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Forest of Dean - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 11,479 hours in 2026 - That's 1.33 years , monitoring offline 1,958 hours , potential overflows 145 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Forest of Dean 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 - 3,721 hours , 145 potential
Feb - 6,052 hours , 89 offline
Mar - 1,510 hours , 97 offline
Apr - 77 hours
May - 117 hours , 4 offline
Jun - 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 PITTS MILL STW (SSTO) Glynch Brook 66 1,516h 4m -
Severn Trent Water BROADOAK STW (CSO) River Severn 78 1,407h 30m -
Severn Trent Water BLAKENEY (STW) River Severn 80 1,363h 25m 106 h
Severn Trent Water LYDNEY STW (SSTO) River Severn Estuary 80 1,335h 29m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water St Briavels WwTW Storm Overflow Wye Estuary 65 928h 46m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ruardean WwTW Storm Overflow Unnamed Tribuatary of Lodgegrove Brook 50 891h 51m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Newland WwTW Settled Storm Overflow River Wye 50 723h -
Severn Trent Water LONGHOPE STW (SSTO) Longhope Brook 46 623h 25m -
Severn Trent Water OLDCROFT - OLD DAM ROAD (CSO) Plummers Brook 23 415h 5m 61 h
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Lydbrook WwTW Storm Overflow River Wye 30 375h -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Joyford The Sinks Storm Overflow Unnamed Brook 19 314h 45m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Sedbury Storm Overflow River Wye Estuary 33 231h 30m -
Severn Trent Water BLAKENEY STW STAGE X SPS (CSO) River Severn 43 224h 8m -
Severn Trent Water HARTPURY - WATERSMEET (CSO) Colliers Brook 13 174h 12m -
Severn Trent Water LYDNEY - EAST MARSH (SSO) Lyd 20 170h 54m -
Severn Trent Water WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN - CHURCH (CSO) Westbury Brook 18 167h 38m 0 h
Severn Trent Water ALVINGTON - ST ANNES WELL (CSO) Cone Brook 19 125h 40m 779 h
Severn Trent Water CHURCHAM (CSO) Ley Brook 7 114h 6m 108 h
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Lydbrook Storm Overflow Tributary of the River Wye 21 51h 54m -
Severn Trent Water KEMPLEY - FISHPOOL (SSO) River Alne 9 48h 39m 270 h
Severn Trent Water LYDNEY - CHURCH ROAD (CSO) River Lyd 31 45h 28m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Newland WwTW No.2 Storm Overflow Valley Brook 21 44h -
Severn Trent Water BROADOAK (CSO) River Severn 7 43h 57m 25 h
Severn Trent Water NEWENT STW (SSTO) Ell Brook 10 37h 21m -
Severn Trent Water SOUDLEY - NR TRAMWAY ROAD (SSO) Cinderford Brook 7 25h 23m 162 h
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Lydbrook Overflow River Wye 8 21h 25m -
Severn Trent Water HUNTLEY - ORCHARD WAY (CSO) River Leadon 10 19h 21m 6 h
Severn Trent Water CINDERFORD - VALLEY ROAD (CSO) Cinderford Brook 9 12h 33m -
Severn Trent Water DYMOCK STW (CSO) River Leadon 4 5h 39m -
Severn Trent Water NEWNHAM - LOWER HIGH STREET PS (CSO) River Severn 10 5h -
Severn Trent Water LYDNEY - TUTNALLS ST/HAMS RD (CSO) River Roden 6 4h 17m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Wyebank Road Storm Overflow River Wye estuary 5 3h 27m -
Severn Trent Water NEWENT - THE CROFT (CSO) Peacocks Brook 2 2h 46m 46 h
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Newland WwTW No1 Storm Overflow Valley Brook 4 2h -
Severn Trent Water RUSPIDGE - RAILWAY ROAD (CSO) Cinderford Brook 3 1h 41m 108 h
Severn Trent Water CINDERFORD - CRUMPMEADOW STW (SSTO) Cinderford Brook 2 0h 42m 108 h
Severn Trent Water Unknown Unknown 1 0h 30m -
Severn Trent Water NEWENT - CLEEVE MILL LANE (CSO) Ell Brook 1 0h 23m -
Severn Trent Water MITCHELDEAN - VANTAGE POINT BV (CSO) Longhope Brook 1 0h 7m 108 h
Severn Trent Water CINDERFORD - CRUMPMEADOW STW (SSTO) Cinderford Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LYDNEY STW (SSTO) River Severn Estuary 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BLAKENEY STW STAGE 1 SPS (CSO) River Severn 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CINDERFORD - GREENWAY ROAD (CSO) Cinderford Brook 0 0h 50 h
Severn Trent Water HARTPURY - WATERSMEET (CSO) Colliers Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BROADOAK STW (CSO) River Severn 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water RUSPIDGE - RAILWAY ROAD (CSO) Cinderford Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LYDNEY - EAST MARSH (SSO) Lyd 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water YORKLEY SLADE (CSO) Plummer'S Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BLAKENEY (STW) River Severn 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water OLDCROFT - OLD DAM ROAD (CSO) Plummers Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water SOUDLEY - NR TRAMWAY ROAD (SSO) Cinderford Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water PITTS MILL STW (SSTO) Glynch Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BROADOAK (CSO) River Severn 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BLAKENEY STW STAGE X SPS (CSO) River Severn 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water NEWENT - THE CROFT (CSO) Peacocks Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water BLAKENEY STW STAGE 1 SPS (CSO) River Severn 0 0h 25 h
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Speech House Road Broadwell Overflow Cannop Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water ELLWOOD - HOLLY LANE (SSO) Dry Brook 0 0h 25 h
Severn Trent Water KEMPLEY - FISHPOOL (SSO) River Alne 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CINDERFORD - VALLEY ROAD (CSO) Cinderford Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LYDNEY - TUTNALLS ST/HAMS RD (CSO) River Roden 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water ALVINGTON - ST ANNES WELL (CSO) Cone Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water MITCHELDEAN - VANTAGE POINT BV (CSO) Longhope Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CHURCHAM (CSO) Ley Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water NEWNHAM - LOWER HIGH STREET PS (CSO) River Severn 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water MAISEMORE - GLOUCESTER ROAD (CSO) Ullesthorpe Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LONGHOPE STW (SSTO) Longhope Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water NEWENT STW (SSTO) Ell Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water CINDERFORD - GREENWAY ROAD (CSO) Cinderford Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LITTLEDEAN STW (SSTO) Westbury Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LITTLEDEAN STW (SSTO) Westbury Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water ELLWOOD - HOLLY LANE (SSO) Dry Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LYDNEY - CHURCH ROAD (CSO) River Lyd 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water HUNTLEY - ORCHARD WAY (CSO) River Leadon 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water DYMOCK STW (CSO) River Leadon 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LITTLE DRYBROOK (CSO) Dry Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water LITTLE DRYBROOK (CSO) Dry Brook 0 0h 108 h
Severn Trent Water MAISEMORE - GLOUCESTER ROAD (CSO) Ullesthorpe Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water NEWENT - CLEEVE MILL LANE (CSO) Ell Brook 0 0h -
Severn Trent Water WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN - CHURCH (CSO) Westbury Brook 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.