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Polluted by sewage 1,119 times in 2024 lasting 10,137 hours - That's 1.17 years!
So far this year (as of May 29, 2025, 1:00 AM) there has been 2,345 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.27 years!
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Scunthorpe, 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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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Scunthorpe 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 all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglian Water | Unnamed Drain To River Humber | WHITTON STW | 170 | 3,290 | 98.6 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Humber | ALKBOROUGH STW | 111 | 1,387 | 99.95 |
| Anglian Water | Hibaldstow Catchwater River An | HIBALDSTOW WATER RECYCLING CENTRE | 54 | 1,035 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | River Humber T | WINTERINGHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE | 141 | 836 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Unknown | THEALBY STW | 90 | 765 | 90.6 |
| Anglian Water | Halton Drain | WEST HALTON PS | 38 | 498 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Haven Drain | WINTERINGHAM-STATION FARM CSO | 43 | 338 | 95.8 |
| Severn Trent Water | Burton Stather Drain | BURTON STATHER SEWAGE TRTMNT WRKS | 77 | 319 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Winterton Holmes Dr | WINTERTON - PARK ST 1 CSO | 22 | 276 | 98.9 |
| Severn Trent Water | Bottesford Beck | EAST COMMON LANE CSO | 76 | 270 | 99.5 |
| Severn Trent Water | Messingham Catchwater Drain | BUTTERWICK ROAD SPS | 30 | 182 | 99.9 |
| Anglian Water | Froghall Drain - Kettleby Beck | HOWSHAM - CADNEY ROAD TPS | 23 | 152 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Bottesford Beck | SCUNTHORPE (YADDLETHORPE) STW | 21 | 148 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Bottesford Beck | SCUNTHORPE - 122 EAST COMMON LN CSO | 50 | 128 | 98.8 |
| Severn Trent Water | Unnamed River Eau | KIRTON IN LINDSEY STW | 18 | 105 | 92.9 |
| Severn Trent Water | Gunness South Drain | DONCASTER ROAD PUMPING STATION | 14 | 72 | 97.3 |
| Severn Trent Water | Bottesford Beck | SCUNTHORPE - SOUTH GRANGE CSO | 22 | 54 | 98 |
| Anglian Water | Winterton Homes Dr | WINTERTON - EARLSGATE PS | 4 | 44 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Crosby Catchwater Drain | DONCASTER RD CSO | 15 | 40 | 86.4 |
| Anglian Water | West Drain | NORTH STREET SSO | 10 | 40 | 99.7 |
| Severn Trent Water | Bottesford Beck | GRANGE LANE NORTH CSO | 21 | 38 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Bottesford Beck | BRIGG ROAD/STATION ROAD CSO | 14 | 33 | 99.6 |
| Anglian Water | Unknown | SCAWBY SEWER CSO | 4 | 32 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Bottesford Beck | SCUNTHORPE - ROCHDALE ROAD CSO | 18 | 20 | 94.6 |
| Anglian Water | Unnamed Drain | NORMANBY PARK PUMPING STATION | 3 | 8 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Neap House Drain | CLIFF CLOSES ROAD CSO | 10 | 6 | 98.4 |
| Severn Trent Water | Bottesford Beck | QUEENSWAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 7 | 4 | 99.1 |
| Anglian Water | New R Ancholme | HIBALDSTOW STW (SPS) | 3 | 2 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Bottesford Beck Culvert | SCUNTHORPE HIGH ST/ TRAFFORD ST CSO | 4 | 1 | 97 |
| Anglian Water | River Ancholme | HIBALDSTOW - STATION ROAD SP | 1 | 1 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Un Kettleby Bec | BRIGG ROAD SPS | 2 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Trent | GUNNESS STW | 3 | 0 | 97.9 |
| Severn Trent Water | Bottesford Beck | SCUNTHORPE - HIGH ST-FRANCES ST CSO | 0 | 0 | 92.1 |
| Severn Trent Water | Earl Beauchamps Warping Drain | BURRINGHAM ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Bottesford Beck | SCUNTHORPE - SPENCER AVENUE CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Of New River Ancholme | HIBALDSTOW - INGS LANE TPS | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Bottesford Beck | SCUNTHORPE - BERKELEY ST CSO | 0 | 0 | 96 |
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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