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Kingswinford and South Staffordshire

Polluted by sewage 391 times in 2024 lasting 1,895 hours

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Live data for Kingswinford and South Staffordshire in 2026

So far this year (as of 8 Mar 2026, 06:30) there has been 1,284 hours of sewage overflows, from 53 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Kingswinford and South Staffordshire in 2024

18 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water, United Utilities
391 sewage dumps
1,895 hours duration
That's 2.63 months. On average 1.1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Kingswinford and South Staffordshire 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 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water Bilbrook CODSALL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 79 688 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Stour MILL LANE SPS 105 298 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour ROUNDHILL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WRKS 48 237 99.95
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook TRESCOTT SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 30 231 50
Severn Trent Water Himley Brook HIMLEY STW 25 135 92.4
Severn Trent Water Moat Brook STATION ROAD P.S,CODSALL 14 84 99.6
Severn Trent Water Nun Brook PATTINGHAM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 10 45 96.8
Severn Trent Water River Penk MOAT BROOK PUMPING STATION 7 43 100
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook SETTLED SO AT FORMER WOMBOURNE STW 4 42 100
Severn Trent Water Wom Brook GIGGETTY LANE CSO 33 35 99.5
Severn Trent Water Holbeache Brook BROOK STREET CSO 19 26 100
Severn Trent Water River Penk LANE GREEN PUMPING STATION 5 6 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour KINVER STW 1 6 100
Severn Trent Water River Penk BOWEN COOKE AVE SEWAGE PUMPING STA 1 4 98.4
Severn Trent Water Dawley Brook CROSS STREET CSO 5 3 99
Severn Trent Water Wordsley Brook WINDSOR GROVE CSO 2 1 96.2
Severn Trent Water Merryhill Brook DIMMINGSDALE STW 1 0 99.9
United Utilities River Irwell FAIRY LANE CSO 281T3 2 0 99
Severn Trent Water Cut Throat Brook BOBBINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Penk COLERIDGE DRIVE SPS 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook TRESCOTT SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100

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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