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Polluted by sewage 1,092 times in 2024 lasting 7,332 hours
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:30 AM) there has been 745 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 Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge, 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 Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge 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 1 of the total 29 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Severn Trent Water | Pasturefields Brook | HIXON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS | 113 | 1,221 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Trent | PIREHILL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS | 99 | 1,212 | 99.2 |
| United Utilities | Biddulph Brook, Rvr Dane | WHITEMORE PUMPING STATION | 108 | 1,145 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Carrwood Pk Brook Lady B | BRIARLANDS CL CSO AKA 4 ACK LANE | 92 | 631 | 99 |
| Severn Trent Water | Longnor Brook | WHEATON ASTON STW | 76 | 556 | 98.9 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Penk | PENKRIDGE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS | 45 | 450 | 98.7 |
| Severn Trent Water | Wyrley Brook | LITTLEWOOD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION | 41 | 365 | 93.2 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Trent | NEWCASTLE ROAD CSO | 89 | 288 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lincoln Brook | BLYMHILL LAWN SPS | 29 | 269 | 98 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Penk | COVEN HEATH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS | 31 | 267 | 99.8 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Sow | BRANCOTE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS | 24 | 176 | 96.7 |
| Severn Trent Water | Scotch Brook | CROWN STREET CSO | 59 | 169 | 90.3 |
| Severn Trent Water | Scotch Brook | STONEFIELD SQUARE OVERFLOW | 70 | 140 | 99.3 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Worfe | WESTON HALL PU ST. EMERG SEWAGE | 21 | 106 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Trent | RUGELEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS | 18 | 67 | 99.6 |
| Severn Trent Water | Wash Brook | LONG LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 26 | 58 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Wyrley Brook | STATION ROAD/103 WALSALL ROAD CSO | 28 | 46 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Wyrley Brook | LINGFIELD DRIVE CSO | 28 | 41 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Trent | GREAT HAYWOOD - MANHOLE NO.1 CSO | 11 | 31 | 47.7 |
| Severn Trent Water | Chillington Brook | BREWOOD SPS | 11 | 19 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Wyrley Brook | NO.266 WALSALL ROAD CSO | 19 | 17 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Latherford Brook | HILTON PARK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION | 6 | 15 | 99.4 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Penk | COPPENHALL PUMPING STATION | 3 | 12 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Wyrley Brook | HILTON LANE CSO | 17 | 6 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Bednall Brook | LOWER PENKRIDGE PUMPING STATION | 3 | 3 | 93.4 |
| Severn Trent Water | Receiving Water Not Defined | TRENT HOSPITAL STORM OVERFLOW | 10 | 3 | 93.9 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Penk | DUNSTON A449 TERMINAL PUMPING STN | 10 | 3 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Receiving Water Not Defined | TRENT HOSPITAL STORM OVERFLOW | 5 | 1 | 94.2 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Penk | STAFFORD ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.8 |
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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