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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Shropshire Hills - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 5,028 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 1,209 hours , potential overflows 14 hours

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Totals for 2025

Sewage5,028 hours
Monitoring offline1,209 hours
Potential pollution14 hours
Storm overflows23

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Daily Data - when it rained, and when they spilled

Square = rainfall none → heavy
Drop = sewage minutes → all day
Potential pollution Monitoring offline
Jan - 818 hours , 304 offline
Feb - 689 hours
Mar - 188 hours , 55 offline
Apr - 33 hours , 295 offline
May - 22 hours , 2 offline
Jun - 102 hours , 44 offline
Jul - 1 hours , 157 offline
Aug - 1 hours , 62 offline
Sept - 107 hours , 48 offline
Oct - 135 hours , 28 offline
Nov - 1,869 hours , 14 potential
Dec - 1,033 hours , 188 offline

Storm overflows in and around Shropshire Hills

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Severn Trent Water CHURCH STRETTON STW (SSTO) Quinny Brook 153 2,796h 18m 264 h
Severn Trent Water CHURCH STRETTON STW (SSTO) Quinny Brook 63 1,499h 53m -
Severn Trent Water CHURCH STRETTON (STW) Quinny Brook 43 308h 27m -
Severn Trent Water CHURCH STRETTON (STW) Quinny Brook 23 201h 23m -
Severn Trent Water RUSHBURY (STW) Lakehouse Brook 22 64h 3m 100 h
Severn Trent Water CLEE HILL - TENBURY ROAD (CSO) Colly Brook 24 49h 16m 109 h
Severn Trent Water CORELEY - TENBURY ROAD (CSO) Corn Brook 16 44h 15m -
Severn Trent Water CRAVEN ARMS - OLD SCHOOL (CSO) River Onny 16 27h 43m 61 h
Severn Trent Water STOKE SAINT MILBOROUGH (CSO) Bockleton Brook 7 22h 22m -
Severn Trent Water CRAVEN ARMS - OLD SCHOOL (CSO) River Onny 4 6h 12m -
Severn Trent Water CORELEY - TENBURY ROAD (CSO) Corn Brook 2 5h 54m -
Severn Trent Water MIDDLETON STW (CSO) Ledwyche Brook 1 1h 35m 14 h
Severn Trent Water CLEE HILL - TENBURY ROAD (CSO) Colly Brook 1 0h 36m -
Severn Trent Water BUILDWAS - PARK VIEW STW (CSO) River Severn 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water MIDDLETON STW (CSO) Ledwyche Brook 0 0h 80 h
Severn Trent Water RUSHBURY (STW) Lakehouse Brook 0 0h 39 h
Severn Trent Water STOKE SAINT MILBOROUGH (CSO) Bockleton Brook 0 0h 91 h
Severn Trent Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LYDBURY NORTH STW (CSO&EO) River Kemp 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LYDBURY NORTH STW (CSO&EO) River Kemp 0 0h 55 h
Severn Trent Water FOREST GLEN (SSO) Beanhill Brook 0 0h 366 h
Severn Trent Water BUILDWAS - PARK VIEW STW (CSO) River Severn 0 0h 40 h
Severn Trent Water FOREST GLEN (SSO) Beanhill Brook 0 0h -

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.