Tamworth was polluted by sewage 261 times in 2024
lasting 1,172 hours

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✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023

Live data for Tamworth in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:00 PM) there has been 131 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Tamworth in 2024

12 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water

261 sewage dumps
1,172 h duration

That's 1.63 months. 5 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Tamworth

Daily Data

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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Pollution Summary 2024

Here 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 0 of the total 15 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

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

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. 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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