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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Louth 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 place 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 | River Lud | LOUTH-CHURCHLIGHTS CSO | 25 | 112 | 99.8 |
| Anglian Water | River Lud/Louth Canal | SPAW LANE CSO | 32 | 79 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | Louth Canal | RIVERHEAD TANK SO | 9 | 76 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | River Lud | LOUTH BRACKENBOROUGH ROAD CSO | 19 | 60 | 97.4 |
| Anglian Water | Stewton Beck | PASTURES DRIVE CSO | 18 | 32 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | River Lud | LOUTH-GRAYS ROAD CSO | 16 | 30 | 99.9 |
| Anglian Water | River Lud | LOUTH GRIMSBY ROAD CISTERN CSO | 3 | 15 | 99.8 |
| Anglian Water | River Lud | LOUTH-BROADBANK CSO | 12 | 13 | 77.5 |
| Anglian Water | River Lud | LOVE LANE CSO | 2 | 2 | 99.9 |
| Anglian Water | River Lud | LOUTH-RAMSGATE CSO | 4 | 2 | 92.9 |
| Anglian Water | River Lud | LOUTH-NEWBRIDGE HILL CSO | 3 | 2 | 95.5 |
| Anglian Water | River Lud/Louth Canal | RAMSGATE ROAD CSO | 1 | 0 | 95 |
| Anglian Water | River Lud | LOUTH-BRIDGE STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Anglian Water | River Lud | LOUTH-JAMES STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 88.5 |
| Anglian Water | Stewton Beck | LOUTH-KENWICK CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
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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