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Newcastle-under-Lyme

Polluted by sewage 545 times in 2025 lasting 2,300 hours

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Live data for Newcastle-under-Lyme in 2026

So far this year (as of 8 Sept 2026, 07:00) there has been 765 hours of sewage overflows, from 63 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Newcastle-under-Lyme in 2025

25 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water United Utilities
545 sewage dumps
2,300 hours duration
That's 3.19 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 %
United Utilities Audley Brook AUDLEY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 101 971 99.9
United Utilities Mere Gutter BETLEY WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS 47 251 96.2
United Utilities River Lea MADLEY WWTW 16 209 100
United Utilities River Lea OFF MOSS LANE MADELEY CSO 43 193 99.1
Severn Trent Water Fowlea Brook ORFORD STREET CSO 40 165 100
United Utilities Hazeley Brook NEWCASTLE ROAD CSO 34 161 99.3
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook SILVERDALE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 52 115 91
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook ST MICHAELS ROAD CSO 38 42 100
Severn Trent Water Fowlea Brook LOWER OXFORD ROAD CSO 9 38 100
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook CLAYTON ROAD CSO 23 34 100
Severn Trent Water Park Brook CLAYTON RD SPS STOKE ON TRENT 6 28 99.5
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook STAFFORD AVENUE CSO 11 23 100
United Utilities Hazeley Brook STATION ROAD CSO 11 22 99.7
United Utilities Audley Brook ALSAGER RD CSO 5 7 99.9
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook KING STREET CSO 19 7 100
Severn Trent Water Ashfield Brook LAXLEY ROAD - ALBEMARIE ROAD CSO 18 6 98.4
Severn Trent Water Ashfeild Brook BRYMBO ROAD CSO 11 4 100
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook DARTMOUTH AVENUE CSO 12 3 100
Severn Trent Water Fowlea Brook ASDA - OXFORD STREET CSO 15 2 100
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook PILKINGTON AVENUE CSO 8 2 100
Severn Trent Water Lyme/Silverdale Brook SILVERDALE-SILVERDALE ROAD 389 CSO 9 2 100
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook LILLESHALL ROAD PLAYING FIELDS CSO 3 1 100
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook THE HIGHERLAND SOUTH CSO 7 1 99.9
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook HASSELL STREET CSO 5 0 100
Severn Trent Water Fowlea Brook WATLANDS VIEW CSO 2 0 100
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
United Utilities Hazeley Brook FIELD NO.4649 OFF KEELE ROAD CSO 0 0 98.6
Severn Trent Water Fowlea Brook GARNER STREET CSO 0 0 94.1
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook LOOMER ROAD SPS 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook NO. 159 THE AVENUE CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook THE HIGHERLAND NORTH CSO 0 0 100

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.

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