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Ripley (Amber Valley)

Polluted by sewage 341 times in 2025 lasting 1,660 hours

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Totals for Ripley (Amber Valley) in 2025

15 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
341 sewage dumps
1,660 hours duration
That's 2.31 months. 6.6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Ripley (Amber Valley) 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 Bottle Brook MAREHAY STW 38 443 93.65
Severn Trent Water Hartshay Brook RIPLEY STW 47 411 79
Severn Trent Water Hartshay Brook PADLEY HALL CSO 63 215 100
Severn Trent Water Hartshay Brook TOLL ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 55 183 100
Severn Trent Water Hartshay Brook SWANWICK SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 41 165 99.6
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook APOLLO ENGINEERING SITE CSO 45 125 100
Severn Trent Water Hickton Brook HICKTON RD PUMPING STATION 28 82 99.4
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook OFF CHURCH STREET CSO 5 17 100
Severn Trent Water Bailey Brook NOTTINGHAM ROAD (IN FIELD) CSO 9 10 99.7
Severn Trent Water Bailey Brook CODNOR NOTTINGHAM ROAD CSO 1 2 99.4
Severn Trent Water Marehay Brook BROOK LANE 3 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water Bailey Brook CODNOR - JESSOP STREET 2 CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash HOLBOURN VIEW SSO AND GATEBROOK 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook RIPLEY - DERBY RD/BOWLER STREET CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water Marehay Brook DERBY ROAD 1 0 98.7
Severn Trent Water Bailey Brook GLASSHOUSE HILL CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Bailey Brook HEANOR - HEANOR ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Loscoe Brook LOSCOE BROOK FARM STORM OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Loscoe Brook LOSCOE-HIGH ST/SPRINGFIELD AVE CSO 0 0 97.7
Severn Trent Water Hartsay Brook PENTRICH SPS 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Hartshay Brook RIPLEY MOUNT PLEASANT CSO 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.

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