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Erewash - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 3,874 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 1,327 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Erewash 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 - 804 hours , 283 offline
Feb - 25 hours , 200 offline
Mar - 1 hours , 181 offline
Apr - 0 hours , 101 offline
May - 69 hours , 36 offline
Jun - 8 hours , 22 offline
Jul - 16 hours , 136 offline
Aug - 10 hours
Sept - 216 hours
Oct - 106 hours , 120 offline
Nov - 1,587 hours , 1 potential
Dec - 1,024 hours , 132 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Severn Trent Water ILKESTON - HALLAM FIELDS STW (SSTO) River Erewash 77 1,217 h 10m -
Severn Trent Water ILKESTON - HALLAM FIELDS STW (SSTO) River Erewash 40 766 h 34m -
Severn Trent Water ILKESTON - GALLOWS INN PLAYING FLD (SO) River Erewash 25 191 h 44m -
Severn Trent Water OCKBROOK - NOONING LANE (DRAYCOTT) (ESO) Cecilly Brook 40 176 h 40m -
Severn Trent Water COSSALL - ILKESTON JUNCTION (SSO) River Erewash 28 170 h 37m -
Severn Trent Water KIRK HALLAM - WESTERN OUTFALL TANK (SSO) Nut Brook 12 150 h 51m -
Severn Trent Water KIRK HALLAM - WESTERN OUTFALL TANK (SSO) Nut Brook 13 145 h 49m -
Severn Trent Water COSSALL - ILKESTON JUNCTION (SSO) River Erewash 13 136 h 2m -
Severn Trent Water ILKESTON - POTTERS LOCK (SSO) River Erewash 14 121 h 52m 68 h
Severn Trent Water SANDIACRE - PASTURE LOCK (CSO) Erewash Canal 34 121 h 6m -
Severn Trent Water DRAYCOTT-SAWLEY ROAD (ESO) River Derwent 24 105 h 15m -
Severn Trent Water SANDIACRE - MARK STREET (SO) River Erewash 16 84 h 51m -
Severn Trent Water SANDIACRE - PASTURE LOCK (CSO) Erewash Canal 12 83 h 34m -
Severn Trent Water OCKBROOK - NOONING LANE (DRAYCOTT) (ESO) Cecilly Brook 14 62 h 15m -
Severn Trent Water DRAYCOTT-SAWLEY ROAD (ESO) River Derwent 9 46 h 51m -
Severn Trent Water ILKESTON - GALLOWS INN PLAYING FLD (SO) River Erewash 7 46 h 3m -
Severn Trent Water ILKESTON - POTTERS LOCK (SSO) River Erewash 6 45 h 24m -
Severn Trent Water ILKESTON - BENNERLEY FIELDS (CSO) River Erewash 18 45 h 10m 633 h
Severn Trent Water BREASTON - RISLEY LANE (SO) Golden Brook 15 32 h 19m -
Severn Trent Water SANDIACRE - MARK STREET (SO) River Erewash 7 27 h 25m -
Severn Trent Water BREASTON - MARLBOROUGH ROAD (CSO) Golden Brook 5 26 h 2m -
Severn Trent Water ILKESTON - RUTLAND STREET (CSO) River Erewash 5 24 h 37m 1 h
Severn Trent Water BREASTON - WILSTHORPE ROAD (SSO) Golden Brook 4 12 h 12m 112 h
Severn Trent Water ILKESTON - BENNERLEY FIELDS (CSO) River Erewash 6 10 h 55m 246 h
Severn Trent Water BREASTON - SOUTH OF CHURCH (CSO) Golden Brook 5 9 h 32m 12 h
Severn Trent Water BREASTON - RISLEY LANE (SO) Golden Brook 1 6 h 28m -
Severn Trent Water ILKESTON - SPRINGFIELD GARDEN B (CSO) River Erewash 7 2 h 37m -
Severn Trent Water LONG EATON - BENNET ST/ CANAL ST (CSO) River Erewash 1 2 h 22m 255 h
Severn Trent Water ILKESTON - MANOR VIEW (CSO) Nut Brook Canal 4 0 h 51m -
Severn Trent Water BREASTON - WILSTHORPE ROAD (SSO) Golden Brook 1 0 h 36m -
Severn Trent Water BREASTON - MARLBOROUGH ROAD (CSO) Golden Brook 1 0 h 26m -
Severn Trent Water SANDIACRE - STARCH LANE (CSO) River Erewash 2 0 h 20m -
Severn Trent Water BREASTON - WOODLAND AVENUE (SO) Golden Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water ILKESTON - NELSON STREET (CSO) River Erewash 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water LONG EATON - BENNET ST/ CANAL ST (CSO) River Erewash 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water ILKESTON - RUTLAND STREET (CSO) River Erewash 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water BREASTON - SOUTH OF CHURCH (CSO) Golden Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water BREASTON - WOODLAND AVENUE (SO) Golden Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water ILKESTON - MANOR VIEW (CSO) Nut Brook Canal 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water ILKESTON - SPRINGFIELD GARDEN B (CSO) River Erewash 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SANDIACRE - STARCH LANE (CSO) River Erewash 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.

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