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Stafford

Polluted by sewage 163 times in 2025 lasting 1,089 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Stafford in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,266 hours of sewage overflows, from 33 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Stafford in 2025

7 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
163 sewage dumps
1,089 hours duration
That's 1.51 months. 3.1 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Stafford 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 13 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. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Sow ECCLESHALL & STURBRIDGE STW 46 616 100
Severn Trent Water Chatcull Brook ASHLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 71 288 100
Severn Trent Water Loggerheads Brook LOGGERHEADS VILLAGE STW 22 172 100
Severn Trent Water Lonco Brook WOODSEAVES SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 16 6 100
Severn Trent Water Meece Brook NORTON BRIDGE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORK 4 3 95.8
Severn Trent Water Silkmore Drain SILKMORE LANE SPS 1 1 99.9
Severn Trent Water Wood Brook NORBURY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 3 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Snow Via C. Flash / T.D. CRESWELL MANOR FARM SPS 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Derrington Brook DERRINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 0 0 77.7
Severn Trent Water River Meese FORTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 0 0 0
Severn Trent Water River Sow GREAT BRIDGEFORD SPS 0 0 99
Severn Trent Water Doxey Brook HAUGHTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 0 0 84.8
Severn Trent Water River Tern PRICE CLOSE 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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