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Southwell (Newark and Sherwood)

Polluted by sewage 122 times in 2025 lasting 264 hours

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Totals for Southwell (Newark and Sherwood) in 2025

5 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
122 sewage dumps
264 hours duration
That's 1.57 weeks. 2.3 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

Constituency for Southwell (Newark and Sherwood)

Waterways in Southwell (Newark and Sherwood)

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Southwell (Newark and Sherwood) 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 Potwell Dyke HALLOUGHTON RD - WEST GATE CSO 36 121 100
Severn Trent Water River Greet SOUTHWELL - NEWARK ROAD CSO 27 82 99.5
Severn Trent Water River Greet OLD STATION SOUTHWELL CSO 19 45 98.9
Severn Trent Water Potwell Dyke CHURCH STREET CSO 30 15 99.9
Severn Trent Water Potwell Dyke SOUTHWELL - NOTTINGHAM ROAD CSO 10 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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