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South Derbyshire

Polluted by sewage 715 times in 2025 lasting 3,896 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for South Derbyshire in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 7,314 hours of sewage overflows, from 82 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for South Derbyshire in 2025

27 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
715 sewage dumps
3,896 hours duration
That's 5.41 months. On average 2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Derbyshire 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 1 of the total 29 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Trent MILTON WASTE WATER TREATMENT WORKS 76 805 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent NEWTON SOLNEY (EAST) SPS 69 636 95.6
Severn Trent Water River Mease OVERSEAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 50 377 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent NEWTON SOLNEY (WEST) SPS 27 366 100
Severn Trent Water Twyford Brook FINDERN STW 34 218 47.85
Severn Trent Water Pessall Brook PUMPING STATION 27 183 99.9
Severn Trent Water Repton Brook HARTSHONE - BUGLEY HOLE CSO 51 166 97.8
Severn Trent Water Etwall Brook ETWALL STW 32 156 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Trent STANTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 35 144 100
Severn Trent Water Trent And Mersey Canal SHARDLOW STW 17 139 99.5
Severn Trent Water Scots Brook TICKNALL SPS 53 132 100
Severn Trent Water Hooborough Brook MOIRA ROAD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 34 107 99.6
Severn Trent Water Darklands Brook HOSPITAL LANE STORM OVERFLOW 28 69 100
Severn Trent Water Darklands Brook ROSLISTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 43 60 99.3
Severn Trent Water Repton Brook REPTON SWS - STORM/EMERGENCY O/F 10 59 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Mease NETHERSEAL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 8 58 98.9
Severn Trent Water Warren Hill Brook LINTON SOUTH 17 46 93.6
Severn Trent Water Ramsley Brook KINGS NEWTON - MAIN STREET CSO 30 43 97.4
Severn Trent Water Dale Brook WHEATLEY LANE CSO 36 27 99
Severn Trent Water Repton Brook WOODVILLE - BROOMY FURLONG CSO 6 24 99.5
Severn Trent Water Castle Gresley Brook CAPPY FARM PUMPING STATION 9 24 99.9
Severn Trent Water Scots Brook TICKNALL STW 3 18 100
Severn Trent Water Carr Brook LILYPOOL CSO 5 13 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent WALTON PUMPING STATION 5 9 100
Severn Trent Water Doles Brook COMMON PIECE LANE CSO 3 2 98.1
Severn Trent Water Castle Gresley Brook CASTLE GRESLEY BURTON RD (BONAS)SPS 1 1 100
Severn Trent Water Darklands Brk River Trent COTON PARK WWTW 6 0 100
Severn Trent Water Stanton Brook BURTON ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 94.3
Severn Trent Water River Trent WILLINGTON SEWAGE PUMPING STN 0 0 99.7

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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