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Scunthorpe

Polluted by sewage 302 times in 2025 lasting 1,015 hours

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Totals for Scunthorpe in 2025

14 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
302 sewage dumps
1,015 hours duration
That's 1.41 months. 5.8 times a week, on average

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 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 %
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 Bottesford Beck SCUNTHORPE - 122 EAST COMMON LN CSO 56 155 99.8
Severn Trent Water Bottesford Beck GRANGE LANE NORTH CSO 16 31 99.9
Severn Trent Water Bottesford Beck BRIGG ROAD/STATION ROAD CSO 11 28 100
Severn Trent Water Bottesford Beck SCUNTHORPE - ROCHDALE ROAD CSO 31 25 100
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
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

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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