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River Anker polluted by sewage 361 times in 2025 - lasting 1,702 hours

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Totals for River Anker in 2025
15 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
361 sewage dumps
1,702 h duration
That's 2.36 months. 6.9 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Anker ATHERSTONE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 89 349 98.15
Severn Trent Water River Anker ST. MARYS ROAD PUMPING STATION 48 344 97.07
Severn Trent Water River Anker AUSTREY - WARTON LANE SPS (CSO) 48 218 98
Severn Trent Water River Anker WEDDINGTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 30 162 100
Severn Trent Water River Anker POLESWORTH 18 161 100
Severn Trent Water River Anker CHURCH LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 26 123 100
Severn Trent Water River Anker POLESWORTH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 14 115 100
Severn Trent Water River Anker ANKER BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 10 70 98
Severn Trent Water River Anker FENNY DRAYTON SEWAGE PS 24 49 100
Severn Trent Water River Anker ORTON-ON-THE-HILL STW 8 41 98.6
Severn Trent Water River Anker ROYAL MEADOW DRIVE CSO 9 35 84
Severn Trent Water River Anker FINDON CLOSE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 4 16 99.6
Severn Trent Water River Anker NEW STREET CSO 10 6 100
Severn Trent Water River Anker GLASCOTE ROAD CSO 19 4 100
Severn Trent Water River Anker SHUTTINGTON - NEW ROAD SPS 4 2 100

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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