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Staffordshire Moorlands - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,065 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 1,470 hours , potential overflows 15 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 - 45 hours , 42 offline
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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 34 621 h 18m 42 h
Severn Trent Water WINKHILL (CSO) River Hamps 23 356 h 17m -
Severn Trent Water ENDON STW (SSTO Endon Brook 39 225 h 49m 67 h
Severn Trent Water KINGSLEY HOLT - SHAWE PARK ROAD (CSO) Mobberley Brook 19 156 h 55m -
Severn Trent Water FROGHALL STW (CSO) River Churnet 29 101 h 55m 27 h
United Utilities BIDDULPH WwTW Biddulph Brook 22 88 h 11m -
United Utilities Whitemore PS Biddulph Brook, Rvr Dane 16 65 h 26m -
Severn Trent Water ALTON STW (SSTO) River Churnet 7 63 h 6m -
United Utilities BIDDULPH WwTW Biddulph Brook 29 61 h 20m 12 h
Severn Trent Water WATERHOUSES STW (SSTO) Groundwater 7 57 h 59m 4 h
Severn Trent Water BROOKHOUSES - BROOKHOUSE WAY (CSO) River Tean 9 49 h 45m -
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - TEAN ROAD (CSO) Cecilly Brook 16 42 h 2m 24 h
Severn Trent Water WARSLOW STW (SSTO) Warslow Brook 2 35 h 45m 9 h
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - QUEEN STREET/OAKAMOOR RD (CSO) Cecilly Brook 18 32 h 2m 26 h
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON (STW) River Churnet 4 17 h 31m 109 h
Severn Trent Water WERRINGTON - CLOUGH LANE (CSO) River Trent 5 14 h 10m 88 h
Severn Trent Water LEEK - MACCLESFIELD ROAD (CSO) River Churnet 15 13 h 52m 235 h
Severn Trent Water IPSTONES PS (CSO) Ipstones Brook 8 12 h 9m -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - NORTH STREET (CSO) River Churnet 13 11 h 25m 34 h
Severn Trent Water TITTESWORTH (SSO) River Churnet 3 9 h 22m -
United Utilities O/S 57 WOODHOUSE LANE CSO Biddulph Brook 5 5 h 20m -
Severn Trent Water OAKAMOOR - CHURCH BANK (CSO) River Churnet 2 4 h 51m 108 h
Severn Trent Water LEEK - JUNCTION RD (OLD STN YARD) (CSO) River Churnet 7 4 h 11m -
United Utilities Forge Mill PS Biddulph Brook 3 2 h 55m -
Severn Trent Water LEEK STW (SSTO) River Churnet 2 2 h 47m 25 h
Severn Trent Water KNYPERSLEY - TUNSTALL ROAD (CSO) River Trent 1 2 h 21m 97 h
Severn Trent Water ALTON - SALTERSFORD LANE (CSO) River Churnet 7 2 h 19m 83 h
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON HEATH - SPICERSTONE (CSO) River Churnet 3 1 h 59m 25 h
United Utilities West Street CSO Biddulph Brook 1 1 h 42m -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - VICARAGE ROAD X (CSO) River Churnet 1 0 h 25m 108 h
United Utilities BIDDULPH WwTW Biddulph Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - QUEEN STREET/OAKAMOOR RD (CSO) Cecilly Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities West Street CSO Biddulph Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities Halls Road CSO Gillow Shaw, Biddulph Brk 0 0 h 3 h
Severn Trent Water IPSTONES PS (CSO) Ipstones Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water ALTON - SALTERSFORD LANE (CSO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water KINGSLEY HOLT - SHAWE PARK ROAD (CSO) Mobberley Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water IPSTONES - BROOKFIELDS ROAD (CSO) Blackbank Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water BROOKHOUSES - BROOKHOUSE WAY (CSO) River Tean 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water WERRINGTON - CLOUGH LANE (CSO) River Trent 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water WINKHILL (CSO) River Hamps 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water BIDDULPH - BROWN LEES ROAD (CSO) River Trent 0 0 h 108 h
United Utilities Forge Mill PS Biddulph Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water ALTON STW (SSTO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
United Utilities Halls Road CSO Gillow Shaw, Biddulph Brk 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water LEEK STW (SSTO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water WATERHOUSES - A523 (SSO) River Hamps 0 0 h -
United Utilities Whitemore PS Biddulph Brook, Rvr Dane 0 0 h -
United Utilities BIDDULPH WwTW Biddulph Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water TITTESWORTH (SSO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water WARSLOW STW (SSTO) Warslow Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - NORTH STREET (CSO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water ALTON- NEW ROAD (STATION BANK) (CSO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - JUNCTION RD (OLD STN YARD) (CSO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON - STATION ROAD (CSO) River Churnet 0 0 h 108 h
Severn Trent Water ENDON STW (SSTO Endon Brook 0 0 h -
United Utilities Whitegates pumping station (41004) (STA0099) Biddulph Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water IPSTONES - BROOKFIELDS ROAD (CSO) Blackbank Brook 0 0 h 108 h
Severn Trent Water LEEK - VICARAGE ROAD X (CSO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water FROGHALL STW (SSTO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water OAKAMOOR - CHURCH BANK (CSO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON - STATION ROAD (CSO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
United Utilities Whitegates pumping station (41004) (STA0099) Biddulph Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - MACCLESFIELD ROAD (CSO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
United Utilities O/S 57 WOODHOUSE LANE CSO Biddulph Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - TEAN ROAD (CSO) Cecilly Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON (STW) River Churnet 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water ALTON- NEW ROAD (STATION BANK) (CSO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water KNYPERSLEY - TUNSTALL ROAD (CSO) River Trent 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water FROGHALL STW (CSO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON HEATH - SPICERSTONE (CSO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water BIDDULPH - BROWN LEES ROAD (CSO) River Trent 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - BEDBROOK FARM (SSO) River Perry 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water WATERHOUSES - A523 (SSO) River Hamps 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water WATERHOUSES STW (SSTO) Groundwater 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - BEDBROOK FARM (SSO) River Perry 0 0 h 26 h

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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