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Overseal and Castle Gresley

Polluted by sewage 224 times in 2025 lasting 1,135 hours

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Totals for Overseal and Castle Gresley in 2025

9 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
224 sewage dumps
1,135 hours duration
That's 1.58 months. 4.3 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

Constituency for Overseal and Castle Gresley

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Overseal and Castle Gresley 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 Mease OVERSEAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 50 377 100
Severn Trent Water Hooborough Brook MOIRA 40 206 100
Severn Trent Water Hooborough Brook DONISTHORPE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 21 204 100
Severn Trent Water River Trent STANTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 35 144 100
Severn Trent Water Hooborough Brook MOIRA ROAD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 34 107 99.6
Severn Trent Water Darklands Brook HOSPITAL LANE STORM OVERFLOW 28 69 100
Severn Trent Water Castle Gresley Brook CAPPY FARM PUMPING STATION 9 24 99.9
Severn Trent Water Castle Gresley Brook CASTLE GRESLEY BURTON RD (BONAS)SPS 1 1 100
Severn Trent Water Darklands Brk River Trent COTON PARK WWTW 6 0 100
Severn Trent Water Hooborough Brook SHORTHEATH PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Stanton Brook BURTON ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 94.3

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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