Water company · Midlands
Currently spilling
Serves 4.6 million homes across the Midlands. Major rivers: Severn, Trent, Avon, Derwent.
Severn Trent Water operates 2,446 monitored storm overflows. 2 are currently spilling. 6 monitors are offline. The data records a cumulative discharge of 40 weeks across this operator's network in the last 30 days across an estimated 536 events. The Truth Engine has 46 open flags for this operator's overflows right now.
2,446
Storm overflows
2
Active right now
6
Monitors offline
46
Open flags
134
Spills · last 7 days
40 weeks
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
1.5 h
Avg event length · 30 days
39
Spills · last 24 hours
20,747
spill events
29,276h
cumulative discharge
25 weeks
longest single event
2026-05-06
first event on record
Across 11 water companies in the EA dataset, Severn Trent Water averaged 2.8h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 3.9h per overflow. ranked 5 of 11 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.