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River Erewash polluted by sewage 824 times in 2025 - lasting 4,499 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Erewash 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 Erewash PINXTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 67 1,021 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Erewash KIRKBY IN ASHFIELD SEWAGE TREATMENT 74 394 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Erewash PYE BRIDGE WWTW 44 360 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Erewash MILNHAY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 38 305 45.4
Severn Trent Water River Erewash COSSALL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 37 299 99.3
Severn Trent Water River Erewash CROMFORD ROAD - CSO NO 3 63 242 95.8
Severn Trent Water River Erewash TOTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 24 241 98.5
Severn Trent Water River Erewash GALLOWS INN COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 31 238 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash POTTERS LOCK PUMPING STATION 19 167 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash EREWASH SQ ILKESTON OUTLET 3 CSO 29 165 97.2
Severn Trent Water River Erewash STAPLEFORD-BESSELL LANE WWTW 19 125 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash SOMERCOTES - LOWER BIRCHWOOD SPS 20 109 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Erewash ILKESTON (HALLAM FIELDS) WWTW 29 96 94.3
Severn Trent Water River Erewash MAIN ROAD CSO 27 95 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash MEADOW LODGE STORM OVERFLOW 15 86 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash IRONVILLE - VICTORIA STREET SPS 25 81 98.8
Severn Trent Water River Erewash EAST OF STRATFORD STREET CSO 39 73 96.5
Severn Trent Water River Erewash LANGLEY MILL - STATION ROAD CSO 28 61 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash BIRCHWOOD LANE CSO 23 58 91.3
Severn Trent Water River Erewash STATION ROAD PUMPING STATION SSO 20 44 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash EASTWOOD - MANSFIELD ROAD CSO 18 38 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash LANGLEY MILL - MILNHAY ROAD CSO 8 28 99.2
Severn Trent Water River Erewash STAPLEFORD PHASE 1 CSO 10 27 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash SOMERCOTES - BIRCHWOOD LANE SPS 7 22 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash CROSSLEY PS - STORM/EMERGENCY OF 10 21 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash KIRKBY-IN-ASHFIELD - LANE END CSO 13 19 97.9
Severn Trent Water River Erewash SANDIACRE ROAD PUMPING STATION SSO 2 16 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Erewash BIRCHWOOD LANE CSO 12 14 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash HIGH ROAD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 21 10 89.5
Severn Trent Water River Erewash REGENT STREET CSO 5 8 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash ANNESLEY WOODHOUSE- FOREST RD A CSO 4 5 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash SOMERCOTES ROAD CSO 3 5 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash SPRINGFIELD GARDEN B CSO 16 4 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash BENNETT STREET CSO 1 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash STARCH LANE CSO 9 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash WOODSTOCK ROAD CSO 8 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash PORTLAND ROAD/CARRFIELD AVENUE SSO 2 0 98.7
Severn Trent Water River Erewash HOLBOURN VIEW SSO AND GATEBROOK 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash NEWTONS LANE JUNCTION CSO 3 0 88.9
Severn Trent Water River Erewash LANGLEY MILL - CROMFORD ROAD CSO 0 0 99.3
Severn Trent Water River Erewash SELSTON GREEN - SELSTON RD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash MANHOLES 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Erewash WASH MEADOW CSO 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

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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