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Cannock Chase - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 393 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 4,015 hours , potential overflows 103 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Cannock Chase for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 77 hours , 923 offline
Feb - 2 hours , 814 offline
Mar - 1 hours , 649 offline
Apr - 4 hours , 128 offline
May - 6 hours , 149 offline
Jun - 5 hours , 124 offline
Jul - 10 hours , 81 offline
Aug - 4 hours , 302 offline
Sept - 39 hours , 307 offline
Oct - 18 hours , 99 offline
Nov - 150 hours , 267 offline
Dec - 70 hours , 103 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Severn Trent Water NORTON CANES - BETTYS LANE (SSO) Gains Brook 26 102 h 19m -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK STW (SSTO) Saredon Brook, Ridings Brook 9 62 h 29m -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CANNOCK ROAD/SANKEY ROAD 1 (CSO) Ridings Brook 8 59 h 44m 165 h
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - CANNOCK ROAD (SSO) Newlands Brook 6 28 h 24m 30 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - WOLSELEY ROAD (SSO) River Trent 18 26 h 3m 33 h
Severn Trent Water NORTON CANES - WASHBROOK LANE (SSO) Of River Trent 16 23 h 34m 4 h
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CANNOCK ROAD/CEMETERY RD (CSO) Ridings Brook 30 21 h 13m 120 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - BRYANS LANE (CSO) Rising Brook 13 18 h 18m -
Severn Trent Water NORTON CANES - BETTYS LANE (SSO) Gains Brook 6 11 h 57m -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CANNOCK ROAD/SANKEY ROAD X (CSO) Ridings Brook 8 6 h 46m 280 h
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - KINGSWAY (CSO) Ridings Brook 12 5 h 41m 129 h
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - CHEVIOT RISE (CSO) Ridings Brook 7 5 h 34m 29 h
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK STW (SSTO) Saredon Brook, Ridings Brook 1 4 h 50m -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - WELLINGTON DRIVE (SSO) Staffordshire Worcester Canal 7 3 h 40m 94 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - WOLSELEY ROAD (SSO) River Trent 3 3 h 4m -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CANNOCK ROAD/CEMETERY RD (CSO) Ridings Brook 4 1 h 31m -
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - BOSTON CLOSE (CSO) River Trent 3 1 h 19m 373 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - SPRINGFIELD AVENUE (CSO) Trent And Mersey Canal 6 1 h 18m -
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - HENDESFORD ROAD 195 (CSO) Newlands Brook 2 1 h 17m 124 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - ARMITAGE LANE (CSO) River Trent 1 1 h 7m 387 h
Severn Trent Water NORTON CANES - WASHBROOK LANE (SSO) Of River Trent 1 0 h 57m -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - DEVON ROAD/SURREY CLOSE (CSO) Ridings Brook 1 0 h 27m -
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - CANNOCK ROAD (SSO) Newlands Brook 1 0 h 26m -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK WOOD - CHESTALL FARM (CSO) River Humber 1 0 h 25m 0 h
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CANNOCK ROAD/SANKEY ROAD X (CSO) Ridings Brook 1 0 h 12m -
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - CLEETON ST/CANNOCK RD (CSO) Newlands Brook 2 0 h 12m -
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - KINGSWAY (CSO) Ridings Brook 1 0 h 9m -
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - SPRINGFIELD AVENUE (CSO) Trent And Mersey Canal 1 0 h 1m 30 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - BRYANS LANE (CSO) Rising Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - HENDESFORD ROAD 195 (CSO) Newlands Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - BOSTON CLOSE (CSO) River Trent 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - ARMITAGE LANE (CSO) River Trent 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - BRERETON PARK (CSO) River Trent 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - LOVE LANE/LEA HALL (CSO) River Trent 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - CHEVIOT RISE (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0 h 40 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - ARMITAGE ROAD (SSO) River Trent 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CEMETERY RD (CENTRAL PH) (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - DEVON ROAD/SURREY CLOSE (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - WELLINGTON DRIVE (SSO) Staffordshire Worcester Canal 0 0 h 119 h
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK WOOD - CHESTALL FARM (CSO) River Humber 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CANNOCK ROAD/SANKEY ROAD 1 (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0 h 161 h
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - CANNOCK/CUMBERLAND RD (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0 h 973 h
Severn Trent Water CANNOCK - CEMETERY RD (CENTRAL PH) (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0 h 169 h
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - BRADBURY LANE (CSO) Wem Brook 0 0 h 726 h
Severn Trent Water HEATH HAYES - CLEETON ST/CANNOCK RD (CSO) Newlands Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - BRADBURY LANE (CSO) Wem Brook 0 0 h 124 h
Severn Trent Water HEDNESFORD - CANNOCK/CUMBERLAND RD (CSO) Ridings Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - ARMITAGE ROAD (SSO) River Trent 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - LOVE LANE/LEA HALL (CSO) River Trent 0 0 h -

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.

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