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Birmingham Selly Oak - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 243 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 1,587 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Birmingham Selly Oak for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 68 hours , 818 offline
Feb - 2 hours , 117 offline
Mar - 0 hours , 18 offline
Apr - 6 hours , 27 offline
May - 0 hours , 127 offline
Jun - 2 hours
Jul - 4 hours , 0 offline
Aug - 0 hours
Sept - 10 hours , 84 offline
Oct - 8 hours , 25 offline
Nov - 123 hours , 0 potential
Dec - 16 hours , 188 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Severn Trent Water BRANDWD END-COCKS MOOR WD GLF CRSE (CSO) Chinn Brook 25 43 h 15m 35 h
Severn Trent Water YARDLEY WOOD - FIRTH DRIVE X (CSO) Chinn Brook 12 33 h 26m 30 h
Severn Trent Water BOURNVILLE - WOODBROOKE ROAD (CSO) Griffins Brook 7 22 h 50m -
Severn Trent Water SELLY OAK - MOOR GREEN LANE (CSO) River Rea 21 22 h 5m 690 h
Severn Trent Water KINGS HEATH - YARDLEY WOOD ROAD (CSO) Chinn Brook 12 21 h 49m 18 h
Severn Trent Water LIFFORD - ALLENS CROFT ROAD (CSO) River Rea 16 18 h 34m 38 h
Severn Trent Water SELLY OAK - DADS LANE (CSO) River Rea 8 17 h 11m 49 h
Severn Trent Water KINGS HEATH - COCKS MOORS LEIS CEN (CSO) Chinn Brook 4 16 h 8m -
Severn Trent Water KINGS HEATH - BAYSTON RD PLAY FLDS (CSO) Chinn Brook 26 12 h 10m 8 h
Severn Trent Water YARDLEY WOOD - FIRTH DRIVE X (CSO) Chinn Brook 5 10 h 43m -
Severn Trent Water BILLESLEY - DENE HOLLOW (CSO) River Cole 6 6 h 59m 1 h
Severn Trent Water BRANDWD END-COCKS MOOR WD GLF CRSE (CSO) Chinn Brook 3 4 h 44m -
Severn Trent Water LIFFORD - ALLENS CROFT ROAD (CSO) River Rea 4 4 h 27m 40 h
Severn Trent Water SELLY OAK - MOOR GREEN LANE (CSO) River Rea 5 2 h 54m 209 h
Severn Trent Water KINGS HEATH - GLASTONBURY RD (CSO) Chinn Brook 6 2 h 29m -
Severn Trent Water KINGS HEATH - BAYSTON RD PLAY FLDS (CSO) Chinn Brook 5 1 h 28m -
Severn Trent Water BOURNVILLE - WOODBROOKE ROAD (CSO) Griffins Brook 1 0 h 51m -
Severn Trent Water KINGS HEATH - COCKS MOORS LEIS CEN (CSO) Chinn Brook 1 0 h 37m -
Severn Trent Water SELLY OAK - DADS LANE (CSO) River Rea 1 0 h 31m -
Severn Trent Water BREEDON CROSS - CHARLOTTE ROAD (CSO) River Rea 2 0 h 15m 51 h
Severn Trent Water YARDLEY WOOD รขโ‚ฌโ€œ PRIORY ROAD MH 9601 (CSO) River Cole 1 0 h 3m 127 h
Severn Trent Water BILLESLEY - BROOK LANE 515 (CSO) River Cole 1 0 h 2m 200 h
Severn Trent Water SELLY OAK - HARBORNE LANE (CSO) Bourn Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water BILLESLEY - DENE HOLLOW (CSO) River Cole 0 0 h 87 h
Severn Trent Water BREEDON CROSS - CHARLOTTE ROAD (CSO) River Rea 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water KINGS HEATH - YARDLEY WOOD ROAD (CSO) Chinn Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water KINGS HEATH - ARDENCOTE ROAD 24 (CSO) Chinn Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water BILLESLEY - BROOK LANE 515 (CSO) River Cole 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SELLY OAK - HARBORNE LANE (CSO) Bourn Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water KINGS HEATH - ARDENCOTE ROAD 24 (CSO) Chinn Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water KINGS HEATH - GLASTONBURY RD (CSO) Chinn Brook 0 0 h -

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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