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River Derwent polluted by sewage 1,971 times in 2025 - lasting 10,811 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Derwent 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 Derwent MATLOCK LEA STW 77 1,281 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent WHATSTANDWELL STW 58 986 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent MATLOCK BATH - DALE ROAD (COAL ME- 118 976 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent BASLOW STW 86 915 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DARLEY DALE NO 11 CSO 84 803 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DUFFIELD STW 57 657 99.1
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DERBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 49 458 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent HATHERSAGE STW 58 451 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent BELPER SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 44 373 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent THE RAILWAY LINE CSO 67 337 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DALE ROAD NORTH CSO 71 314 99.6
Severn Trent Water River Derwent CSO @ DARLEY BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 63 299 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent GREEN LANE PUMPING STATION 53 295 99.1
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DARLEY BRIDGE CSO 52 217 97.8
Severn Trent Water River Derwent ALVASTON CSO 47 197 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent AMBERGATE PS - STORM/EMERGENCY O/F 30 183 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Derwent AREAS MILFORD & BELPER/SM & EM O/F 98 180 98.75
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DALE ROAD NORTH (RLWY) CSO 44 177 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Derwent KEDLESTON ROAD CSO 46 146 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DRAYCOTT SPS - EMERGENCY OVERFLOW 31 141 64.8
Severn Trent Water River Derwent OKER-SNITTERTON-SNITTERTON ROAD SPS 21 110 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent OPPOSITE THE LODGE CSO 32 102 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent OFF STONEY GATE ROAD CSO 39 87 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent RAILWAY BRIDGE/DALE ROAD CSO 23 86 98.8
Severn Trent Water River Derwent EASTGATE PENTAGON ISLAND CSO 15 83 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DARLEY DALE - FOUR ENDS SPS 16 70 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DALE RD SOUTH-OFF OLD HACKNEY LANE 25 70 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent BARGATE ROAD CSO 12 69 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent STATION APPROACH CSO 30 61 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DERBY ROAD 31 60 96.3
Severn Trent Water River Derwent BRIDGE FOOT COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 18 57 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DERBY ROAD CSO 37 56 91.8
Severn Trent Water River Derwent MATLOCK MH79 UDC - IMPERIAL ROAD CS 37 52 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent WAYZGOOSE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 20 46 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent RIDDINGS LANE CSO 48 41 99.3
Severn Trent Water River Derwent CARBOLITE CSO 23 40 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Derwent SANDRINGHAM DRIVE CSO 28 40 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent LIME GROVE WALK/BANK ROAD PO CSO 61 33 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent MH AT JUNCTION OF BLACK TOR ROAD 22 32 93.3
Severn Trent Water River Derwent ANGLERS LANE CSO 7 32 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent BRIDGE HILL/BELPER LANE CSO 46 31 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent WILMORTON COLLEGE/HARROW STREET CSO 21 25 92.1
Severn Trent Water River Derwent NOTTINGHAM ROAD CSO 17 22 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent BRIDGE STREET CSO 35 20 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent BROADHOLME PUMPING STATION 6 20 96.1
Severn Trent Water River Derwent ENDSOR SEWAGE P S 8 19 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DARLEY ABBEY CSO 8 12 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent ALLESTREE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 3 8 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent CASTLE ORCHARD CSO 4 6 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent HOMESFORD SEWAGE PUMPING STN 9 5 99
Severn Trent Water River Derwent BRIDGE STREET-FIELD LANE JCN CSO 11 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent BONSALL DALE MH AT JUNCTION 3 1 98.8
Severn Trent Water River Derwent MEADOW ROAD SPS 1 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent BANK ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 4 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent STATION ROAD CSO 6 0 98.8
Severn Trent Water River Derwent NORTHWOOD LANE CSO 4 0 91.4
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DERBY ROAD CSO 4 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent THE FLEET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 2 0 84.7
Severn Trent Water River Derwent MH NEAR BONSALL CROSS 1 0 98.7
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DERBY ROAD/NEWBRIDGE ROAD JCT CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DARLEY ABBEY/ALLESTREE SW-STM/EMG 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent BAKEWELL ROAD / DIMPLE ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent MH NR STARKHOLMES FOOTBRIDGE 0 0 0
Severn Trent Water River Derwent SEWER MH CROMFORD MEADOWS 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent SEWER MH WOODEND LEA ROAD 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent BRIDGE INN/RAILWAY CROSSING - O/F 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent CASTLE ORCHARD PUMPING STATION 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

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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