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River Wreake polluted by sewage 211 times in 2025 - lasting 1,349 hours

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Totals for River Wreake in 2025
16 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
211 sewage dumps
1,349 h duration
That's 1.87 months. 4.1 times a week, on average
Constituencies along River Wreake
Places along River Wreake

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Wreake WYMONDHAM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 43 668 100
Severn Trent Water River Wreake VARIOUS CSO'S-MELTON MOWBRAY AREA 10 104 96.45
Severn Trent Water River Wreake ASFORDBY COMBINED SEWAGE OVERFLOW 16 86 97.6
Severn Trent Water River Wreake WATER LANE - STORM/EMERGENCY O/F 14 84 99.6
Severn Trent Water River Wreake ASFORDBY ROAD - STORM OVERFLOW 40 53 89.1
Severn Trent Water River Wreake LEICESTER BRIDGE O/L G CSO 4 48 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Wreake ASFORDBY,KIRBY BELLARS,ROTHERBY PSS 17 47 97.5
Severn Trent Water River Wreake GREAT DALBY PUMPING STATION 7 46 95
Severn Trent Water River Wreake MELTON MOWBRAY STW 15 42 97.3
Severn Trent Water River Wreake LEICESTER BRIDGE O/L D CSO 5 35 100
Severn Trent Water River Wreake THRUSSINGTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 7 35 100
Severn Trent Water River Wreake ASFORDBY TERMINALSPS 3 32 100
Severn Trent Water River Wreake NOTTINGHAM ROAD / WELBY LANE CSO 15 25 100
Severn Trent Water River Wreake BURTON ROAD/ANKLE HILL CSO 4 15 100
Severn Trent Water River Wreake SCALFORD RD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 8 11 100
Severn Trent Water River Wreake MELTON MOWBRAY PS - STORM/EMERG OF 3 9 100
Severn Trent Water River Wreake CLUMBER CLOSE CSO 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

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.

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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