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Polluted by sewage 170 times in 2024 lasting 195 hours
So far this year (as of May 12, 2025, 1:15 PM) there has been 172 hours of sewage overflows
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Birmingham Perry Barr, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Birmingham Perry Barr 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 CSOs 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 | WELLINGTON ROAD CSO | 65 | 61 | 99.8 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Rea | WITTON ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 32 | 58 | 63.8 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | HANDSWORTH PLAYING FIELDS CSO | 30 | 52 | 99.7 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | WELLINGTON ROAD CSO | 30 | 18 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | PERRY BARR - PERRY PARK CSO | 5 | 2 | 71.1 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | WESTMINSTER ROAD CSO | 8 | 1 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame Via Sws | GROVE LANE COMBINED SEWAGE OVERFLOW | 0 | 0 | 99.6 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | HOLTE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 0 | 0 | 83.6 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | STATION RD/YEW TREE ROAD JCT CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
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. This 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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