Lichfield was polluted by sewage 744 times in 2024
lasting 7,927 hours

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✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023

Live data for Lichfield in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 5:45 PM) there has been 1,139 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Lichfield in 2024

16 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water

744 sewage dumps
7,927 h duration

That's 11.01 months. On average 2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Lichfield

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Lichfield, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Lichfield 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 0 of the total 19 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Severn Trent Water	River Trent	BARTON UNDER NEEDWOOD STW	155	3,101	99.7
Severn Trent Water	Mires Brook	ABBOTS BROMLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WKS	135	1,380	89.4
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	ELMHURST SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	90	1,276	91.7
Severn Trent Water	River Swarbourne	NEWBOROUGH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	61	712	100
Severn Trent Water	Crane Brook	BURNTWOOD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	41	334	99.2
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	LICHFIELD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	55	289	99.6
Severn Trent Water	River Swarbourn	YOXALL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	42	270	100
Severn Trent Water	Shropshire Brook	ARMITAGE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	49	229	100
Severn Trent Water	Bourne/Black/Crane Brook	CHASETOWN PUMPING STATION	21	80	100
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	ALREWAS SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	8	58	99
Severn Trent Water	Barton Brook	BARTON UNDER NEEDWOOD CSO	15	57	94.7
Severn Trent Water	Burntwood Brook	BURNTWOOD ROAD STORM OVERFLOW	17	49	98.3
Severn Trent Water	Burntwood Brook	RYKNEILD STREET PUMPING STATION	10	39	100
Severn Trent Water	Curborough Brook	FRIARY AVENUE-BIRMINGHAM ROAD CSO	15	23	100
Severn Trent Water	River Trent	OLD ROAD CSO AT ARMITAGE SPS	4	11	100
Severn Trent Water	Curborough Brook	EASTON AVENUE/NETHERSTOWE LANE	26	10	99.9
Severn Trent Water	Curborough Brook	MARKET STREET CSO	0	0	98
Severn Trent Water	Pyford/Leamonsley Brook	MANHOLE E	0	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Curborough Brook	MARKET STREET CSO	0	0	87.3

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. This 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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