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Staffordshire Moorlands - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,622 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 1,701 hours , potential overflows 21 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Staffordshire Moorlands 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 - 651 hours , 12 potential
Feb - 1,368 hours , 3 potential
Mar - 157 hours , 1 potential
Apr - 6 hours , 3 offline
May - 42 hours , 1 potential
Jun - 104 hours , 27 offline
Jul - 0 hours , 42 offline
Aug - 222 hours , 1 potential
Sept - 69 hours , 1 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Severn Trent Water FROGHALL STW (SSTO) River Churnet 50 786h 2m 42 h
Severn Trent Water WINKHILL (CSO) River Hamps 23 356h 17m -
Severn Trent Water ENDON STW (SSTO Endon Brook 48 257h 31m 67 h
Severn Trent Water ALTON STW (SSTO) River Churnet 19 182h 16m 42 h
Severn Trent Water KINGSLEY HOLT - SHAWE PARK ROAD (CSO) Mobberley Brook 31 178h 58m 31 h
Severn Trent Water FROGHALL STW (CSO) River Churnet 59 149h 46m 27 h
United Utilities BIDDULPH WwTW Biddulph Brook 31 115h 17m 0 h
United Utilities BIDDULPH WwTW Biddulph Brook 46 85h 20m 28 h
United Utilities Whitemore PS Biddulph Brook, Rvr Dane 28 75h 14m -
Severn Trent Water BROOKHOUSES - BROOKHOUSE WAY (CSO) River Tean 16 62h 36m -
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - TEAN ROAD (CSO) Cecilly Brook 30 60h 48m 72 h
Severn Trent Water WATERHOUSES STW (SSTO) Groundwater 7 57h 59m 8 h
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - QUEEN STREET/OAKAMOOR RD (CSO) Cecilly Brook 36 49h 4m 26 h
Severn Trent Water WARSLOW STW (SSTO) Warslow Brook 7 39h 7m 9 h
Severn Trent Water LEEK - MACCLESFIELD ROAD (CSO) River Churnet 24 21h 36m 235 h
Severn Trent Water LEEK - NORTH STREET (CSO) River Churnet 25 20h 14m 34 h
Severn Trent Water WERRINGTON - CLOUGH LANE (CSO) River Trent 12 20h 3m 88 h
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON (STW) River Churnet 6 19h 32m 109 h
Severn Trent Water IPSTONES PS (CSO) Ipstones Brook 18 18h 31m -
United Utilities O/S 57 WOODHOUSE LANE CSO Biddulph Brook 10 10h 52m -
United Utilities Forge Mill PS Biddulph Brook 7 9h 23m -
Severn Trent Water TITTESWORTH (SSO) River Churnet 3 9h 22m -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - JUNCTION RD (OLD STN YARD) (CSO) River Churnet 12 7h 25m -
Severn Trent Water LEEK STW (SSTO) River Churnet 5 5h 42m 25 h
Severn Trent Water KNYPERSLEY - TUNSTALL ROAD (CSO) River Trent 6 5h 38m 97 h
Severn Trent Water OAKAMOOR - CHURCH BANK (CSO) River Churnet 5 5h 32m 108 h
United Utilities West Street CSO Biddulph Brook 6 4h 48m -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON HEATH - SPICERSTONE (CSO) River Churnet 10 3h 51m 71 h
Severn Trent Water ALTON - SALTERSFORD LANE (CSO) River Churnet 7 2h 19m 103 h
Severn Trent Water LEEK - VICARAGE ROAD X (CSO) River Churnet 2 0h 31m 108 h
Severn Trent Water ALTON- NEW ROAD (STATION BANK) (CSO) River Churnet 1 0h 14m -
United Utilities Whitegates pumping station (41004) (STA0099) Biddulph Brook 1 0h 10m -
Severn Trent Water IPSTONES - BROOKFIELDS ROAD (CSO) Blackbank Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water WINKHILL (CSO) River Hamps 0 0h -
United Utilities West Street CSO Biddulph Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - JUNCTION RD (OLD STN YARD) (CSO) River Churnet 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BIDDULPH - BROWN LEES ROAD (CSO) River Trent 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water ENDON STW (SSTO Endon Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water WATERHOUSES STW (SSTO) Groundwater 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON HEATH - SPICERSTONE (CSO) River Churnet 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water ALTON- NEW ROAD (STATION BANK) (CSO) River Churnet 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water ALTON STW (SSTO) River Churnet 0 0h -
United Utilities Whitemore PS Biddulph Brook, Rvr Dane 0 0h -
United Utilities O/S 57 WOODHOUSE LANE CSO Biddulph Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - MACCLESFIELD ROAD (CSO) River Churnet 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water WARSLOW STW (SSTO) Warslow Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water WATERHOUSES - A523 (SSO) River Hamps 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BROOKHOUSES - BROOKHOUSE WAY (CSO) River Tean 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water WERRINGTON - CLOUGH LANE (CSO) River Trent 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water ALTON - SALTERSFORD LANE (CSO) River Churnet 0 0h -
United Utilities BIDDULPH WwTW Biddulph Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - VICARAGE ROAD X (CSO) River Churnet 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - BEDBROOK FARM (SSO) River Perry 0 0h -
United Utilities Whitegates pumping station (41004) (STA0099) Biddulph Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water WATERHOUSES - A523 (SSO) River Hamps 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON (STW) River Churnet 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - BEDBROOK FARM (SSO) River Perry 0 0h 53 h
Severn Trent Water KINGSLEY HOLT - SHAWE PARK ROAD (CSO) Mobberley Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BIDDULPH - BROWN LEES ROAD (CSO) River Trent 0 0h 108 h
United Utilities Halls Road CSO Gillow Shaw, Biddulph Brk 0 0h 6 h
Severn Trent Water IPSTONES PS (CSO) Ipstones Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water IPSTONES - BROOKFIELDS ROAD (CSO) Blackbank Brook 0 0h 108 h
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON - STATION ROAD (CSO) River Churnet 0 0h 108 h
United Utilities Halls Road CSO Gillow Shaw, Biddulph Brk 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water FROGHALL STW (SSTO) River Churnet 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - QUEEN STREET/OAKAMOOR RD (CSO) Cecilly Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON - STATION ROAD (CSO) River Churnet 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water TITTESWORTH (SSO) River Churnet 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LEEK STW (SSTO) River Churnet 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - NORTH STREET (CSO) River Churnet 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water KNYPERSLEY - TUNSTALL ROAD (CSO) River Trent 0 0h -
United Utilities BIDDULPH WwTW Biddulph Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - TEAN ROAD (CSO) Cecilly Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water FROGHALL STW (CSO) River Churnet 0 0h -
United Utilities Forge Mill PS Biddulph Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water OAKAMOOR - CHURCH BANK (CSO) River Churnet 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.