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Staffordshire Moorlands - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 3,016 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 1,858 hours , potential overflows 29 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 - 77 hours , 1 potential
Oct - 386 hours , 7 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 53 842h 42m 42 h
Severn Trent Water WINKHILL (CSO) River Hamps 26 382h 19m -
Severn Trent Water ENDON STW (SSTO Endon Brook 53 299h 34m 67 h
Severn Trent Water ALTON STW (SSTO) River Churnet 30 236h 45m 42 h
Severn Trent Water KINGSLEY HOLT - SHAWE PARK ROAD (CSO) Mobberley Brook 35 197h 31 h
Severn Trent Water FROGHALL STW (CSO) River Churnet 71 182h 27 h
United Utilities BIDDULPH WwTW Biddulph Brook 36 143h 33m 0 h
United Utilities BIDDULPH WwTW Biddulph Brook 56 106h 14m 41 h
Severn Trent Water WATERHOUSES STW (SSTO) Groundwater 10 80h 42m 8 h
United Utilities Whitemore PS Biddulph Brook, Rvr Dane 32 77h 39m -
Severn Trent Water BROOKHOUSES - BROOKHOUSE WAY (CSO) River Tean 19 77h 23m -
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - TEAN ROAD (CSO) Cecilly Brook 37 71h 58m 72 h
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - QUEEN STREET/OAKAMOOR RD (CSO) Cecilly Brook 43 59h 27m 26 h
Severn Trent Water WARSLOW STW (SSTO) Warslow Brook 8 40h 22m 9 h
Severn Trent Water LEEK - MACCLESFIELD ROAD (CSO) River Churnet 30 33h 44m 235 h
Severn Trent Water LEEK - NORTH STREET (CSO) River Churnet 34 25h 26m 34 h
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON (STW) River Churnet 7 24h 21m 109 h
Severn Trent Water IPSTONES PS (CSO) Ipstones Brook 23 23h 44m -
Severn Trent Water WERRINGTON - CLOUGH LANE (CSO) River Trent 14 23h 44m 89 h
Severn Trent Water LEEK STW (SSTO) River Churnet 6 14h 15m 25 h
United Utilities O/S 57 WOODHOUSE LANE CSO Biddulph Brook 12 12h 48m -
United Utilities Forge Mill PS Biddulph Brook 9 12h 27m -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - JUNCTION RD (OLD STN YARD) (CSO) River Churnet 20 9h 54m 38 h
Severn Trent Water TITTESWORTH (SSO) River Churnet 3 9h 22m -
Severn Trent Water OAKAMOOR - CHURCH BANK (CSO) River Churnet 8 7h 27m 108 h
Severn Trent Water KNYPERSLEY - TUNSTALL ROAD (CSO) River Trent 7 6h 18m 97 h
United Utilities West Street CSO Biddulph Brook 7 5h 28m -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON HEATH - SPICERSTONE (CSO) River Churnet 12 4h 20m 182 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 4 1h 7m 108 h
United Utilities Whitegates pumping station (41004) (STA0099) Biddulph Brook 2 0h 36m -
Severn Trent Water ALTON- NEW ROAD (STATION BANK) (CSO) River Churnet 2 0h 32m -
United Utilities Halls Road CSO Gillow Shaw, Biddulph Brk 1 0h 20m 6 h
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 ENDON STW (SSTO Endon Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water WATERHOUSES STW (SSTO) Groundwater 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water ALTON STW (SSTO) River Churnet 0 0h -
United Utilities Whitemore PS Biddulph Brook, Rvr Dane 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 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 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 -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON - STATION ROAD (CSO) River Churnet 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water TITTESWORTH (SSO) River Churnet 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - NORTH STREET (CSO) River Churnet 0 0h -
United Utilities BIDDULPH WwTW Biddulph Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - TEAN ROAD (CSO) Cecilly Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water IPSTONES - BROOKFIELDS ROAD (CSO) Blackbank Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water WINKHILL (CSO) River Hamps 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BIDDULPH - BROWN LEES ROAD (CSO) River Trent 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 -
United Utilities O/S 57 WOODHOUSE LANE CSO Biddulph 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 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 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
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 LEEK STW (SSTO) River Churnet 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water KNYPERSLEY - TUNSTALL ROAD (CSO) River Trent 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.