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Cannock Chase

Polluted by sewage 171 times in 2025 lasting 297 hours

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Live data for Cannock Chase in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 288 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 Cannock Chase in 2025

13 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
171 sewage dumps
297 hours duration
That's 1.77 weeks. 3.3 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Cannock Chase 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 Gains Brook NORTON CANES SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 31 113 100
Severn Trent Water Saredon Brook, Ridings Brook CANNOCK SEWAGE TREATEMENT WORKS 9 68 100
Severn Trent Water Newlands Brook CANNOCK ROAD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 8 30 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Trent RUGELEY - WOLSELEY ROAD SPS 21 29 100
Severn Trent Water Ridings Brook CANNOCK ROAD - CEMETRY ROAD CSO 39 24 100
Severn Trent Water Ridings Brook CHEVIOT RISE CSO 13 13 100
Severn Trent Water Ridings Brook CANNOCK ROAD - KINGSWAY CSO 18 6 100
Severn Trent Water Staffordshire Worcester Canal WELLINGTON DRIVE SPS 7 3 100
Severn Trent Water Rising Brook BRYANS LANE CSO 5 2 99.2
Severn Trent Water Trent And Mersey Canal SPRINGFIELD AVENUE CSO 16 2 100
Severn Trent Water Ridings Brook BLACKFORD CSO 1 2 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Trent ARMITAGE ROAD PUMPING STATION 1 0 99.95
Severn Trent Water River Trent RUGELEY - LOVE LANE SEWAGE PS 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water Red Brook ARMITAGE ROAD PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Ridings Brook CANNOCK ROAD - CENTRAL JUNCTION CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Ridings Brook CANNOCK ROAD CSO 0 0 89
Severn Trent Water Ridings Brook DEVON ROAD/SURREY CLOSE CSO 0 0 98.8

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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