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Polluted by sewage 302 times in 2024 lasting 701 hours
So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:00 AM) there has been 86 hours of sewage overflows
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Cannock Chase, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Cannock Chase in 2024. 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 CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Severn Trent Water | Saredon Brook, Ridings Brook | CANNOCK SEWAGE TREATEMENT WORKS | 34 | 226 | 99.9 |
| Severn Trent Water | Gains Brook | NORTON CANES SEWAGE PUMPING STATION | 40 | 207 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Trent | RUGELEY - WOLSELEY ROAD SPS | 39 | 90 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Rising Brook | BRYANS LANE CSO | 63 | 75 | 95.5 |
| Severn Trent Water | Newlands Brook | CANNOCK ROAD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION | 17 | 28 | 99.8 |
| Severn Trent Water | Ridings Brook | CANNOCK ROAD - CEMETRY ROAD CSO | 30 | 26 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Staffordshire Worcester Canal | WELLINGTON DRIVE SPS | 14 | 13 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Ridings Brook | CHEVIOT RISE CSO | 13 | 13 | 94.3 |
| Severn Trent Water | Ridings Brook | CANNOCK ROAD - KINGSWAY CSO | 17 | 8 | 99.9 |
| Severn Trent Water | Trent And Mersey Canal | SPRINGFIELD AVENUE CSO | 21 | 5 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Red Brook | ARMITAGE ROAD PUMPING STATION | 3 | 2 | 90.4 |
| Severn Trent Water | Ridings Brook | CANNOCK ROAD - CENTRAL JUNCTION CSO | 4 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Trent | RUGELEY - LOVE LANE SEWAGE PS | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Trent | ARMITAGE ROAD PUMPING STATION | 4 | 0 | 98.25 |
| Severn Trent Water | Ridings Brook | CANNOCK ROAD CSO | 2 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Ridings Brook | BLACKFORD CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.95 |
| Severn Trent Water | Ridings Brook | DEVON ROAD/SURREY CLOSE 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. This 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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