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Newcastle-under-Lyme - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,264 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 3,939 hours , potential overflows 82 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 - 1,112 hours , 38 potential
Feb - 4 hours , 427 offline
Mar - 7 hours , 282 offline
Apr - 11 hours , 81 offline
May - 20 hours , 40 offline
Jun - 52 hours , 20 potential
Jul - 24 hours , 389 offline
Aug - 0 hours , 46 offline
Sept - 141 hours , 0 potential
Oct - 104 hours , 15 potential
Nov - 212 hours , 2 potential
Dec - 574 hours , 5 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
United Utilities AUDLEY WwTW Audley Brook 38 412 h 6m 2 h
United Utilities AUDLEY WwTW Audley Brook 23 330 h 56m -
United Utilities BETLEY WwTW Mere Gutter 36 208 h 44m 1 h
United Utilities MADELEY WwTW River Lea 12 184 h 33m 25 h
United Utilities AUDLEY WwTW Audley Brook 25 158 h 19m 191 h
United Utilities Moss Lane (Madley) Combined Sewer Overflow River Lea 31 157 h 28m -
Severn Trent Water SILVERDALE - SILVERDALE ROAD (SSO) Lyme Brook 40 126 h 39m 20 h
United Utilities NEWCASTLE ROAD CSO Hazeley Brook 22 96 h 56m 31 h
United Utilities BETLEY WwTW Mere Gutter 17 86 h 10m -
United Utilities AUDLEY WwTW Audley Brook 13 77 h 26m 2 h
United Utilities NEWCASTLE ROAD CSO Hazeley Brook 11 74 h 52m 5 h
Severn Trent Water NEWCASTLE U LYME - MILEHOUSE LN (CSO) Lyme Brook 6 52 h 24m 723 h
Severn Trent Water SILVERDALE - SILVERDALE ROAD (SSO) Lyme Brook 12 41 h 20m -
United Utilities Moss Lane (Madley) Combined Sewer Overflow River Lea 8 40 h 18m -
Severn Trent Water CROSS HEATH - ST MICHAELS ROAD (CSO) Lyme Brook 27 28 h 9m 28 h
United Utilities MADELEY WwTW River Lea 3 24 h 51m -
Severn Trent Water NEWCASTLE - CLAYTON RD (HOMEBASE) (CSO) Lyme Brook 16 22 h 1m 210 h
United Utilities STATION ROAD (Keele) CSO River Calder 6 20 h 38m 14 h
Severn Trent Water NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME - STAFFORD AV (CSO) Lyme Brook 8 16 h 42m -
Severn Trent Water CLAYTON - CLAYTON ROAD (SSO) Park Brook 5 14 h 28m 211 h
Severn Trent Water CLAYTON - CLAYTON ROAD (SSO) Park Brook 2 13 h 42m -
Severn Trent Water CROSS HEATH - ST MICHAELS ROAD (CSO) Lyme Brook 7 12 h 21m 27 h
Severn Trent Water NEWCASTLE - THE HIGHERLAND (NORTH) (CSO) Lyme Brook 3 10 h 2m -
United Utilities Alsager Road Combined Sewer Overflow (Site ID 291BO) (NEW0039) Audley Brook 5 8 h 4m -
Severn Trent Water NEWCASTLE - CLAYTON RD (HOMEBASE) (CSO) Lyme Brook 5 7 h 36m -
Severn Trent Water NEWCASTLE - KING STREET (CSO) Lyme Brook 12 5 h 58m 68 h
Severn Trent Water NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME - STAFFORD AV (CSO) Lyme Brook 4 5 h 29m -
Severn Trent Water CROSS HEATH - LAXLEY ROAD (CSO) Ashfield Brook 11 5 h 10m 142 h
United Utilities STATION ROAD (Keele) CSO River Calder 4 4 h 48m 0 h
Severn Trent Water NEWCASTLE - THE HIGHERLAND (SOUTH) (CSO) Lyme Brook 4 4 h 12m 172 h
Severn Trent Water CROSS HEATH - BRYMBO ROAD (CSO) Ashfeild Brook 7 3 h 12m -
Severn Trent Water WESTLANDS - DARTMOUTH AVENUE (CSO) Lyme Brook 6 2 h 1m 68 h
Severn Trent Water WESTLANDS -PRIORY RD/PILKINGTON AV (CSO) Lyme Brook 4 2 h 160 h
Severn Trent Water NEWCASTLE - GEORGE ST/HASSELL ST (CSO) Lyme Brook 4 1 h 32m 36 h
Severn Trent Water SILVERDALE - NEWCASTLE ST/MILL ST (CSO) Lyme/Silverdale Brook 4 0 h 56m 29 h
Severn Trent Water CROSS HEATH - LAXLEY ROAD (CSO) Ashfield Brook 2 0 h 42m -
United Utilities Alsager Road Combined Sewer Overflow (Site ID 291BO) (NEW0039) Audley Brook 1 0 h 42m -
Severn Trent Water SILVERDALE - NEWCASTLE ST/MILL ST (CSO) Lyme/Silverdale Brook 1 0 h 18m -
Severn Trent Water NEWCASTLE - KING STREET (CSO) Lyme Brook 1 0 h 14m -
Severn Trent Water WESTLANDS -PRIORY RD/PILKINGTON AV (CSO) Lyme Brook 1 0 h 10m -
Severn Trent Water NEWCASTLE - THE HIGHERLAND (SOUTH) (CSO) Lyme Brook 1 0 h 6m -
Severn Trent Water NEWCASTLE - GEORGE ST/HASSELL ST (CSO) Lyme Brook 1 0 h 2m -
Severn Trent Water KNUTTON - COTSWOLD AVENUE PS (CSO) Day Brook\N 0 0 h 29 h
Severn Trent Water CHESTERTON - LOOMER ROAD PS (CSO) Lyme Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SILVERDALE - ELLAMS PLACE (CSO) Lyme/Silverdale Brook 0 0 h 116 h
United Utilities Field No. 4649 (off Keele Road) CSO Hazeley Brook 0 0 h 109 h
Severn Trent Water CHESTERTON - LOOMER ROAD PS (CSO) Lyme Brook 0 0 h 177 h
Severn Trent Water CHESTERTON - APEDALE ROAD PS (CSO) Lyme Brook 0 0 h 236 h
Severn Trent Water CHESTERTON - APEDALE ROAD PS (CSO) Lyme Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SILVERDALE - NEWCASTLE STREET (CSO) Lyme Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities Field No. 4649 (off Keele Road) CSO Hazeley Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CROSS HEATH - BRYMBO ROAD (CSO) Ashfeild Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SILVERDALE - CHURCH STREET (CSO) River Teme 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water KNUTTON - COTSWOLD AVENUE PS (CSO) Day Brook\N 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water ETRURIA - ETRURIA ROAD XXX (CSO) Fowlea Brook Via Sws 0 0 h 86 h
Severn Trent Water SILVERDALE - NEWCASTLE STREET (CSO) Lyme Brook 0 0 h 197 h
Severn Trent Water NEWCASTLE U LYME - MILEHOUSE LN (CSO) Lyme Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SILVERDALE - CHURCH STREET (CSO) River Teme 0 0 h 216 h
Severn Trent Water ETRURIA - ETRURIA ROAD XXX (CSO) Fowlea Brook Via Sws 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SILVERDALE - ELLAMS PLACE (CSO) Lyme/Silverdale Brook 0 0 h 677 h
Severn Trent Water NEWCASTLE - THE HIGHERLAND (NORTH) (CSO) Lyme Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water WESTLANDS - DARTMOUTH AVENUE (CSO) Lyme Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CROSS HEATH - HEMSTALLS LN (CSO) Lyme Brook\N 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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