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Burton upon Trent

Polluted by sewage 287 times in 2025 lasting 704 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Burton upon Trent in 2025

16 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
287 sewage dumps
704 hours duration
That's 4.19 weeks. 5.5 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Burton upon Trent 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 place 2 of the total 19 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. Of these 2 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Trent CLAYMILLS SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 24 205 98.5
Severn Trent Water River Trent STANTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 35 144 100
Severn Trent Water Darklands Brook HOSPITAL LANE STORM OVERFLOW 28 69 100
Severn Trent Water Trent And Mersey Canal WYGGESTON ST 316 CSO 50 49 96.4
Severn Trent Water River Trent HORNINGLOW ROAD 49 CSO 26 39 99.9
Severn Trent Water Station Road Brook SHOBNALL ROAD CSO 15 32 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent STATION ST/HIGH ST JUNCTION SSO 6 29 100
Severn Trent Water Dale Brook WHEATLEY LANE CSO 36 27 99
Severn Trent Water River Trent MAYFIELD ROAD CSO 27 23 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent NEW STREET CSO 6 20 99
Severn Trent Water River Trent ROLLESTON ROAD CSO 12 20 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent SCALPCLIFFE ROAD STORM OVERFLOW 7 19 97.3
Severn Trent Water River Trent SHOBNALL STREET 212 CSO 7 11 100
Severn Trent Water Kittling Greaves Brook TUTBURY ROAD STORM OVERLFOW 3 9 99.1
Severn Trent Water River Trent THE DINGLE CSO 3 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent FERRY ST/FREDERICK ST JUNCTION CSO 2 0 66.7
Severn Trent Water River Trent ANGLESEY ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent ASHBY RD/STAPENHILL RD JCN SSO 0 0 0
Severn Trent Water River Trent SCALPCLIFFE RD/ROSEMOUNT RD JCN CSO 0 0 0

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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