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Staffordshire Moorlands - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 8,584 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 4,695 hours , potential overflows 398 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Staffordshire Moorlands for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 1,498 hours , 232 potential
Feb - 584 hours , 139 potential
Mar - 109 hours , 613 offline
Apr - 16 hours , 168 offline
May - 98 hours , 1 potential
Jun - 9 hours , 775 offline
Jul - 69 hours , 318 offline
Aug - 15 hours , 372 offline
Sept - 585 hours , 1 potential
Oct - 571 hours , 5 potential
Nov - 2,250 hours , 5 potential
Dec - 2,750 hours , 12 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Severn Trent Water WARSLOW STW (SSTO) Warslow Brook 130 1,696 h 21m 353 h
Severn Trent Water WARSLOW STW (SSTO) Warslow Brook 49 1,051 h 18m 2 h
Severn Trent Water FROGHALL STW (SSTO) River Churnet 52 926 h 28m 208 h
United Utilities Whitemore PS Biddulph Brook, Rvr Dane 52 715 h 50m 139 h
Severn Trent Water FROGHALL STW (SSTO) River Churnet 33 666 h 21m -
Severn Trent Water ENDON STW (SSTO Endon Brook 54 522 h 52m 678 h
Severn Trent Water ENDON STW (SSTO Endon Brook 26 257 h 24m -
United Utilities Whitemore PS Biddulph Brook, Rvr Dane 20 236 h 34m -
United Utilities BIDDULPH WwTW Biddulph Brook 28 192 h 47m 2 h
Severn Trent Water WATERHOUSES STW (SSTO) Groundwater 19 169 h 41m -
United Utilities BIDDULPH WwTW Biddulph Brook 17 166 h 34m -
Severn Trent Water FROGHALL STW (CSO) River Churnet 48 133 h 55m -
Severn Trent Water WINKHILL (CSO) River Hamps 10 125 h 37m -
Severn Trent Water ALTON STW (SSTO) River Churnet 16 125 h 34m 18 h
Severn Trent Water LEEK - MACCLESFIELD ROAD (CSO) River Churnet 42 100 h 4m -
Severn Trent Water KINGSLEY HOLT - SHAWE PARK ROAD (CSO) Mobberley Brook 18 96 h 36m -
Severn Trent Water ALTON STW (SSTO) River Churnet 6 96 h 18m -
Severn Trent Water WINKHILL (CSO) River Hamps 8 93 h 42m 256 h
Severn Trent Water BROOKHOUSES - BROOKHOUSE WAY (CSO) River Tean 22 93 h 13m 7 h
Severn Trent Water KINGSLEY HOLT - SHAWE PARK ROAD (CSO) Mobberley Brook 12 84 h 21m -
United Utilities BIDDULPH WwTW Biddulph Brook 53 81 h 1m 60 h
Severn Trent Water FROGHALL STW (CSO) River Churnet 18 77 h 26m -
United Utilities Forge Mill PS Biddulph Brook 16 69 h 18m -
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - QUEEN STREET/OAKAMOOR RD (CSO) Cecilly Brook 30 63 h 21m 90 h
United Utilities BIDDULPH WwTW Biddulph Brook 18 62 h 28m 42 h
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - TEAN ROAD (CSO) Cecilly Brook 29 56 h 47m -
Severn Trent Water ALTON - SALTERSFORD LANE (CSO) River Churnet 17 50 h 43m -
United Utilities Forge Mill PS Biddulph Brook 8 50 h 12m -
Severn Trent Water WATERHOUSES STW (SSTO) Groundwater 6 46 h 53m -
Severn Trent Water LEEK STW (SSTO) River Churnet 8 33 h 39m 66 h
Severn Trent Water IPSTONES PS (CSO) Ipstones Brook 27 31 h 48m -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - MACCLESFIELD ROAD (CSO) River Churnet 12 31 h 41m 131 h
United Utilities O/S 57 WOODHOUSE LANE CSO Biddulph Brook 18 28 h 2m 1 h
Severn Trent Water LEEK - NORTH STREET (CSO) River Churnet 38 27 h 26m -
Severn Trent Water WERRINGTON - CLOUGH LANE (CSO) River Trent 16 27 h 17m 62 h
Severn Trent Water LEEK - JUNCTION RD (OLD STN YARD) (CSO) River Churnet 32 25 h 18m 18 h
Severn Trent Water TITTESWORTH (SSO) River Churnet 3 22 h 41m -
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - TEAN ROAD (CSO) Cecilly Brook 9 21 h 8m -
Severn Trent Water BROOKHOUSES - BROOKHOUSE WAY (CSO) River Tean 6 20 h 28m -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON (STW) River Churnet 7 17 h 28m 42 h
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - QUEEN STREET/OAKAMOOR RD (CSO) Cecilly Brook 7 16 h 55m -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON - STATION ROAD (CSO) River Churnet 2 16 h 18m 308 h
United Utilities O/S 57 WOODHOUSE LANE CSO Biddulph Brook 7 16 h 12m -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - VICARAGE ROAD X (CSO) River Churnet 12 14 h 33m -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON (STW) River Churnet 3 14 h 4m -
Severn Trent Water KNYPERSLEY - TUNSTALL ROAD (CSO) River Trent 8 11 h 46m -
United Utilities West Street CSO Biddulph Brook 10 10 h 44m 1,323 h
United Utilities Whitegates pumping station (41004) (STA0099) Biddulph Brook 1 10 h 8m -
Severn Trent Water WERRINGTON - CLOUGH LANE (CSO) River Trent 4 9 h 51m -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON HEATH - SPICERSTONE (CSO) River Churnet 16 9 h 35m 112 h
Severn Trent Water LEEK STW (SSTO) River Churnet 1 9 h 30m -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - NORTH STREET (CSO) River Churnet 11 9 h 3m -
Severn Trent Water ALTON- NEW ROAD (STATION BANK) (CSO) River Churnet 7 7 h 29m 310 h
Severn Trent Water IPSTONES PS (CSO) Ipstones Brook 4 5 h 50m -
Severn Trent Water OAKAMOOR - CHURCH BANK (CSO) River Churnet 11 5 h 37m 101 h
Severn Trent Water TITTESWORTH (SSO) River Churnet 4 4 h 33m 89 h
Severn Trent Water LEEK - JUNCTION RD (OLD STN YARD) (CSO) River Churnet 7 3 h 25m -
Severn Trent Water BIDDULPH - BROWN LEES ROAD (CSO) River Trent 1 2 h 16m 35 h
United Utilities Whitegates pumping station (41004) (STA0099) Biddulph Brook 3 1 h 54m -
Severn Trent Water OAKAMOOR - CHURCH BANK (CSO) River Churnet 1 1 h 54m -
Severn Trent Water KNYPERSLEY - TUNSTALL ROAD (CSO) River Trent 2 1 h 45m -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON HEATH - SPICERSTONE (CSO) River Churnet 4 1 h 36m -
United Utilities Halls Road CSO Gillow Shaw, Biddulph Brk 1 0 h 58m 10 h
Severn Trent Water ALTON - SALTERSFORD LANE (CSO) River Churnet 5 0 h 46m -
United Utilities West Street CSO Biddulph Brook 2 0 h 20m -
Severn Trent Water IPSTONES - BROOKFIELDS ROAD (CSO) Blackbank Brook 1 0 h 17m 116 h
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - BEDBROOK FARM (SSO) River Perry 1 0 h 15m -
Severn Trent Water BIDDULPH - BROWN LEES ROAD (CSO) River Trent 0 0 h -
United Utilities Halls Road CSO Gillow Shaw, Biddulph Brk 0 0 h 10 h
Severn Trent Water ALTON- NEW ROAD (STATION BANK) (CSO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water WATERHOUSES - A523 (SSO) River Hamps 0 0 h 494 h
Severn Trent Water WATERHOUSES - A523 (SSO) River Hamps 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CHEADLE - BEDBROOK FARM (SSO) River Perry 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water IPSTONES - BROOKFIELDS ROAD (CSO) Blackbank Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water CHEDDLETON - STATION ROAD (CSO) River Churnet 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water LEEK - VICARAGE ROAD X (CSO) River Churnet 0 0 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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