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Cannock Chase was polluted by sewage 230 times in 2023
lasting 458 hours

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Totals for Cannock Chase in 2023
15 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
230 sewage dumps
458 h duration
That's 19.08 days. 4.4 times a week, on average
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Cannock Chase in 2023. 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 0 of the total 17 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water Gains Brook NORTON CANES SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 45 155 97
Severn Trent Water Saredon Brook, Ridings Brook CANNOCK SEWAGE TREATEMENT WORKS 21 119 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Trent RUGELEY - WOLSELEY ROAD SPS 31 46 70.5
Severn Trent Water Newlands Brook CANNOCK ROAD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 15 34 100
Severn Trent Water Trent And Mersey Canal SPRINGFIELD AVENUE CSO 22 33 79.9
Severn Trent Water Ridings Brook CANNOCK ROAD - CEMETRY ROAD CSO 27 16 97.6
Severn Trent Water Red Brook ARMITAGE ROAD PUMPING STATION 19 15 98.6
Severn Trent Water Ridings Brook CHEVIOT RISE CSO 13 12 95.9
Severn Trent Water Rising Brook BRYANS LANE CSO 8 12 73.3
Severn Trent Water Ridings Brook CANNOCK ROAD - KINGSWAY CSO 16 5 98.6
Severn Trent Water Staffordshire Worcester Canal WELLINGTON DRIVE SPS 6 4 100
Severn Trent Water Ridings Brook CANNOCK ROAD CSO 2 1 99.7
Severn Trent Water Ridings Brook BLACKFORD CSO 2 0 97.8
Severn Trent Water River Trent ARMITAGE ROAD PUMPING STATION 2 0 99.15
Severn Trent Water Ridings Brook DEVON ROAD/SURREY CLOSE CSO 1 0 67.7
Severn Trent Water Ridings Brook CANNOCK ROAD - CENTRAL JUNCTION CSO 0 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Trent RUGELEY - LOVE LANE SEWAGE PS 0 0 94.8

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. 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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