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River Sence polluted by sewage 504 times in 2025 - lasting 2,913 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Sence 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 Sence COALVILLE SOUTH PUMPING STATION 53 475 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence SHEEPY PUMPING STATION 24 388 97.4
Severn Trent Water River Sence DONINGTON-LE-HEATH TOWNSEND LN CSO 74 293 99.4
Severn Trent Water River Sence WHETSTONE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WRKS 19 255 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence COUNTESTHORPE STW 28 233 97.3
Severn Trent Water River Sence SHENTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 41 218 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence BAGWORTH MAIN SPS 16 142 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence BILLESDON STW 25 130 99.6
Severn Trent Water River Sence STOKE GOLDING SEWAGE PUMPING STN 20 86 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence CONGERSTONE PUMPING STATION 8 82 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence GREAT GLEN SPS - STM/EMG O/F 8 78 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence WESTFIELD AVENUE CSO 11 74 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence PUMPING STATION 9 61 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence WOODYARD LANE CSO 13 45 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence AUBURN ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 16 44 99
Severn Trent Water River Sence KINGS NORTON SPS & GAULBY STW 4 39 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence PARK ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 7 32 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence WIGSTON GAS LANE CSO 29 27 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence COALVILLE - LONDON ROAD CSO 12 25 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence BROOKSIDE CSO 15 24 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence THE HOLLOW 4 22 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence HUGGLESCOTE STATION ROAD CSO 3 21 92.6
Severn Trent Water River Sence VICARAGE LANE PUMPING STATION 2 18 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence CENTRAL ROAD CSO 11 17 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence SNIBSTON - ST MARYS LANE CSO 6 16 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence FOREST ROAD CSO 8 14 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence PARK PUMPING STATION 4 12 98.6
Severn Trent Water River Sence SYCAMORE STREET CSO 4 8 95.4
Severn Trent Water River Sence HEATHER PUMPING STATION 2 8 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence WIGSTON - COUNTESTHORPE ROAD CSO 13 5 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence MIDLAND COTTAGES CSO 9 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence WIGSTON MOAT STREET CSO 1 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence ODSTONE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence WIGSTON - BLABY ROAD CSO 3 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence LITTLE STRETTON STW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence WIGSTON CROW MILLS SPS 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence BELCHERS BAR PUMPING STATION 0 0 96.2
Severn Trent Water River Sence DENNIS STREET STORM OVERFLOW 0 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Sence STATION ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Sence STATION ROAD PUMPING STATION 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.

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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