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Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 186 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 526 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 50 hours , 432 offline
Feb - 89 hours
Mar - 16 hours
Apr - 0 hours , 44 offline
May - 11 hours , 0 offline
Jun - 17 hours , 24 offline
Jul - 0 hours , 25 offline
Aug - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Severn Trent Water KITTS GREEN - KITTS GREEN ROAD (CSO) Yardley Brook 30 89h 17m -
Severn Trent Water WASHWOOD HEATH - BROMFORD ROAD (CSO) River Tame 24 40h 17m 25 h
Severn Trent Water STECHFORD - EASTFIELD ROAD (CSO) River Cole 13 24h 59m 108 h
Severn Trent Water YARDLEY - YARDLEY GREEN ROAD (CSO) River Cole 10 13h 46m 174 h
Severn Trent Water ALUM ROCK - ALUM ROCK RD/PELHAM RD (CSO) River Cole 18 8h 30m -
Severn Trent Water KITTS GREEN - GRESSEL LANE (CSO) River Cole 8 3h 49m 24 h
Severn Trent Water STECHFORD - FLAXLEY ROAD (CSO) River Cole 2 3h 1m 108 h
Severn Trent Water WASHWOOD HEATH - WASHWOOD HEATH RD (CSO) River Tame 3 1h 22m -
Severn Trent Water BORDESLEY GREEN - FORDROUGH LA XXX (CSO) River Tame 3 0h 32m -
Severn Trent Water YARDLEY - NEWBRIDGE ROAD (CSO) River Cole 1 0h 24m -
Severn Trent Water WASHWOOD HEATH - BROMFORD LANE (CSO) River Tame 1 0h 18m -
Severn Trent Water STECHFORD - STECHFORD LN OPP 99 (CSO) River Cole 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BORDESLEY GREEN - FORDROUGH LA XXX (CSO) River Tame 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BROMFORD - RADSTOCK AVE/LINDALE AV (CSO) River Tame 0 0h 41 h
Severn Trent Water YARDLEY - NEWBRIDGE ROAD (CSO) River Cole 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water WASHWOOD HEATH - BROMFORD LANE (CSO) River Tame 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water SMALL HEATH - HOB MOOR ROAD (CSO) River Cole 0 0h 44 h
Severn Trent Water STECHFORD - EASTFIELD ROAD (CSO) River Cole 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water YARDLEY - YARDLEY GREEN ROAD (CSO) River Cole 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water KITTS GREEN - GRESSEL LANE (CSO) River Cole 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BROMFORD - RADSTOCK AVE/LINDALE AV (CSO) River Tame 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water KITTS GREEN - MIDDLE LEAFORD (CSO) River Cole 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water STECHFORD - FLAXLEY ROAD (CSO) River Cole 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water WASHWOOD HEATH - BROMFORD ROAD (CSO) River Tame 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water WASHWOOD HEATH - WASHWOOD HEATH RD (CSO) River Tame 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water KITTS GREEN - KITTS GREEN ROAD (CSO) Yardley Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water KITTS GREEN - MIDDLE LEAFORD (CSO) River Cole 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water ALUM ROCK - ALUM ROCK RD/PELHAM RD (CSO) River Cole 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

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.