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Sleaford and North Hykeham

Polluted by sewage 459 times in 2025 lasting 4,523 hours

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Live data for Sleaford and North Hykeham in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 6,169 hours of sewage overflows, from 48 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Sleaford and North Hykeham in 2025

21 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
459 sewage dumps
4,523 hours duration
That's 6.28 months. On average 1.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sleaford and North Hykeham 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 %
Anglian Water Un R Brant LEADENHAM STW 49 935 100
Anglian Water Beck To River Sl SOUTH RAUCEBY WATER RECYCLING CENTR 71 671 97.6
Anglian Water Car Dyke Meth'Gham Delph Rive METHERINGHAM STW 55 668 99.8
Anglian Water Billinghay Soke Dyke BILLINGHAY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 48 400 98.6
Anglian Water River Brant BRANT BROUGHTON WATER RECYCLING CTR 23 362 98.7
Anglian Water Heckington Eau HECKINGTON STW 36 267 100
Anglian Water Old River Slea SLEAFORD WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 48 243 100
Anglian Water River Witham BASSINGHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 48 232 100
Anglian Water Un River Witham SWINDERBY(EXRAF) STW 13 200 99.1
Anglian Water River Witham NORTH HYKEHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTR 17 182 100
Anglian Water Navenby Beck NAVENBY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 9 110 99.5
Anglian Water Unnamed Drain EAGLE PUMPING STATION 12 80 99.9
Anglian Water Ruskington Beck RUSKINGTON STW SPS 10 68 98.3
Anglian Water Unknown FEN ROAD PS 4 37 100
Anglian Water Car Dyke WALCOTT - THE DRIFT PUMPING STATION 4 36 100
Anglian Water Kyme Eau SOUTH KYME STW 2 10 100
Anglian Water Soke Dyke R Witham ELIZABETH AVENUE PS 1 5 100
Anglian Water Unknown Nine Foot Drain GRANTHAM RD - SLEAFORD 4 5 99.9
Anglian Water Ruskington Beck RUSKINGTON MH0102 MANOR STREET CSO 3 4 100
Anglian Water Dyke To River Slea SLEAFORD - ST GILES AVENUE SPS 1 0 100
Anglian Water Old River Slea SLEAFORD MH 53 CARR STREET 1 0 99.9
Anglian Water Un Anwick Soke ANWICK-RIVER LANE TPS 0 0 100
Anglian Water Dyke Kyne Eau FERRY LANE NORTH KYME 0 0 100
Anglian Water Leasingham Beck LEASINGHAM - MOOR LA TPS 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.

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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