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Newcastle-under-Lyme

Polluted by sewage 461 times in 2025 lasting 986 hours

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Totals for Newcastle-under-Lyme in 2025

29 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water

461 sewage dumps

986 hours duration

That's 1.37 months. On average 1.3 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 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	River Trent	TRENT VALE SPS	31	286	100
Severn Trent Water	Fowlea Brook	ORFORD STREET CSO	40	165	100
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	SILVERDALE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	52	115	91
Severn Trent Water	Fowlea Brook	BURSLEM STW CSO	14	58	100
Severn Trent Water	Fowlea Brook	ETRURIA VALE 1 CSO	26	50	99.6
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	ST MICHAELS ROAD CSO	38	42	100
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	HARTSHILL - RISELEY ROAD CSO	31	42	100
Severn Trent Water	Fowlea Brook	BEECHS GARAGE CSO	19	41	100
Severn Trent Water	Fowlea Brook	LOWER OXFORD ROAD CSO	9	38	100
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	CLAYTON ROAD CSO	23	34	100
Severn Trent Water	Park Brook	CLAYTON RD SPS STOKE ON TRENT	6	28	99.5
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	STAFFORD AVENUE CSO	11	23	100
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	HILTON ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	28	19	100
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	KING STREET CSO	19	7	100
Severn Trent Water	Ashfield Brook	LAXLEY ROAD - ALBEMARIE ROAD CSO	18	6	98.4
Severn Trent Water	Ashfeild Brook	BRYMBO ROAD CSO	11	4	100
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	DARTMOUTH AVENUE CSO	12	3	100
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	HARPFIELD ROAD CSO	8	2	100
Severn Trent Water	Fowlea Brook	ASDA - OXFORD STREET CSO	15	2	100
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	PILKINGTON AVENUE CSO	8	2	100
Severn Trent Water	Lyme/Silverdale Brook	SILVERDALE-SILVERDALE ROAD 389 CSO	9	2	100
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	LILLESHALL ROAD PLAYING FIELDS CSO	3	1	100
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	THE HIGHERLAND SOUTH CSO	7	1	99.9
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	NEWCASTLE ROAD - A34 CSO	6	1	100
Severn Trent Water	Fowlea Brook	SHELTON NEW ROAD CSO	4	0	98.8
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	HASSELL STREET CSO	5	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Fowlea Brook	LONGPORT STATION ROAD CSO	1	0	100
Severn Trent Water	River Trent	STONE ROAD/BANKHOUSE ROAD JNCT CSO	5	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Fowlea Brook	WATLANDS VIEW CSO	2	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Lyme/ Silverdale Brook	EJECTOR STATION AT APEDALE	0	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Fowlea Brook Via Sws	ETRURIA ROAD CSO	0	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Fowlea Brook	GARNER STREET CSO	0	0	94.1
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	LOOMER ROAD SPS	0	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	NO. 159 THE AVENUE CSO	0	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	THE HIGHERLAND NORTH CSO	0	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Lyme Brook	LYME VALLEY (OPPO REMPLOY WKS) CSO	0	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Fowlea Brook	CANAL LANE CSO	0	0	99.1

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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