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Birmingham Northfield

Polluted by sewage 164 times in 2024 lasting 269 hours

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Live data for Birmingham Northfield in 2026

So far this year (as of 8 Mar 2026, 06:30) there has been 89 hours of sewage overflows, from 26 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Birmingham Northfield in 2024

12 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
164 sewage dumps
269 hours duration
That's 11.21 days. 3.2 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Birmingham Northfield 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 Rea KINGS NORTON - REAR 24 EBURY RD CSO 53 129 98.3
Severn Trent Water River Rea BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH CSO 11 52 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea KINGS NORTON 30 52 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Rea MILL LANE COMBINED SEWAGE OVERFLOW 20 14 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Rea OFF EDGEHILL ROAD CSO 22 6 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea SS FROM QUARRY LANE CSO NORTHFIELD 10 4 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea CAMP LANE/PERSHORE ROAD SOUTH 10 3 82.4
Severn Trent Water River Rea THE MILL WALK CSO 2 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea WEST HEATH ROAD 1 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea BRIDGE PIECE CSO 2 1 100
Severn Trent Water Bourn CHURCH RD CSO 1 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Rea LONGBRIDGE LANE CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea CHURCH HILL COMBINED STORM OVERFLOW 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.

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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