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Rugby

Polluted by sewage 175 times in 2025 lasting 1,308 hours

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Live data for Rugby in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 898 hours of sewage overflows, from 39 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Rugby in 2025

14 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
175 sewage dumps
1,308 hours duration
That's 1.82 months. 3.4 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rugby 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 Swift CHURCHOVER SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 22 442 100
Severn Trent Water Wem Brook BEDWORTH MARSTON LANE WWTW 23 186 97.6
Severn Trent Water Hillmorton Paddox Brook HILLMORTON STORM TANKS 14 144 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon RUGBY NEWBOLD STW 18 138 99.5
Severn Trent Water Wem Brook BULKINGTON WWTW 18 122 100
Severn Trent Water River Anker ANKER BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 10 70 98
Severn Trent Water Little Lawford Brook HARBOROUGH MAGNA STW 31 69 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon CHURCH LAWFORD STW 4 52 100
Severn Trent Water Smite Brook BRINKLOW COMBINED CSO 10 19 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon NEWBOLD-AVON LANE CSO 11 18 100
Severn Trent Water River Anker FINDON CLOSE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 4 16 99.6
Severn Trent Water Kings Newnham Brook RUGBY ROAD PUMPING STN. - EMERG O/F 2 14 100
Severn Trent Water Smite Brook LUTTERWORTH RD PUMPING STATION 2 12 100
Severn Trent Water Wem Brook CHAPEL STREET 6 0 93.9
Severn Trent Water Wem Brook BEDWORTH ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon LONG LAWFORD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon WOOD STREET - KIMBERLEY ROAD 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

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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