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Birmingham Yardley - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 86 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 2,557 hours , potential overflows 2 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Birmingham Yardley 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 - 20 hours , 197 offline
Feb - 0 hours , 78 offline
Mar - 0 hours , 338 offline
Apr - 2 hours , 53 offline
May - 2 hours
Jun - 0 hours , 64 offline
Jul - 0 hours , 13 offline
Aug - 0 hours , 231 offline
Sept - 2 hours , 32 offline
Oct - 14 hours , 2 potential
Nov - 34 hours , 626 offline
Dec - 7 hours , 755 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Severn Trent Water TYSELEY - HAY HALL ROAD (CSO) River Cole 10 37 h 12m 69 h
Severn Trent Water BIRMINGHAM - BORDESLEY GREEN ROAD (CSO) River Cole 27 19 h 18m -
Severn Trent Water MARSTON GRN - BELL LA(ADJ RAILWAY) (CSO) Hatchford Brook 2 10 h 684 h
Severn Trent Water YARDLEY - BLAKESLEY ROAD (CSO) River Cole 1 6 h 130 h
Severn Trent Water MARSTON GRN - BELL LA(ADJ RAILWAY) (CSO) Hatchford Brook 1 4 h 40m 149 h
Severn Trent Water TYSELEY - HAY HALL ROAD (CSO) River Cole 2 2 h 30m -
Severn Trent Water BIRMINGHAM - BORDESLEY GREEN ROAD (CSO) River Cole 4 1 h 36m -
Severn Trent Water SHELDON - COVENTRY RD/BARROWS LANE (CSO) Westley Brook 3 1 h 33m -
Severn Trent Water SHELDON - COMMON LA/BICKLEY GROVE (CSO) Westley Brook 8 1 h 18m 136 h
Severn Trent Water OLTON - WAGON LANE (CSO) Not Defined 2 0 h 47m 184 h
Severn Trent Water SMALL HEATH - DORA ROAD (CSO) River Cole 1 0 h 24m -
Severn Trent Water SMALL HEATH - SOMERVILLE ROAD (CSO) River Cole 2 0 h 23m 103 h
Severn Trent Water SMALL HEATH - MUNTZ STREET (CSO) River Cole 1 0 h 14m -
Severn Trent Water SHELDON - COMMON LA/BICKLEY GROVE (CSO) Westley Brook 1 0 h 5m -
Severn Trent Water TYSELEY - SPEEDWELL RD/REDHILL RD (CSO) River Cole 1 0 h 4m -
Severn Trent Water SHELDON - COVENTRY RD/ARDEN OAK RD (CSO) Hatchford Brook 1 0 h 350 h
Severn Trent Water OLTON - WAGON LANE (CSO) Not Defined 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water BIRMINGHAM - FLOYER ROAD (CSO) River Cole 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water TYSELEY - SPEEDWELL RD/REDHILL RD (CSO) River Cole 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SMALL HEATH - MUNTZ STREET (CSO) River Cole 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SMALL HEATH - HEYBARNES RD (CSO) River Cole 0 0 h 101 h
Severn Trent Water YARDLEY - BLAKESLEY ROAD (CSO) River Cole 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SMALL HEATH - DORA ROAD (CSO) River Cole 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SMALL HEATH - SOMERVILLE ROAD (CSO) River Cole 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water BIRMINGHAM - FLOYER ROAD (CSO) River Cole 0 0 h 5 h
Severn Trent Water SHELDON - COVENTRY RD/BARROWS LANE (CSO) Westley Brook 0 0 h 31 h
Severn Trent Water SHELDON - COVENTRY RD/ARDEN OAK RD (CSO) Hatchford Brook 0 0 h 612 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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