Birmingham Edgbaston

Polluted by sewage 141 times in 2025 lasting 233 hours

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Live data for Birmingham Edgbaston in 2026

So far this year (as of 26 Oct 2026, 10:15) there has been 296 hours of sewage overflows, from 29 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Sewage without rain in Birmingham Edgbaston

On 6 occasions since December 2024, no rain fell anywhere in Birmingham Edgbaston for days — and its CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s discharged anyway.

Totals for Birmingham Edgbaston in 2025

14 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
141 sewage dumps
233 hours duration
Sewage pollution map of Birmingham Edgbaston
Sewage pollution map of Birmingham Edgbaston: 141 spills in 2025, lasting 233 hours, by Severn Trent Water
That's 1.39 weeks. 2.7 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Birmingham Edgbaston in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Rea PERSHORE ROAD 2. 69 196 88.9
Severn Trent Water Stonehouse Brook MILL LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 6 10 100
Severn Trent Water Bourn Brook VICARAGE ROAD CSO 20 9 100
Severn Trent Water Bourn Brook LEASOW DRIVE CSO 3 6 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea HARBORNE ROAD CSO 14 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea CALTHORPE FIELDS CSO 3 12 2 99.9
Severn Trent Water Chad Brook MOORPOOL AVENUE CSO 3 1 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Rea CALTHORPE FIELDS CSO 1 4 1 97.7
Severn Trent Water Bourn Brook TENNAL LANE CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Stonehouse Brook CALTHORPE RD-ST JAMES RD JCN CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water Chad Brook HIGH STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 3 0 98.8
Severn Trent Water River Rea PAKENHAM ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea CALTHORPE FIELDS CSO 2 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water Stonehouse Brook MIDDLE ACRE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea EDGBASTON ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Bourn Brook FREDAS GROVE CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea FREDERICK ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Chad Brook HIGH STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea ST JAMES ROAD CSO 0 0 100

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.

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