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Somercotes and Swanwick

Polluted by sewage 386 times in 2025 lasting 1,475 hours

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Totals for Somercotes and Swanwick in 2025

15 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
386 sewage dumps
1,475 hours duration
That's 2.05 months. On average 1.1 times a day

Change Over Time

Constituency for Somercotes and Swanwick

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Somercotes and Swanwick 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 Erewash PYE BRIDGE WWTW 44 360 99.9
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 Oakerthorpe Brook MORTIMER WILSON CSO 41 171 100
Severn Trent Water Hartshay Brook SWANWICK SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 41 165 99.6
Severn Trent Water River Erewash SOMERCOTES - LOWER BIRCHWOOD SPS 20 109 99.8
Severn Trent Water Hickton Brook HICKTON RD PUMPING STATION 28 82 99.4
Severn Trent Water River Erewash IRONVILLE - VICTORIA STREET SPS 25 81 98.8
Severn Trent Water Hartshay Brook DELVES FARM CSO 31 44 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash SOMERCOTES - BIRCHWOOD LANE SPS 7 22 100
Severn Trent Water Oakerthorpe Brook ALFRETON - BROOK AVENUE CSO 18 19 100
Severn Trent Water Alfreton Brook HIGHFIELDS PUMPING STATION 6 12 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash SOMERCOTES ROAD CSO 3 5 100
Severn Trent Water Butterley Reservoir OUTSIDE GOODWIN CSO 3 0 99.8
Severn Trent Water Cromford Canal GREENHILL INDUSTRIAL ESTATE CSO 1 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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