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Lichfield

Polluted by sewage 210 times in 2025 lasting 1,208 hours

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Live data for Lichfield in 2026

So far this year (as of 16 Aug 2026, 13:15) there has been 2,729 hours of sewage overflows, from 49 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Lichfield in 2025

15 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
210 sewage dumps
1,208 hours duration
That's 1.68 months. 4 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Lichfield 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 constituency 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 River Trent BARTON UNDER NEEDWOOD STW 33 449 100
Severn Trent Water Mires Brook ABBOTS BROMLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WKS 27 151 99.9
Severn Trent Water Full Brook LICHFIELD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 23 117 100
Severn Trent Water River Swarbourne NEWBOROUGH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 15 91 77.6
Severn Trent Water River Swarbourn YOXALL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 19 85 100
Severn Trent Water Crane Brook BURNTWOOD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 12 80 98.2
Severn Trent Water Full Brook ELMHURST SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 13 69 98.2
Severn Trent Water Shropshire Brook ARMITAGE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 14 57 100
Severn Trent Water Bourne/Black/Crane Brook CHASETOWN PUMPING STATION 14 43 94.2
Severn Trent Water Barton Brook BARTON UNDER NEEDWOOD CSO 6 18 100
Severn Trent Water Burntwood Brook BURNTWOOD ROAD STORM OVERFLOW 12 14 99
Severn Trent Water River Tame ALREWAS SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 3 14 100
Severn Trent Water Curborough Brook EASTON AVENUE/NETHERSTOWE LANE 7 7 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent OLD ROAD CSO AT ARMITAGE SPS 7 5 100
Severn Trent Water Curborough Brook FRIARY AVENUE-BIRMINGHAM ROAD CSO 5 2 99.8
Severn Trent Water Curborough Brook LICHFIELD - NETHERSTOWE CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Curborough Brook MARKET STREET CSO 0 0 97.1
Severn Trent Water Curborough Brook MARKET STREET CSO 0 0 95.9
Severn Trent Water Burntwood Brook RYKNEILD STREET PUMPING STATION 0 0 96.9

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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