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Matlock

Polluted by sewage 513 times in 2025 lasting 2,408 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Matlock in 2025

19 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
513 sewage dumps
2,408 hours duration
That's 3.34 months. On average 1.4 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Matlock 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. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Derwent MATLOCK BATH - DALE ROAD (COAL ME- 118 976 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DARLEY DALE NO 11 CSO 84 803 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Derwent OKER-SNITTERTON-SNITTERTON ROAD SPS 21 110 100
Severn Trent Water Bentley Brook STONEY WAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 32 102 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent RAILWAY BRIDGE/DALE ROAD CSO 23 86 98.8
Severn Trent Water River Derwent DALE RD SOUTH-OFF OLD HACKNEY LANE 25 70 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent MATLOCK MH79 UDC - IMPERIAL ROAD CS 37 52 100
Severn Trent Water Bentley Brook WEBSTERS TERRACE CSO 22 50 99.5
Severn Trent Water Bentley Brook TANSLEY OLD COACH ROAD (POND) CSO 13 47 99.3
Severn Trent Water River Derwent LIME GROVE WALK/BANK ROAD PO CSO 61 33 100
Severn Trent Water Bentley Brook TANSLEY OLD COACH ROAD CSO 23 21 99.8
Severn Trent Water Bentley Brook MATLOCK-KNOWLESTON PLACE SPS 11 15 100
Severn Trent Water Warney Brook TWO DALES - CHESTERFIELD RD CSO 15 14 99.8
Severn Trent Water Warney Brook TWO DALES GARAGE CSO 7 13 100
Severn Trent Water Bentley Brook MATLOCK GREEN_MORNINGTON RISE CSO 7 7 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent BANK ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 4 1 100
Severn Trent Water Warney Brook TWO DALES - GREENWAY/ODDFORD LN CSO 6 0 100
Severn Trent Water Warney Brook TWO DALES - CHESTERFIELD ROAD CSO 3 0 99.5
Severn Trent Water Bentley Brook MATLOCK GREEN/LIME TREE RD CSO 1 0 99.3
Severn Trent Water River Derwent BAKEWELL ROAD / DIMPLE ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Derwent MH NR STARKHOLMES FOOTBRIDGE 0 0 0
Severn Trent Water River Derwent SEWER MH WOODEND LEA ROAD 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. 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.

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