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Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North

Polluted by sewage 380 times in 2024 lasting 1,155 hours

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Live data for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North in 2026

So far this year (as of 9 Mar 2026, 03:00) there has been 140 hours of sewage overflows, from 28 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North in 2024

10 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
380 sewage dumps
1,155 hours duration
That's 1.6 months. On average 1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North in 2024. 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 Tame CHIPPERFIELD ROAD CSO 95 603 98.8
Severn Trent Water Yardley Brook KITTS GREEN ROAD CSO 52 153 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame RADSTOCK AVENUE 76 144 96.8
Severn Trent Water River Cole FLAXLEY ROAD / WYNDHURST ROAD CSO 33 103 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole YARDLEY - NEWBRIDGE RD CSO 24 38 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole STETCHFORD - EASTFIELD RD CSO 20 37 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Tame ALUM ROCK 30 30 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Cole GRESSEL LN/EATESBROOK RD CSO 17 21 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame WASHWOOD HEATH/WARD END PARK RD CSO 20 14 91.3
Severn Trent Water River Cole SHELDON HALL AVENUE CSO 13 7 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Cole ALCOTT GROVE CSO 0 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Cole COLE VALLEY EASTERN SEWER 0 0 97.2
Severn Trent Water River Cole HOB MOOR ROAD CSO 0 0 95
Severn Trent Water River Cole STECHFORD - OPP 99 STECHFORD LN 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

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

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