Scunthorpe was polluted by sewage 1,119 times in 2024
lasting 10,137 hours - that's 1.17 years!

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Live data for Scunthorpe in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 5:30 PM) there has been 2,331 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.27 years!
Totals for Scunthorpe in 2024
32 Sites polluted by Anglian Water, Severn Trent Water
1,119 sewage dumps
10,137 h duration
That's 1.17 years! On average 3.1 times a day
Change Over Time
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Daily Data
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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Pollution Summary 2024

Here 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 0 of the total 37 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 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

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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