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Polluted by sewage 1,215 times in 2025 lasting 6,012 hours

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Live data for Newark in 2026

So far this year (as of 15 Sept 2026, 07:30) there has been 9,648 hours of sewage overflows, from 95 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s - that's 1.12 years!

Sewage without rain in Newark

On 28 occasions since December 2024, no rain fell anywhere in Newark for days — and its CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s discharged anyway.

11 Jan - 17 Jan 2025 8 at once · 886h 4 Mar - 7 Mar 2026 7 at once · 360h 18 Jan - 19 Jan 2025 4 at once · 124h

Totals for Newark in 2025

33 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
1,215 sewage dumps
6,012 hours duration
That's 8.35 months. On average 3.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Newark in 2025. 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 SUTTON ON TRENT (CROMWELL) WWTW 125 1,600 99
Severn Trent Water Fleet COLLINGHAM STW 34 679 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent SOUTHWELL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 58 639 100
Severn Trent Water Moorhouse Beck LAXTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 54 554 99.4
Severn Trent Water Car Dyke ASLOCKTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 45 548 100
Severn Trent Water River Devon FARNDON STW 28 338 100
Severn Trent Water Laneham Beck MAIN STREET LANEHAM PUMPING STATION 30 201 99.8
Severn Trent Water Car Dyke FLINTHAM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 25 170 99.1
Severn Trent Water River Trent EAST BRIDGFORD STW 39 162 88
Severn Trent Water Car Dyke ELSTON STW 22 151 99.8
Severn Trent Water Tuxford Beck EAST MARKHAM STW 23 132 99.8
Severn Trent Water Potwell Dyke HALLOUGHTON RD - WEST GATE CSO 36 121 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent NEWARK (CRANKLEY POINT) STW 8 118 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Trent BURTON JOYCE PS EMERGENCY OVERFLOW 29 99 98.2
Severn Trent Water River Trent BALDERTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 6 86 100
Severn Trent Water River Greet SOUTHWELL - NEWARK ROAD CSO 27 82 99.5
Severn Trent Water North Beck GROVE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 26 77 98.9
Severn Trent Water Cotton Mill Dyke, R Greet FARNSFIELD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 491 70 100
Severn Trent Water Car Dyke SPRINGDALE LANE PUMPING STATION 11 52 100
Severn Trent Water River Greet OLD STATION SOUTHWELL CSO 19 45 98.9
Severn Trent Water Car Dyke SIBTHORPE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 2 18 99.9
Severn Trent Water Potwell Dyke CHURCH STREET CSO 30 15 99.9
Severn Trent Water Winter Beck ELTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 2 9 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent BEACON HILL ROAD CSO 8 9 98.4
Severn Trent Water River Whipling SUTTON VILLAGE - SUTTON LANE STW 6 8 99.4
Severn Trent Water River Devon NEWARK - BOUNDARY ROAD CSO 10 4 100
Severn Trent Water River Devon ALVERTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 1 4 99
Severn Trent Water Car Dyke SCREVETON - KNIGHTS CLOSE SPS 1 3 99
Severn Trent Water Middle Beck COTHAM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 3 2 99.8
Severn Trent Water Beck KNEESALL - A616 CSO 2 2 100
Severn Trent Water Gutter HAWKSWORTH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 1 1 100
Severn Trent Water Potwell Dyke SOUTHWELL - NOTTINGHAM ROAD CSO 10 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent CRANKLEY POINT TPS 3 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent AVERHAM S DIS SCHEME - EMERGEN OF 0 0 65.8
Severn Trent Water Beck Dyke FLINTHAM - MAIN STREET SEWAGE PS 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Halam Beck Brook HALAM SEWERAGE SYSTEM/STORM O/F 0 0 97.6
Severn Trent Water Beck Dyke KNEETON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 0 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water Fleet LOW STREET SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 98.6
Severn Trent Water River Trent NEWARK - MASSEY STREET CSO 0 0 99

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.

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