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Polluted by sewage 261 times in 2024 lasting 1,172 hours
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
So far this year (as of May 8, 2025, 7:00 AM) there has been 131 hours of sewage overflows
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Tamworth, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Tamworth in 2024. 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 15 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Severn Trent Water | Bourne Brook | SHENSTONE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS | 68 | 512 | 99.45 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | CSO AT LICHFIELD ROAD SPS | 41 | 384 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | TAMWORTH SWAGE PUMPING STATION | 18 | 75 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Footherley Brook | LITTLE ASTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS | 20 | 60 | 99.7 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | TWO GATES-MOUNT PLEASANT CSO | 24 | 59 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Gallows Brook | DRAYTON BASSETT - SALTS LANE SPS | 6 | 30 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Anker | GLASCOTE ROAD CSO | 32 | 16 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | CANALSIDE SCH LANE/LUDGATE ROAD CSO | 21 | 10 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Anker | NEW STREET CSO | 12 | 9 | 96.7 |
| Severn Trent Water | Fisherwick Brook | CSO AT WHITTINGTON SPS | 7 | 7 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | HEDGING LANE CSO | 11 | 4 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | ELFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | HIGH STREET (DOSTHILL) CSO | 0 | 0 | 46 |
| Severn Trent Water | Kettle Brook | WILNECOTE / WATLING STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Footherley Brook | EASTERN AREA SEWERAGE SCHEME | 0 | 0 | 100 |
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. This 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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