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Derby South

Polluted by sewage 216 times in 2025 lasting 621 hours

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Live data for Derby South in 2026

So far this year (as of 12 Sept 2026, 14:45) there has been 337 hours of sewage overflows, from 38 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Derby South in 2025

18 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
216 sewage dumps
621 hours duration
That's 3.7 weeks. 4.2 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Derby South 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 Derwent GREEN LANE PUMPING STATION 53 295 99.1
Severn Trent Water River Derwent ALVASTON CSO 47 197 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent STATION APPROACH CSO 30 61 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Derwent WILMORTON COLLEGE/HARROW STREET CSO 21 25 92.1
Severn Trent Water Cuttle Brook DAVIDS CLOSE/STATION ROAD CSO 4 14 100
Severn Trent Water Meadow Drain SINFIN - WILMORE AVENUE CSO 2 11 98.5
Severn Trent Water Cotton Brook PROVIDENT STREET CSO 21 4 100
Severn Trent Water Markeaton Brook MORELEDGE / THORNTREE LANE CSO 11 4 99.7
Severn Trent Water Markeaton Brook ST PETERS STREET/EAST STREET CSO 7 3 99.2
Severn Trent Water Markeaton Brook VICTORIA STREET/FRIAR GATE JCT CSO 2 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent MEADOW ROAD SPS 1 1 100
Severn Trent Water Cotton Brook HARRINGTON ST/HOLCOMBE ST CSO 3 0 99.3
Severn Trent Water Cotton Brook PEAR TREE ROAD 6 0 99.3
Severn Trent Water Markeaton Brook GREEN LANE / MACKLIN STREET CSO 3 0 97.7
Severn Trent Water Cotton Brook SOCIETY PLACE CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water Cotton Brook PORTER ROAD/ALMOND ROAD CSO 1 0 99.1
Severn Trent Water Littleover Brook ABBEY STREET CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Cuttle Brook CUTTLE BROOK CLOSE CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Cotton Brook DALE ROAD/BYRON STREET CSO 0 0 98.8
Severn Trent Water Cotton Brook PEAR TREE RD/DAIRY HOUSE RD 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

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.

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