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North Shropshire

Polluted by sewage 808 times in 2025 lasting 2,936 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for North Shropshire in 2026

So far this year (as of 10 Aug 2026, 20:31) there has been 1,513 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 North Shropshire in 2025

32 Sites polluted by Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Severn Trent Water United Utilities
808 sewage dumps
2,936 hours duration
That's 4.08 months. On average 2.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North Shropshire 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 32 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.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Greenfield Valley STORMWATER TANK ADJACENT TO HALLS F 80 369 99.4
Severn Trent Water Sidleymoor Brook MILL STREET CSO 151 325 99.3
Severn Trent Water River Morda MILE OAK STW 40 301 99.7
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Wych Brook WHITCHURCH (RISING SUN) WWTW 32 263 99.8
Severn Trent Water Tetchill Brook ELLESMERE WHARF MEADOW STW 38 227 98.9
Severn Trent Water River Vyrnwy PANT PLAS CERRIG STW 18 150 99.6
United Utilities Manchester Ship Canal EXPRESSWAY 8 RUNCORN 50 127 99.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Morlas Brook RHOSWIEL BRIDGE CSO 36 124 91.9
Severn Trent Water River Roden WEM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 13 115 100
Severn Trent Water River Morda WESTON LANE MORDA CSO 13 113 97.8
Severn Trent Water Bailey Brook PREES - HIGHER HEATH STW 15 89 98.5
Severn Trent Water Common Brook OSWESTRY DRENEWYDD STW 7 87 100
Severn Trent Water Common Brook WHITTINGTON - BABBINSWOOD TPS 7 73 100
Severn Trent Water Oswestry Brook SMITHFIELD MARKET CAR PARK CSO 35 64 100
Severn Trent Water Weir Brook KNOCKIN PUMPING STATION 38 57 88.5
Severn Trent Water River Roden WELLGATE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 30 57 100
Severn Trent Water Weir Brook WEST FELTON STW 5 54 100
Severn Trent Water Wem Brook WEM DRAWEL P.STN STORM OVERFLOW 6 48 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Red Brook BARGATES NO 2174 CSO 46 48 75
Severn Trent Water Newnes Brook ELLESMERE - WHARF ROAD SPS 31 48 100
Severn Trent Water Tri Of River Roden THE GROVE CSO 15 33 98.8
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Of Morlas Brook ST.MARTIN'S COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 9 29 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Morlais Brook ST MARTINS SPS NEFOD OSWESTRY 5 28 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Red Brook JUBILEE PARK NO 3175 CSO 14 25 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Tern MARKET DRAYTON STW 23 18 100
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Ceiriog CHIRK BANK PS 3 17 99.9
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Red Brook SMALLBROOK NO 2177 CSO 18 14 99.1
Severn Trent Water Newnes Brook BEECH DRIVE ELLESMERE CSO 13 10 100
Severn Trent Water River Perry GOBOWEN - FERNHILL LANE SPS 5 7 99.3
Severn Trent Water River Tern WALKMILL ROAD PUMPING STATION 7 2 34.1
Severn Trent Water Common Brook GOBOWEN ROAD CSO 4 0 100
Severn Trent Water Common Brook OSWESTRY GOBOWEN RD-BEATRICE ST CSO 1 0 91.5

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.

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