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Rugby - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,056 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 627 hours , potential overflows 80 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Rugby so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

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 - 331 hours , 80 potential
Feb - 534 hours , 38 offline
Mar - 32 hours
Apr - 0 hours , 147 offline
May - 10 hours
Jun - 3 hours
Jul - 0 hours , 18 offline
Aug - 30 hours , 36 offline
Sept - 80 hours , 36 offline
Oct - 32 hours , 1 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Severn Trent Water HARBOROUGH MAGNA (STW) SSTO River Swift 18 228h 24m 123 h
Severn Trent Water BULKINGTON STW (SSTO) Wem Brook 29 160h 2m -
Severn Trent Water RUGBY NEWBOLD (STW) River Avon 19 144h 46m -
Severn Trent Water HILLMORTON - THE KENT (CSO) Hillmorton Paddox Brook 18 139h 30m -
Severn Trent Water BRAMCOTE - ANKER BRIDGE (CSO) River Anker 13 105h 150 h
Severn Trent Water CHURCH LAWFORD STW INLET (CSO) River Avon 6 82h 25m -
Severn Trent Water HARBOROUGH MAGNA STW (CSO) Little Lawford Brook 36 65h 32m -
Severn Trent Water BEDWORTH - MARSTON LANE STW (SSTO) Wem Brook 8 56h 55m 42 h
Severn Trent Water RUGBY - HUNTERS LANE (AVON MILL) (CSO) River Avon 3 29h 14m 73 h
Severn Trent Water BEDWORTH - MARSTON LANE STW (CSO) Wem Brook 5 24h 42m -
Severn Trent Water BULKINGTON - FINDON CLOSE (SSO) River Anker 4 9h 12m 27 h
Severn Trent Water SHILTON - SHILTON LANE BRICKYARD (SSO) Laughton Drain 3 8h 25m -
Severn Trent Water RUGBY NEWBOLD (STW) River Avon 1 1h 7m -
Severn Trent Water CHAPEL STREET (CSO) Wem Brook 2 0h 41m -
Severn Trent Water BRINKLOW - COVENTRY ROAD (CSO) Smite Brook 1 0h 4m 177 h
Severn Trent Water SHILTON - SHILTON LANE BRICKYARD (SSO) Laughton Drain 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water RUGBY NEWBOLD (STW) River Avon 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HILLMORTON - THE KENT (CSO) Hillmorton Paddox Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water RUGBY - HUNTERS LANE (AVON MILL) (CSO) River Avon 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water NEWBOLD - AVON LANE (HANDS INLET) (CSO) River Avon 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BULKINGTON - BEDWORTH ROAD (CSO) Wem Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water RUGBY - WOOD STREET (CSO) River Avon 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water NEWBOLD - AVON LANE (HANDS INLET) (CSO) River Avon 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CHURCH LAWFORD STW INLET (CSO) River Avon 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water RUGBY - WOOD STREET (CSO) River Avon 0 0h 113 h
Severn Trent Water BRINKLOW - LUTTERWORTH ROAD (SSO) River Smite 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HARBOROUGH MAGNA (STW) SSTO River Swift 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CHAPEL STREET (CSO) Wem Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BEDWORTH - MARSTON LANE STW (CSO) Wem Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water EASENHALL - RUGBY ROAD (SSO) Kings Newnham Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HARBOROUGH MAGNA STW (CSO) Little Lawford Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BULKINGTON - FINDON CLOSE (SSO) River Anker 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LONG LAWFORD STORM PS 3DWF (SSTO) River Avon 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BRINKLOW - LUTTERWORTH ROAD (SSO) River Smite 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water EASENHALL - RUGBY ROAD (SSO) Kings Newnham Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BRINKLOW - COVENTRY ROAD (CSO) Smite Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BEDWORTH - MARSTON LANE STW (SSTO) Wem Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BULKINGTON STW (SSTO) Wem Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BRAMCOTE - ANKER BRIDGE (CSO) River Anker 0 0h -

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.