great Eau 0 0h -
Anglian Water Mablethorpe George Street CSO Town Drain 0 0h -
Anglian Water LOUTH-PASTURES DRIVE CSO Stewton Beck 0 0h -
Anglian Water THIMBLEBY-MILL LANE SP River Box 0 0h -
Anglian Water LOUTH-KENWICK ROAD SSO Stewton Beck 0 0h 3,299 h
Anglian Water GRIMOLDBY-EASTFIELD LA SP Unnamed Dyke To Sykes Drain 0 0h -
Anglian Water Ramsgate Road combined sewer overflow River Lud/Louth Canal 0 0h -
Anglian Water HORNCASTLE-THORNTON LA TPS Old River Bain 0 0h -
Anglian Water HOLTON LE CLAY STW Holton Beck Louth Canal 0 0h -
Anglian Water NORTH THORESBY STW Bond Croft Drain 0 0h -
Anglian Water LOUTH-RAMSGATE SSO River Lud 0 0h -
Anglian Water WOODHALL SPA STW Swine Syke 0 0h -
Anglian Water WELTON-LE-WOLD STW River Lud 0 0h -
Anglian Water LOUTH-NEWBRIDGE HILL SSO River Lud 0 0h -
Anglian Water MANBY STW Long Eau 0 0h -
Anglian Water LOUTH-RIVERHEAD TANK Louth Canal 0 0h -
Anglian Water THIMBLEBY-MAIN ROAD SP Unnamed Catchw 0 0h -
Anglian Water STRUBBY STW Un Wold Grift D 0 0h -
Anglian Water STRUBBY STW Un Wold Grift D 0 0h 3,299 h

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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