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Scunthorpe

Polluted by sewage 911 times in 2025 lasting 5,355 hours

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Live data for Scunthorpe in 2026

So far this year (as of 11 Aug 2026, 21:46) there has been 1,867 hours of sewage overflows, from 86 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Scunthorpe in 2025

32 Sites polluted by Anglian Water Severn Trent Water
911 sewage dumps
5,355 hours duration
That's 7.44 months. On average 2.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Scunthorpe 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 Humber ALKBOROUGH STW 114 1,225 99.95
Anglian Water Unknown THEALBY STW 80 769 99.4
Anglian Water Hibaldstow Catchwater River An HIBALDSTOW WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 26 540 100
Anglian Water River Humber T WINTERINGHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 77 352 99.8
Anglian Water Halton Drain WEST HALTON PS 32 331 99.8
Severn Trent Water Bottesford Beck SCUNTHORPE - SOUTH GRANGE CSO 26 301 99.9
Severn Trent Water Bottesford Beck EAST COMMON LANE CSO 61 231 99.8
Severn Trent Water Bottesford Beck SCUNTHORPE (YADDLETHORPE) STW 32 213 100
Severn Trent Water Burton Stather Drain BURTON STATHER SEWAGE TRTMNT WRKS 56 193 99.4
Anglian Water New R Ancholme HIBALDSTOW STW (SPS) 40 191 100
Severn Trent Water Messingham Catchwater Drain BUTTERWICK ROAD SPS 39 174 100
Severn Trent Water Bottesford Beck SCUNTHORPE - 122 EAST COMMON LN CSO 56 155 99.8
Severn Trent Water Unnamed River Eau KIRTON IN LINDSEY STW 12 93 100
Severn Trent Water Gunness South Drain DONCASTER ROAD PUMPING STATION 15 91 100
Anglian Water Froghall Drain - Kettleby Beck HOWSHAM - CADNEY ROAD TPS 9 84 100
Anglian Water Haven Drain WINTERINGHAM-STATION FARM CSO 11 73 95.9
Anglian Water Winterton Holmes Dr WINTERTON - PARK ST 1 CSO 15 53 100
Anglian Water West Drain NORTH STREET SSO 11 46 100
Anglian Water Winterton Homes Dr WINTERTON - EARLSGATE PS 8 38 100
Severn Trent Water Bottesford Beck GRANGE LANE NORTH CSO 16 31 99.9
Anglian Water Unnamed Drain NORMANBY PARK PUMPING STATION 26 31 100
Severn Trent Water Bottesford Beck BRIGG ROAD/STATION ROAD CSO 11 28 100
Anglian Water Unnamed Drain To River Humber WHITTON STW 13 25 100
Severn Trent Water Bottesford Beck SCUNTHORPE - ROCHDALE ROAD CSO 31 25 100
Anglian Water Unknown SCAWBY SEWER CSO 25 24 99.8
Severn Trent Water Neap House Drain CLIFF CLOSES ROAD CSO 41 13 100
Severn Trent Water Crosby Catchwater Drain DONCASTER RD CSO 11 6 99.4
Severn Trent Water Bottesford Beck Culvert SCUNTHORPE HIGH ST/ TRAFFORD ST CSO 7 3 100
Severn Trent Water Bottesford Beck QUEENSWAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 3 1 100
Severn Trent Water Bottesford Beck SCUNTHORPE - BERKELEY ST CSO 3 1 100
Severn Trent Water Earl Beauchamps Warping Drain BURRINGHAM ROAD CSO 3 1 100
Severn Trent Water Bottesford Beck SCUNTHORPE - HIGH ST-FRANCES ST CSO 1 0 100
Anglian Water Un Kettleby Bec BRIGG ROAD SPS 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent GUNNESS STW 0 0 100
Anglian Water Of New River Ancholme HIBALDSTOW - INGS LANE TPS 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Ancholme HIBALDSTOW - STATION ROAD SP 0 0 99.8
Severn Trent Water Bottesford Beck SCUNTHORPE - SPENCER AVENUE CSO 0 0 98.9

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

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