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Polluted by sewage 836 times in 2024 lasting 4,008 hours
So far this year (as of May 29, 2025, 1:30 AM) there has been 1,192 hours of sewage overflows
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Newcastle-under-Lyme, 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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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Utilities | Audley Brook | AUDLEY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS | 140 | 1,188 | 95.5 |
| United Utilities | Mere Gutter | BETLEY WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS | 93 | 779 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Lea | MADLEY WWTW | 56 | 548 | 100 |
| United Utilities | River Lea | OFF MOSS LANE MADELEY CSO | 77 | 405 | 98 |
| Severn Trent Water | Fowlea Brook | ORFORD STREET CSO | 62 | 279 | 100 |
| United Utilities | Hazeley Brook | NEWCASTLE ROAD CSO | 57 | 240 | 98 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lyme Brook | THE HIGHERLAND NORTH CSO | 55 | 137 | 98.4 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lyme Brook | CLAYTON ROAD CSO | 28 | 69 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Fowlea Brook | LOWER OXFORD ROAD CSO | 33 | 60 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lyme Brook | STAFFORD AVENUE CSO | 15 | 56 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lyme Brook | SILVERDALE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION | 14 | 50 | 86.8 |
| United Utilities | Hazeley Brook | STATION ROAD CSO | 27 | 45 | 95.9 |
| United Utilities | Audley Brook | ALSAGER RD CSO | 14 | 34 | 99.4 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lyme Brook | ST MICHAELS ROAD CSO | 21 | 26 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lyme Brook | DARTMOUTH AVENUE CSO | 26 | 26 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lyme Brook | KING STREET CSO | 32 | 17 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Park Brook | CLAYTON RD SPS STOKE ON TRENT | 6 | 10 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Ashfield Brook | LAXLEY ROAD - ALBEMARIE ROAD CSO | 15 | 7 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Ashfeild Brook | BRYMBO ROAD CSO | 12 | 6 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lyme Brook | PILKINGTON AVENUE CSO | 12 | 5 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Fowlea Brook | ASDA - OXFORD STREET CSO | 18 | 3 | 99.9 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lyme Brook | LILLESHALL ROAD PLAYING FIELDS CSO | 3 | 3 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lyme Brook | THE HIGHERLAND SOUTH CSO | 6 | 2 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lyme Brook | HASSELL STREET CSO | 12 | 2 | 97.1 |
| Severn Trent Water | Fowlea Brook | WATLANDS VIEW CSO | 2 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Fowlea Brook | GARNER STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 57.1 |
| United Utilities | Hazeley Brook | FIELD NO.4649 OFF KEELE ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.5 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lyme Brook | LOOMER ROAD SPS | 0 | 0 | 97 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lyme/ Silverdale Brook | EJECTOR STATION AT APEDALE | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Fowlea Brook Via Sws | ETRURIA ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lyme Brook | NO. 159 THE AVENUE CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Lyme/Silverdale Brook | SILVERDALE-SILVERDALE ROAD 389 CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.8 |
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.
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