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Ashfield

Polluted by sewage 547 times in 2025 lasting 3,093 hours

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Live data for Ashfield in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 3,355 hours of sewage overflows, from 63 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Ashfield in 2025

23 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
547 sewage dumps
3,093 hours duration
That's 4.3 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Ashfield 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 Erewash PINXTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 67 1,021 99.7
Severn Trent Water Nunn Brook HUTHWAITE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 96 578 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash KIRKBY IN ASHFIELD SEWAGE TREATMENT 74 394 99.8
Severn Trent Water Skegby Brook SKEGBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 75 366 98.9
Severn Trent Water Kingsmill Reservoir SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD INLET SPS NO 2 56 366 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash MAIN ROAD CSO 27 95 100
Severn Trent Water Bagthorpe Brook BAGTHORPE CSO 23 71 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Maun COXMOOR ROAD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 20 63 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Maun PEEL STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 18 48 100
Severn Trent Water River Meden SKEGBY-COLLIERY VALLEY CSO 27 25 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash KIRKBY-IN-ASHFIELD - LANE END CSO 13 19 97.9
Severn Trent Water River Erewash REGENT STREET CSO 5 8 100
Severn Trent Water River Maun\Kingsmill Reservoir SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD STW 2 7 100
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 Erewash ANNESLEY WOODHOUSE- FOREST RD A CSO 4 5 100
Severn Trent Water Dumbles MOSELEY ROAD CSO 4 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Maun KIRKBY FOLLY ROAD ROUNDHILL CSO 9 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Meden MEDEN BANK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 2 1 99.4
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 Maun LUCKNOW DR/BROOKDALE RD CSO 3 0 100
Severn Trent Water Alfreton Brook CROSS LANE CSO 3 0 100
Severn Trent Water Alfreton Brook COMMON ROAD CSO 0 0 98.6
Severn Trent Water River Maun COXMOOR ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Normanton Brook HUTHWAITE - BLACKWELL ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Maun PEPPER STREET CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash SELSTON GREEN - SELSTON RD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Nunn Brook SPRINGWELL STREET CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Maun SUTTON IN ASHFIELD 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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