Water company · Midlands
Currently spilling
Serves 4.6 million homes across the Midlands. Major rivers: Severn, Trent, Avon, Derwent.
Severn Trent Water operates 2,444 monitored storm overflows. 1 is currently spilling. 9 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 1.3 years across 716 events on average. The Truth Engine has 50 open flags against them right now.
2,444
Storm overflows
1
Active right now
9
Monitors offline
50
Open flags
179
Spills · last 7 days
1.3 years
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
1.3 h
Avg event length · 30 days
5
Spills · last 24 hours
17,801
spill events
27,704h
cumulative discharge
19 weeks
longest single event (all time)
2025-01-01
first event on record
Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, Severn Trent Water averaged 4.6h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 2.4h per overflow. ranked 9 of 10 of UK water companies by 30-day spill hours per monitored overflow.
The 12 watercourses with the most Severn Trent Water overflows discharging into them.