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River Meden polluted by sewage 139 times in 2025 - lasting 330 hours

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Totals for River Meden in 2025
13 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
139 sewage dumps
330 h duration
That's 1.96 weeks. 2.7 times a week, on average
Constituencies along River Meden

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Meden 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 Meden CHURCH WARSOP WWTW 30 164 99.5
Severn Trent Water River Meden NETHERFIELD LN STORM SEWAGE OVERFLW 37 50 99.6
Severn Trent Water River Meden CHURCH RD/EASTLANDS LANE JCN CSO 4 40 100
Severn Trent Water River Meden BURNS LANE STROM OVERFLOW 6 28 100
Severn Trent Water River Meden SKEGBY-COLLIERY VALLEY CSO 27 25 100
Severn Trent Water River Meden FACKLEY ROAD CSO 2 6 98.4
Severn Trent Water River Meden PLEASLEY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 7 5 100
Severn Trent Water River Meden WARSOP - STONEBRIDGE LANE SPS 12 3 100
Severn Trent Water River Meden MEDEN BANK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 2 1 99.4
Severn Trent Water River Meden MANOR ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Meden OXCLOSE LANE SPS 4 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Meden SKEGBY - MANSFIELD ROAD SSO 6 1 97.6
Severn Trent Water River Meden SHIREBROOK SEWERAGE SYSTEM CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Meden WILKINSONS CLOSE CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Meden MARKET WARSOP - THE HAWTHORNS CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Meden WARSOP - STONEBRIDGE LANE 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

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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