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Stoke-on-Trent South

Polluted by sewage 368 times in 2025 lasting 1,409 hours

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Live data for Stoke-on-Trent South in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 452 hours of sewage overflows, from 78 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Stoke-on-Trent South in 2025

30 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
368 sewage dumps
1,409 hours duration
That's 1.96 months. On average 1 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 South 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water Yockerton Brook STRONGFORD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 57 520 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent TRENT VALE SPS 31 286 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent BARLASTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 43 223 100
Severn Trent Water River Tean CHECKLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 35 198 99.4
Severn Trent Water River Trent TITTENSOR COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 27 34 99.2
Severn Trent Water Longton Brook OFF BLURTON ROAD CSO 31 26 100
Severn Trent Water River Tean CHECKLEY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 7 20 100
Severn Trent Water River Blithe POPLAR CLOSE CSO 6 17 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Tean CROSS KEYS STORM CSO 13 15 97.8
Severn Trent Water Longton Brook TRENTHAM - STONE ROAD 1 CSO 5 14 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent BARLASTON OLD ROAD CSO 27 7 99.2
Severn Trent Water Longton Brook GOODWOOD PLACE CSO 9 7 100
Severn Trent Water Trent And Mersey Canal EAST OF RAILWAY LINE CSO 4 6 100
Severn Trent Water Longton Brook GOMS MILL CSO 11 6 100
Severn Trent Water Chitlings Brook POPLAR DRIVE CSO 3 4 100
Severn Trent Water Culverted Watercourse SUTHERLAND ROAD CSO 9 4 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent HANFORD A34 PUMPING STATION 4 4 100
Severn Trent Water Anchor Brook BATH ROAD 2 CSO 6 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Blithe STALLINGTON ROAD CSO 5 2 100
Severn Trent Water Longton Brook Via Sws CARLISLE STREET CSO 8 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent WHITMORE ROAD CSO 5 0 100
Severn Trent Water Anchor Brook KENDRICK STREET CSO 2 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water Longton Brook WERBURGH DRIVE CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Longton Brook CHAPLIN ROAD NO.1 CSO 4 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent STONE ROAD/BANKHOUSE ROAD JNCT CSO 5 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Blithe STALLINGTON LANE 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water Anchor Brook ANCHOR ROAD CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water Anchor Brook UTTOXETER ROAD CSO 3 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water Anchor Brook FOLEY ROAD CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water Longton Brook CHAPLIN ROAD NO.2 CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Longton Brook BALLINSON ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Longton Brook LIGHTWOOD ROAD 0 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Trent MEAFORD SPS 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Scotch Brook OULTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 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.

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