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Lichfield - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,072 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 2,607 hours , potential overflows 663 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Lichfield 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 - 588 hours , 548 potential
Feb - 0 hours , 702 offline
Mar - 1 hours , 59 offline
Apr - 6 hours , 12 offline
May - 131 hours , 38 potential
Jun - 11 hours , 165 offline
Jul - 70 hours , 48 potential
Aug - 22 hours , 72 offline
Sept - 74 hours , 202 offline
Oct - 79 hours , 303 offline
Nov - 609 hours , 27 potential
Dec - 477 hours , 66 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 27 376 h 37m 63 h
Severn Trent Water BUXTON STW (SSTO) River Wye 27 346 h 42m -
Severn Trent Water WALL - WATLING STREET (SSO) Burntwood Brook 66 269 h 24m 50 h
Severn Trent Water BURNTWOOD STW (SSTO) Crane Brook 19 114 h 8m 48 h
Severn Trent Water ABBOTS BROMLEY STW (SSTO) Mires Brook 23 111 h 19m -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD STW (CSO) Full Brook 13 76 h 4m 4 h
Severn Trent Water NEWBOROUGH STW (CSO) River Swarbourn 8 75 h 37m -
Severn Trent Water WALL - WATLING STREET (SSO) Burntwood Brook 12 74 h 34m 10 h
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - MARKET STREET XX (CSO) Curborough Brook 15 73 h 56m 23 h
Severn Trent Water YOXALL - BOND END (CSO) River Swarbourn 13 65 h 9m 382 h
Severn Trent Water NASH LANE - ELMHURST STW (CSO) Full Brook 10 64 h 55m 136 h
Severn Trent Water BARTON STW (SSTO) River Trent 7 60 h 10m -
Severn Trent Water ARMITAGE STW (SSTO) Shropshire Brook 12 54 h 44m 4 h
Severn Trent Water NEWBOROUGH STW (CSO) River Swarbourn 13 54 h 33m 577 h
Severn Trent Water CHASETOWN - TRIANGLE (SSO) Bourne/Black/Crane Brook 12 38 h 10m 52 h
Severn Trent Water BUXTON STW INLET STORM OVERFLOW (CSO) River Wye 12 34 h 27m -
Severn Trent Water COLTON-OFF MARTIN LANE (CSO) Moreton Brook 25 31 h 46m -
Severn Trent Water LICHFILED STW (SSTO) Full Brook 8 17 h 28m 81 h
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD STW (CSO) Full Brook 3 17 h 8m -
Severn Trent Water BARTON UNDER NEEDWOOD - VILLAGE (CSO) Barton Brook 5 16 h 16m 227 h
Severn Trent Water YOXALL - BOND END (CSO) River Swarbourn 3 13 h 27m -
Severn Trent Water HAMMERWICH - BURNTWOOD ROAD XX (CSO) Burntwood Brook 13 13 h 20m 55 h
Severn Trent Water ALREWAS STW (SSTO) River Tame 3 11 h 33m -
Severn Trent Water ABBOTS BROMLEY STW (SSTO) Mires Brook 2 10 h 53m -
Severn Trent Water BURNTWOOD STW (SSTO) Crane Brook 2 9 h 14m -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - BIRMINGHAM ROAD (CSO) Curborough Brook 8 7 h 21m 30 h
Severn Trent Water ARMITAGE - OLD RD PS (STORM TANKS) (CSO) River Trent 8 6 h 45m 4 h
Severn Trent Water ARMITAGE STW (SSTO) Shropshire Brook 2 6 h 18m -
Severn Trent Water NASH LANE - ELMHURST STW (CSO) Full Brook 1 4 h 39m 44 h
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - EASTERN AVENUE (CSO) Curborough Brook 8 4 h 13m 35 h
Severn Trent Water LICHFILED STW (SSTO) Full Brook 1 4 h 9m -
Severn Trent Water CHASETOWN - TRIANGLE (SSO) Bourne/Black/Crane Brook 2 2 h 35m -
Severn Trent Water BARTON UNDER NEEDWOOD - VILLAGE (CSO) Barton Brook 1 1 h 42m 66 h
Severn Trent Water COLTON-OFF MARTIN LANE (CSO) Moreton Brook 3 1 h 15m -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD -MARKET ST(GEORGE HOTEL) (CSO) Curborough Brook 1 1 h 5m -
Severn Trent Water HAMMERWICH - BURNTWOOD ROAD XX (CSO) Burntwood Brook 1 0 h 36m -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - THE FRIARY (CSO) River Erewash 5 0 h 14m 330 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - SANDY LANE (CSO) Tret And Meresy Canal 1 0 h 220 h
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - THE FRIARY (CSO) River Erewash 0 0 h 40 h
Severn Trent Water RUGELEY - SANDY LANE (CSO) Tret And Meresy Canal 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD -MARKET ST(GEORGE HOTEL) (CSO) Curborough Brook 0 0 h 622 h
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - ST JOHN ST (HOSPITAL) (CSO) Curborough Brook Via Sws 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water ALREWAS STW (SSTO) River Tame 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - MARKET STREET XX (CSO) Curborough Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - BIRMINGHAM ROAD (CSO) Curborough Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - NETHERSTOWE (CSO) Pyford/Leamonsley Brook 0 0 h 159 h
Severn Trent Water ARMITAGE - OLD RD PS (STORM TANKS) (CSO) River Trent 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - EASTERN AVENUE (CSO) Curborough Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water LICHFIELD - NETHERSTOWE (CSO) Pyford/Leamonsley Brook 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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