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North Herefordshire

Polluted by sewage 923 times in 2025 lasting 5,418 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for North Herefordshire in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 10,414 hours of sewage overflows, from 48 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s - that's 1.21 years!

Totals for North Herefordshire in 2025

26 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Trent Water
923 sewage dumps
5,418 hours duration
That's 7.53 months. On average 2.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North Herefordshire in 2025. 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 27 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water Cradley Brook COLWALL STW 81 798 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Pinsley Brook SHOBDON STW 122 700 95
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye SPS AT EARDISLEY STW 37 529 94.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Newbridge Brook WEOBLEY STW 62 516 99.9
Severn Trent Water Cradley Brook COLWALL CSO 50 507 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lugg MORETON ON LUGG WWTW 31 499 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lugg LEOMINSTER WASTEWATER TREATMENT WKS 58 331 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Lugg NEW COURT SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 32 299 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Frome CSO AT TARRINGTON STW 23 233 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Newbridge Brook MANHOLE 9 CSO 50 173 99.3
Severn Trent Water River Teme WATLING STREET CSO 24 114 96.8
Severn Trent Water River Leadon LEDBURY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 49 103 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Frome PETTY BRIDGE SPS 60 96 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Teme HIGH STREET CSO 41 89 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Arrow MANHOLE 27 COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 22 79 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Arrow PEMBRIDGE CSO 35 64 93.6
Severn Trent Water River Leadon SSO AT LITTLE MARCLE ROAD P/STATION 24 51 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Frome CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL CSO 45 51 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Leadon LOWER ROAD TRADING ESTATE CSO 10 40 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Back Brook KINGTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 17 30 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Wye FOWNHOPE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 10 29 99.9
Severn Trent Water Sapey Brook UPPER SAPEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 16 24 99.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Arrow MANHOLE 50 COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 4 19 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Frome PORTHOUSE FARM INDUSTRIAL SITE PS 13 16 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Teme WHITBOURNE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 3 11 99.2
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Frome BROMYARD WWTW 4 6 93.5
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water River Arrow KINGTON - MANHOLE 29 0 0 0

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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