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Stoke-on-Trent Central

Polluted by sewage 564 times in 2025 lasting 1,014 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Stoke-on-Trent Central in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 376 hours of sewage overflows, from 103 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Stoke-on-Trent Central in 2025

40 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
564 sewage dumps
1,014 hours duration
That's 1.41 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Stoke-on-Trent Central 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 44 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.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Trent BIRCHES HEAD ROAD CSO 39 337 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent DIVIDY ROAD / JOINERS SQUARE CSO 44 156 99.7
Severn Trent Water Unknown WERRINGTON ROAD CSO 35 84 100
Severn Trent Water Fowlea Brook BURSLEM STW CSO 14 58 100
Severn Trent Water Fowlea Brook ETRURIA VALE 1 CSO 26 50 99.6
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook HARTSHILL - RISELEY ROAD CSO 31 42 100
Severn Trent Water Fowlea Brook BEECHS GARAGE CSO 19 41 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent LEEK ROAD CSO 16 37 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent CHAMBERLAIN AVENUE CSO 36 21 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Trent BOOTHEN OLD ROAD 1 CSO 14 19 100
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook HILTON ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 28 19 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent MICHELIN A34 CSO 17 17 100
Severn Trent Water Caldon Canal NORTHWOOD PRIME ST-CARDWELL ST CSO 21 17 34.1
Severn Trent Water River Trent CAULDON ROAD CSO 21 16 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Trent JOINERS SQUARE CSO 5 10 100
Severn Trent Water Sws To River Trent IVY HOUSE ROAD CSO 22 8 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent GREASLEY ROAD 2 CSO 17 8 100
Severn Trent Water Sws To River Trent LEEK ROAD / BOTTESLOW STREET CSO 20 8 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent WILLIAM STREET CSO 11 8 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent GREASLEY ROAD 1 CSO 12 7 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent PENKHULL NEW ROAD CSO 10 7 99
Severn Trent Water Anchor Brook AMISON STREET 18 5 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent BOOTHEN OLD ROAD 2 CSO 7 4 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent SIDEWAY ROAD CSO 7 4 100
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook HARPFIELD ROAD CSO 8 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent SMITHPOOL ROAD CSO 6 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent AUSTIN STREET SPS 4 2 99.9
Severn Trent Water Anchor Brook BATHS ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 6 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent LICHFIELD STREET/LEEK ROAD 7 1 100
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook NEWCASTLE ROAD - A34 CSO 6 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent GREASLEY ROAD 3 CSO 8 1 100
Severn Trent Water Cockster Brook GRAFTON ROAD CSO 5 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent BOUGHEY ROAD CSO 4 0 92.3
Severn Trent Water Fowlea Brook SHELTON NEW ROAD CSO 4 0 98.8
Severn Trent Water River Trent VICTORIA ROAD SEWAGE PUMPING STA 2 0 99.5
Severn Trent Water Caldon Canal ROSE STREET CSO 5 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent WOLSELEY ROAD CSO 5 0 98.3
Severn Trent Water Causley Brook WOOLISCROFT ROAD CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water Caldon Canal PRIME STREET (NO.1)/LOCKLEY ST CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent STUART ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent BERRY HILL 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Cockster Brook BROCKSFORD STREET CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Lyme Brook LYME VALLEY (OPPO REMPLOY WKS) CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Fowlea Brook QUEENSWAY/VERNON ROAD SPS 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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