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Bottle Brook polluted by sewage 208 times in 2025 - lasting 1,170 hours

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Totals for Bottle Brook in 2025
11 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
208 sewage dumps
1,170 h duration
That's 1.62 months. 4 times a week, on average
Constituencies along Bottle Brook

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bottle Brook in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook MAREHAY STW 38 443 93.65
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook KILBURN STW 45 344 99.8
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook TANTS MEADOW 30 176 99.8
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook APOLLO ENGINEERING SITE CSO 45 125 100
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook LOWER KILBURN - DERBY ROAD SPS 37 58 100
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook OFF CHURCH STREET CSO 5 17 100
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook KILBURN - RAWSON GREEN CSO 3 2 99.2
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook HORSLEY WOODHOUSE - CHESTNUT CL CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook KILBURN - 211 DERBY ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook KILBURN - DERBY RD/BYWELL LN CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook RIPLEY - DERBY RD/BOWLER STREET CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook HOLBROOK - TOWN STREET CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook HOLBROOK - WATERING LANE CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook RYKNIELD ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook LITTLE EATON SPS - STM/EMERGENCY OF 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Bottle Brook STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW ALFRETON ROAD 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

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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