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Erewash

Polluted by sewage 462 times in 2024 lasting 4,171 hours

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Live data for Erewash in 2026

So far this year (as of 13 Mar 2026, 01:45) there has been 3,911 hours of sewage overflows, from 41 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Erewash in 2024

12 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
462 sewage dumps
4,171 hours duration
That's 5.79 months. On average 1.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Erewash in 2024. 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 Erewash Canal PASTURE LOCK CSO 134 1,214 92
Severn Trent Water River Erewash ILKESTON (HALLAM FIELDS) WWTW 95 1,196 87.3
Severn Trent Water River Erewash COSSALL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 53 658 99.1
Severn Trent Water River Erewash GALLOWS INN COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 51 575 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash EREWASH SQ ILKESTON OUTLET 3 CSO 39 348 95.9
Severn Trent Water River Erewash EAST OF STRATFORD STREET CSO 33 69 72.9
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DRAYCOTT SPS - EMERGENCY OVERFLOW 4 34 100
Severn Trent Water Golden Brook WILSTHORPE ROAD SPS 6 33 95.2
Severn Trent Water Nut Brook Canal ILKESTON - MANOR VIEW CSO 14 15 100
Severn Trent Water Golden Brook MARLBOROUGH ROAD (REAR) CSO 10 13 98
Severn Trent Water River Erewash SPRINGFIELD GARDEN B CSO 21 12 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash BENNETT STREET CSO 2 0 67.7
Severn Trent Water River Erewash MANHOLES 0 0 93.4
Severn Trent Water River Erewash STARCH LANE CSO 0 0 95.1
Severn Trent Water River Erewash WASH MEADOW CSO 0 0 98.5

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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