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Halesowen was polluted by sewage 219 times in 2023
lasting 1,192 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Halesowen in 2023
9 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
219 sewage dumps
1,192 h duration
That's 1.66 months. 4.2 times a week, on average
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Halesowen in 2023. 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 1 of the total 13 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Stour CRADLEY HEATH CSO 25 569 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour BELLE VALE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 36 265 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Stour JAMES SCOTT ROAD CSO 52 133 95.8
Severn Trent Water Black Brook COPPICE LANE CSO 8 70 73.7
Severn Trent Water Mousesweet Brook BANNISTER ST CSO 45 69 92.2
Severn Trent Water River Stour CHESTER ROAD (CRADLEY ROAD 2) CSO 35 59 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame LONG LANE STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 10 20 96.3
Severn Trent Water Lutley Gutter FALLOWFIELD ROAD CSO 2 3 99.8
Severn Trent Water Mousesweet Brook NEWTOWN LANE CSO 6 1 88.5
Severn Trent Water Mousesweet Brook OLD HILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 50
Severn Trent Water Mousesweet Brook CRADLEY ROAD 1 CSO 0 0 0
Severn Trent Water Mousesweet Brook OLD HILL TRINITY CSO 0 0 98.6
Severn Trent Water Illey Brook DUDLEY ROAD CSO 0 0 97.4

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. 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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