It's a Dirty Business

Watch Channel 4's documentary about the state of the water industry, then sign the petition to bring water back to public ownership.

Heanor

Polluted by sewage 326 times in 2025 lasting 852 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

© OpenStreetMap contributors
Contains OS Data © Crown copyright & database right 2021-2024
© Top of the Poops 2021-2024

Select Another Place

Select the place from the drop-down
✔ means we have live data

Totals for Heanor in 2025

16 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
326 sewage dumps
852 hours duration
That's 1.18 months. 6.3 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

Constituency for Heanor

Take Action

Your local MP is Linsey Farnsworth (Labour) - Find out more about their interests, donors, and voting at They Work For You

Share this page, post a message, and tell others about the huge problem of sewage pollution across the UK
Post
Post
We need your support!

Please consider a one-off or small recurring donation. We need your help to keep this site going.

Donate Now

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Heanor 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 1 of the total 22 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.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Erewash MILNHAY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 38 305 45.4
Severn Trent Water River Erewash CROMFORD ROAD - CSO NO 3 63 242 95.8
Severn Trent Water River Erewash LANGLEY MILL - STATION ROAD CSO 28 61 100
Severn Trent Water Bailey Brook LEE LANE CSO 45 60 98.7
Severn Trent Water Bailey Brook GREENACRES AVENUE CSO 24 41 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash EASTWOOD - MANSFIELD ROAD CSO 18 38 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash LANGLEY MILL - MILNHAY ROAD CSO 8 28 99.2
Severn Trent Water Erewash Canal CHURCH STREET STORM OVERFLOW 7 22 100
Severn Trent Water Bailey Brook HEANOR - BERLE AVENUE CSO 27 22 98.7
Severn Trent Water Bailey Brook NOTTINGHAM ROAD (IN FIELD) CSO 9 10 99.7
Severn Trent Water Nut Brook HEANOR - 58 THORPES ROAD CSO 27 7 99
Severn Trent Water Nut Brook HEANOR - PEACH STREET CSO 20 3 99.8
Severn Trent Water Nut Brook MARLPOOL PUMPING STATION SSO 3 2 99.8
Severn Trent Water Bailey Brook ROSEWOOD CRESCENT CSO 5 1 100
Severn Trent Water Bailey Brook BURNS STREET ALLOTMENT GARDENS SSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Nut Brook Canal THORPES ROAD CSO 3 0 96.7
Severn Trent Water Bailey Brook HEANOR - 143 HANDS ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Bailey Brook HEANOR - HEANOR ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash LANGLEY MILL - CROMFORD ROAD CSO 0 0 99.3
Severn Trent Water Loscoe Brook LOSCOE BROOK FARM STORM OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Bailey Brook LOSCOE ROAD/ALLANDALE ROAD CSO 0 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water Loscoe Brook LOSCOE-HIGH ST/SPRINGFIELD AVE CSO 0 0 97.7

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.

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.