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Lichfield - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,909 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 1,653 hours , potential overflows 63 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Lichfield so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

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 - 748 hours , 63 potential
Feb - 1,692 hours
Mar - 202 hours , 95 offline
Apr - 2 hours , 138 offline
May - 14 hours , 4 offline
Jun - 60 hours , 67 offline
Jul - 8 hours
Aug - 164 hours
Sept - 15 hours , 43 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Severn Trent Water BARTON STW (SSTO) River Trent 58 1,034h 14m 81 h
Severn Trent Water BUXTON STW (SSTO) River Wye 37 323h 7m -
Severn Trent Water NEWBOROUGH STW (CSO) River Swarbourn 33 292h 7m 122 h
Severn Trent Water BURNTWOOD STW (SSTO) Crane Brook 22 207h -
Severn Trent Water ARMITAGE STW (SSTO) Shropshire Brook 31 192h 59m 96 h
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD STW (CSO) Full Brook 23 182h 32m -
Severn Trent Water ABBOTS BROMLEY STW (SSTO) Mires Brook 17 156h 59m 95 h
Severn Trent Water YOXALL - BOND END (CSO) River Swarbourn 25 146h 59m -
Severn Trent Water NASH LANE - ELMHURST STW (CSO) Full Brook 20 76h 31m 136 h
Severn Trent Water CHASETOWN - TRIANGLE (SSO) Bourne/Black/Crane Brook 17 61h 41m 108 h
Severn Trent Water LICHFILED STW (SSTO) Full Brook 17 56h 42m -
Severn Trent Water BUXTON STW INLET STORM OVERFLOW (CSO) River Wye 34 49h 49m -
Severn Trent Water BARTON UNDER NEEDWOOD - VILLAGE (CSO) Barton Brook 9 38h 36m 140 h
Severn Trent Water COLTON-OFF MARTIN LANE (CSO) Moreton Brook 19 35h 50m -
Severn Trent Water HAMMERWICH - BURNTWOOD ROAD XX (CSO) Burntwood Brook 9 16h -
Severn Trent Water ARMITAGE - OLD RD PS (STORM TANKS) (CSO) River Trent 6 11h 26m -
Severn Trent Water WALL - WATLING STREET (SSO) Burntwood Brook 3 11h 12m -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - EASTERN AVENUE (CSO) Curborough Brook 6 8h 58m 108 h
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - BIRMINGHAM ROAD (CSO) Curborough Brook 3 2h 40m 33 h
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - THE FRIARY (CSO) River Erewash 1 1h 43m 175 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - SANDY LANE (CSO) Tret And Meresy Canal 1 1h 16m 95 h
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - ST JOHN ST (HOSPITAL) (CSO) Curborough Brook Via Sws 2 0h 52m 108 h
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - MARKET STREET XX (CSO) Curborough Brook 1 0h 28m 108 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - SANDY LANE (CSO) Tret And Meresy Canal 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water ARMITAGE - OLD RD PS (STORM TANKS) (CSO) River Trent 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water COLTON-OFF MARTIN LANE (CSO) Moreton Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - NETHERSTOWE (CSO) Pyford/Leamonsley Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water ALREWAS STW (SSTO) River Tame 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HAMMERWICH - BURNTWOOD ROAD XX (CSO) Burntwood Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BURNTWOOD STW (SSTO) Crane Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BARTON STW (SSTO) River Trent 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD -MARKET ST(GEORGE HOTEL) (CSO) Curborough Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - BIRMINGHAM ROAD (CSO) Curborough Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water ABBOTS BROMLEY STW (SSTO) Mires Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water ALREWAS STW (SSTO) River Tame 0 0h 108 h
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD -MARKET ST(GEORGE HOTEL) (CSO) Curborough Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - NETHERSTOWE (CSO) Pyford/Leamonsley Brook 0 0h 198 h
Severn Trent Water YOXALL - BOND END (CSO) River Swarbourn 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water ARMITAGE STW (SSTO) Shropshire Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - THE FRIARY (CSO) River Erewash 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water NEWBOROUGH STW (CSO) River Swarbourn 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water WALL - WATLING STREET (SSO) Burntwood Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BARTON UNDER NEEDWOOD - VILLAGE (CSO) Barton Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD STW (CSO) Full Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - MARKET STREET XX (CSO) Curborough Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CHASETOWN - TRIANGLE (SSO) Bourne/Black/Crane Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LICHFILED STW (SSTO) Full Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water NASH LANE - ELMHURST STW (CSO) Full Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - EASTERN AVENUE (CSO) Curborough Brook 0 0h -

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.