Water company · Midlands
Currently spilling
Serves 4.6 million homes across the Midlands. Major rivers: Severn, Trent, Avon, Derwent.
Severn Trent Water operates 2,418 monitored storm overflows. 1 is currently spilling. 13 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 12.9 years across 648 events on average. The Truth Engine has 193 open flags against them right now.
2,418
Storm overflows
1
Active right now
13
Monitors offline
193
Open flags
162
Spills · last 7 days
12.9 years
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
30 h
Avg event length · 30 days
11
Spills · last 24 hours
7,207
spill events
+6573% vs prior 12m
266,252h
cumulative discharge
+43791% vs prior 12m
6 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 46.9h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 107.9h per overflow. ranked 3 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.