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Mid Leicestershire

Polluted by sewage 445 times in 2025 lasting 1,890 hours

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Live data for Mid Leicestershire in 2026

So far this year (as of 11 Aug 2026, 20:15) there has been 2,045 hours of sewage overflows, from 83 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Mid Leicestershire in 2025

29 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
445 sewage dumps
1,890 hours duration
That's 2.62 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Mid Leicestershire 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 WANLIP SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 83 623 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence BAGWORTH MAIN SPS 16 142 100
Severn Trent Water River Biam WESTOVER ROAD CSO 41 117 98.8
Severn Trent Water Stanton Brook STANTON UNDER BARDON SPS 37 105 100
Severn Trent Water River Soar ROTHLEY SPS 8 101 100
Severn Trent Water River Soar VICARY LANE CSO 34 72 100
Severn Trent Water River Biam AMY STREET PS /STORM SETT TANKS 9 68 100
Severn Trent Water Rothley Brook Via Surf Sewer STAMFORD STREET/ BLACKSMIITH CSO 28 63 97.4
Severn Trent Water River Sence PUMPING STATION 9 61 100
Severn Trent Water Bradgate Brook BRADGATE ROAD SPS 12 58 100
Severn Trent Water Quorn Brook SCHOOL LANE CSO 26 57 97.3
Severn Trent Water Slate Brook MARKFIELD ROAD PUMPING STATION 9 56 100
Severn Trent Water Anstey Brook VARIOUS CSOS AND ANSTEY PS 17 54 99.6
Severn Trent Water Rothley Brook TOWN GREEN STREET CSO 10 52 100
Severn Trent Water Rothley Brook CAPTAINS LANE SCO 22 39 100
Severn Trent Water Rothley Brook WEST STREET PS - STORM OVERFLOW 4 32 100
Severn Trent Water Rothley Brook COURT CLOSE CSO 6 29 100
Severn Trent Water River Biam AMY STREET 14 BRAUNSTONE CSO 6 27 96.2
Severn Trent Water River Soar MEADOW ROAD CSO 19 25 100
Severn Trent Water Rothely Brook BRANTING HILL CSO 12 25 100
Severn Trent Water River Soar KINGSWAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 6 25 99.2
Severn Trent Water Rothley Brook KIRBY MUXLOE GOLF COURSE CSO 5 9 100
Severn Trent Water Rothley Brook Via Surf Sewer GLENFIELD STATION ROAD CSO 1 9 94.4
Severn Trent Water Rothley Brook Via Surf Sewer STAMFORD STREET 2 CSO 10 9 100
Severn Trent Water Rotheley Brook GREENGATE LANE ESTATE - EMEG O/F 2 8 100
Severn Trent Water Rothley Brook RATBY LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 9 6 99.4
Severn Trent Water Rothley Brook RATBY PS & VILLAGE/STM/EMG/SWS 1 5 100
Severn Trent Water Rothley Brook GLENFIELD LEICESTER ROAD CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Soar WORCESTER AVENUE CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Rothley Brook BEECHWOOD AVENUE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Soar BRAND LANE CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Soar COSSINGTON MAIN STREET SPS 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Glenfield/Braunstone/K/Mux Br GLENFIELD/KIRBY MUXLOE PS/STM/SWS 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.

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