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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 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 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 | Pyford/Leamonsley Brook | MANHOLE E | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Curborough Brook | MARKET STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 87.3 |
| Severn Trent Water | Curborough Brook | MARKET STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 98 |
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.
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