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River Lud polluted by sewage 93 times in 2025 - lasting 277 hours

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Totals for River Lud in 2025
9 Sites polluted by Anglian Water
93 sewage dumps
277 h duration
That's 1.65 weeks. 1.8 times a week, on average
Constituencies along River Lud
Places along River Lud

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Lud in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Anglian Water River Lud LOUTH-CHURCHLIGHTS CSO 25 112 99.8
Anglian Water River Lud LOUTH BRACKENBOROUGH ROAD CSO 19 60 97.4
Anglian Water River Lud WELTON LE WOLD WRC 9 39 99.9
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-BRIDGE STREET CSO 0 0 100
Anglian Water River Lud LOUTH-JAMES STREET CSO 0 0 88.5

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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