River Amber polluted by sewage 705 times in 2023 - lasting 7,877 hours

Totals for River Amber in 2023

9 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water

705 sewage dumps
7,877 h duration

That's 10.94 months. On average 1.9 times a day

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Constituencies along River Amber

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Amber in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Severn Trent Water	River Amber	WESSINGTON PUMPING STATION	103	1,848	96.5
Severn Trent Water	River Amber	AMBERGATE (HAGWOOD) PUMPING ST	105	1,547	93.5
Severn Trent Water	River Amber	ASHOVER STW	150	1,511	98.1
Severn Trent Water	River Amber	OGSTON WTW CSO	103	1,484	94
Severn Trent Water	River Amber	SOUTH WINGFIELD STW	64	635	97.2
Severn Trent Water	River Amber	KELSTEDGE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	93	384	97.3
Severn Trent Water	River Amber	AMBERGATE PUMPING STATION	23	209	100
Severn Trent Water	River Amber	AMBERGATE STW	21	150	91.7
Severn Trent Water	River Amber	SOUTH WINGFIELD STW	43	105	85.4

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. This 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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