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Cannock Chase - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 435 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 1,862 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Cannock Chase so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 96 hours , 1,083 offline
Feb - 183 hours , 110 offline
Mar - 8 hours , 43 offline
Apr - 0 hours , 259 offline
May - 0 hours , 23 offline
Jun - 41 hours , 232 offline
Jul - 0 hours , 18 offline
Aug - 56 hours
Sept - 8 hours , 89 offline
Oct - 39 hours , 1 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK STW (SSTO) Saredon Brook, Ridings Brook 18 138h 29m -
Severn Trent Water NORTON CANES - BETTYS LANE (SSO) Gains Brook 26 136h 17m -
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - CANNOCK ROAD (SSO) Newlands Brook 13 59h 49m 131 h
Severn Trent Water NORTON CANES - WASHBROOK LANE (SSO) Of River Trent 17 36h 36m 107 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - WOLSELEY ROAD (SSO) River Trent 10 21h 53m 24 h
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - WELLINGTON DRIVE (SSO) Staffordshire Worcester Canal 6 9h 54m 89 h
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CANNOCK ROAD/SANKEY ROAD X (CSO) Ridings Brook 6 7h 54m -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CANNOCK ROAD/CEMETERY RD (CSO) Ridings Brook 13 6h 16m 25 h
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - KINGSWAY (CSO) Ridings Brook 6 4h 35m 198 h
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - CHEVIOT RISE (CSO) Ridings Brook 6 3h 43m 108 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - BRYANS LANE (CSO) Rising Brook 2 2h 44m 12 h
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - CANNOCK/CUMBERLAND RD (CSO) Ridings Brook 2 2h 4m 147 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - LOVE LANE/LEA HALL (CSO) River Trent 1 1h 3m 294 h
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - BOSTON CLOSE (CSO) River Trent 2 1h 29 h
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK WOOD - CHESTALL FARM (CSO) River Humber 4 0h 35m -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CEMETERY RD (CENTRAL PH) (CSO) Ridings Brook 2 0h 32m 133 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - ARMITAGE ROAD (SSO) River Trent 2 0h 27m -
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - CLEETON ST/CANNOCK RD (CSO) Newlands Brook 1 0h 24m -
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - SPRINGFIELD AVENUE (CSO) Trent And Mersey Canal 1 0h 20m 62 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - BRERETON PARK (CSO) River Trent 1 0h 20m 183 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - WOLSELEY ROAD (SSO) River Trent 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - HENDESFORD ROAD 195 (CSO) Newlands Brook 0 0h 108 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - BRYANS LANE (CSO) Rising Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water NORTON CANES - WASHBROOK LANE (SSO) Of River Trent 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK WOOD - CHESTALL FARM (CSO) River Humber 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - ARMITAGE LANE (CSO) River Trent 0 0h 18 h
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK STW (SSTO) Saredon Brook, Ridings Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - SPRINGFIELD AVENUE (CSO) Trent And Mersey Canal 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - CHEVIOT RISE (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - CLEETON ST/CANNOCK RD (CSO) Newlands Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - DEVON ROAD/SURREY CLOSE (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - DEVON ROAD/SURREY CLOSE (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CANNOCK ROAD/SANKEY ROAD 1 (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - CANNOCK/CUMBERLAND RD (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CANNOCK ROAD/SANKEY ROAD 1 (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0h 14 h
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CANNOCK ROAD/CEMETERY RD (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CEMETERY RD (CENTRAL PH) (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - CANNOCK ROAD (SSO) Newlands Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - ARMITAGE LANE (CSO) River Trent 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - BRADBURY LANE (CSO) Wem Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - KINGSWAY (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - WELLINGTON DRIVE (SSO) Staffordshire Worcester Canal 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - BOSTON CLOSE (CSO) River Trent 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - HENDESFORD ROAD 195 (CSO) Newlands Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - BRADBURY LANE (CSO) Wem Brook 0 0h 173 h
Severn Trent Water NORTON CANES - BETTYS LANE (SSO) Gains Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - ARMITAGE ROAD (SSO) River Trent 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - LOVE LANE/LEA HALL (CSO) River Trent 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CANNOCK ROAD/SANKEY ROAD X (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0h -

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.