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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Tamworth 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 | Bourne Brook | SHENSTONE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS | 14 | 75 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | CSO AT LICHFIELD ROAD SPS | 9 | 49 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | TAMWORTH SWAGE PUMPING STATION | 8 | 47 | 99.9 |
| Severn Trent Water | Footherley Brook | LITTLE ASTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS | 14 | 46 | 98.9 |
| Severn Trent Water | Gallows Brook | DRAYTON BASSETT - SALTS LANE SPS | 4 | 27 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | TWO GATES-MOUNT PLEASANT CSO | 9 | 25 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Fisherwick Brook | CSO AT WHITTINGTON SPS | 4 | 7 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Footherley Brook | STREETLY - CHESTER ROAD CSO | 7 | 7 | 98.9 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Anker | NEW STREET CSO | 10 | 6 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | CANALSIDE SCH LANE/LUDGATE ROAD CSO | 13 | 5 | 95.3 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | HEDGING LANE CSO | 6 | 4 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Anker | GLASCOTE ROAD CSO | 19 | 4 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Kettle Brook | WILNECOTE / WATLING STREET CSO | 2 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | ELFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS | 0 | 0 | 99.4 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | HIGH STREET (DOSTHILL) CSO | 0 | 0 | 84.4 |
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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