Coven Heath Water Reclamation Works
Liquid / sludgeInert
Coven Heath Water Reclamation Works is a historic (closed) landfill site recorded by the Environment Agency near Wolverhampton. It received liquid/sludge and inert waste between 1897 and 1993, covering about 87.33 hectares. Reference EAHLD23929, October 2025 data revision.
Full record
| EA reference | EAHLD23929 |
|---|---|
| Site name | Coven Heath Water Reclamation Works |
| Address | Sewage Sludge Disposal Area, Clewley Lane, Coven Heath |
| Site operator | Not recorded |
| Licence holder | Severn Trent Water |
| Licence issued | 21 April 1992 |
| Licence surrendered | 11 May 1993 |
| First waste input | 31 December 1897 |
| Last waste input | 11 May 1993 |
| Area | 87.33 ha |
| Gas control | Not recorded |
| Leachate containment | Not recorded |
| Licensed site | Yes |
| EA area | Upper Trent MI |
| Grid reference | 390300, 304300 |
Source: Environment Agency Historic Landfill Sites dataset, October 2025 revision.
Boundary map
What these waste types mean
- Liquid / sludge:
- liquid wastes and sludges, such as sewage sludge or industrial effluent. Can be mobile in groundwater, so worth understanding.
- Inert:
- builder's rubble, subsoil, concrete, brick. Doesn't decompose or generate gas; the lowest-concern category.
Other historic landfill sites nearby
- Coultaulds TipLiquid / sludgeIndustrial
- Marston Excelsior LimitedLiquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
- Pendeford Industrial Estate, Wobaston RoadSpecialIndustrialInert
- Stafford Road LandfillIndustrialInert
- Pendeford Open Space No.1Inert
- Pendeford Open Space No.1Liquid / sludgeIndustrialInert
What this data does — and doesn't — cover
- Licensed-era records only. Waste licensing began in 1974. Older tips — especially small pre-war ones — are incompletely recorded, so absence from this data does not mean no landfill ever existed here.
- Not the contaminated-land register. Councils hold a separate register of land determined as contaminated. A historic landfill entry is not a contamination determination, and vice versa.
- Boundaries are indicative. Digitised at 1:10,000 scale; some are buffers around a point rather than surveyed edges.
- Not a substitute for a formal environmental search. If you're buying, your conveyancer's environmental search checks this and several other sources.
EA Historic Landfill dataset, October 2025 revision. More on the methodology page.