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North Shropshire - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,176 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 5,137 hours , potential overflows 22 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in North Shropshire for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 574 hours , 2 potential
Feb - 76 hours , 166 offline
Mar - 53 hours , 411 offline
Apr - 110 hours , 18 potential
May - 35 hours , 46 offline
Jun - 16 hours
Jul - 40 hours , 74 offline
Aug - 3 hours , 579 offline
Sept - 119 hours
Oct - 20 hours
Nov - 650 hours , 1 potential
Dec - 474 hours , 868 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Severn Trent Water ELLESMERE - WHARF MEADOW STW (SSTO) Tetchill Brook 31 230 h 40m 18 h
Severn Trent Water MILE OAK STW (SSTO) River Morda 27 213 h 39m 118 h
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Whitchurch Rising Sun WwTW Storm Overflow Wych Brook 27 178 h 30m -
Severn Trent Water MORDA - WESTON ROAD (CSO) River Morda 22 154 h 26m 38 h
Severn Trent Water PANT-PLAS CERRIG (STW) River Vyrnwy 12 144 h 3m 57 h
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Rhoswiel Bridge Storm Overflow Tributary of Morlas Brook 17 117 h 8m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Whitchurch Park Avenue Storm Overflow Tributary of Red Brook 51 100 h 46m -
Severn Trent Water WEM - ASTON ROAD STW (SSTO) River Roden 10 96 h 56m 2 h
Severn Trent Water MILE OAK STW (SSTO) River Morda 13 87 h 23m -
Severn Trent Water ELLESMERE - WHARF MEADOW STW (SSTO) Tetchill Brook 10 73 h 44m -
Severn Trent Water DRENEWYDD - OSWESTRY (STW) Common Brook 5 64 h 55m -
Severn Trent Water WHITTINGTON - BABBINSWOOD (CSO) Common Brook 4 53 h 36m 186 h
Severn Trent Water OSWESTRY - KNOCKIN STW IPS (CSO) Weir Brook 26 50 h 58m 1,881 h
Severn Trent Water OSWESTRY - SMITHFIELD MARKET CARPK (CSO) Oswestry Brook 33 48 h 52m -
Severn Trent Water WEST FELTON STW (CSO & EO) Weir Brook 4 47 h 30m 302 h
Severn Trent Water WEM - DRAWWELL LANE SPS (CSO) Wem Brook 6 43 h 6m -
Severn Trent Water WEM - WELLGATE (CSO) River Roden 19 37 h 44m 120 h
Severn Trent Water ELLESMERE - WHARF ROAD PS (CSO) Newnes Brook 25 35 h 4m -
Severn Trent Water WEM - THE GROVE XX (REAR GARDEN) (CSO) Tri Of River Roden 12 34 h 1m 426 h
Severn Trent Water PREES - HIGHER HEATH STW (SSTO) Bailey Brook 6 32 h 53m 364 h
Severn Trent Water PANT-PLAS CERRIG (STW) River Vyrnwy 4 32 h 7m -
Severn Trent Water GOBOWEN - FERNHILL LANE (CSO) River Perry 6 30 h 33m 98 h
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water St Martins Storm Overflow Morlais Brook 5 27 h 15m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water St. Martins Village Hall Storm Overflow tributary of Morlais Brook 6 25 h -
Severn Trent Water DRENEWYDD - OSWESTRY (STW) Common Brook 2 20 h 55m -
Severn Trent Water WHITTINGTON - BABBINSWOOD (CSO) Common Brook 3 19 h 33m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Waterside Close Whitchurch Storm Overflow Staggs Brook 13 18 h 58m -
Severn Trent Water WEM - ASTON ROAD STW (SSTO) River Roden 3 18 h 45m -
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Park Avenue Whitchurch Storm Overflow Staggs Brook 12 16 h 53m -
Severn Trent Water GOBOWEN - FERNHILL LANE (CSO) River Perry 5 15 h 48m 431 h
Severn Trent Water WEM - WELLGATE (CSO) River Roden 7 15 h 47m 38 h
Severn Trent Water OSWESTRY - SMITHFIELD MARKET CARPK (CSO) Oswestry Brook 7 14 h 46m -
Severn Trent Water ELLESMERE - WHARF ROAD PS (CSO) Newnes Brook 5 12 h 47m -
Severn Trent Water MARKET DRAYTON STW (CSO) River Tern 14 12 h 21m -
Severn Trent Water OSWESTRY - KNOCKIN STW IPS (CSO) Weir Brook 6 8 h 31m -
Severn Trent Water WEST FELTON STW (CSO & EO) Weir Brook 1 7 h 47m -
Severn Trent Water PREES - HIGHER HEATH STW (SSTO) Bailey Brook 3 5 h 35m -
Severn Trent Water WEM - DRAWWELL LANE SPS (CSO) Wem Brook 1 5 h 31m 115 h
Severn Trent Water ELLESMERE - OSWESTRY RD/BEECH DR (CSO) Newnes Brook 7 5 h 20m -
Severn Trent Water MARKET DRAYTON STW (CSO) River Tern 5 3 h 40m -
Severn Trent Water PREES - MILL STREET (CSO) Sidleymoor Brook 1 3 h 35m 50 h
Severn Trent Water ELLESMERE - OSWESTRY RD/BEECH DR (CSO) Newnes Brook 2 3 h 18m -
Severn Trent Water MORDA - WESTON ROAD (CSO) River Morda 1 2 h 44m -
Severn Trent Water OSWESTRY - GOBOWEN RD/BEATRICE ST (CSO) Common Brook 1 0 h 48m 0 h
Severn Trent Water WEM - THE GROVE XX (REAR GARDEN) (CSO) Tri Of River Roden 2 0 h 44m 49 h
Severn Trent Water OSWESTRY - GOBOWEN/WHITTINGTON RD (CSO) Common Brook 6 0 h 44m -
Severn Trent Water GOBOWEN - ST MARTINS ROAD (CSO) River Perry 4 0 h 30m -
Severn Trent Water GOBOWEN - ST MARTINS ROAD (CSO) River Perry 0 0 h 62 h
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water Chirk Bank Storm Overflow River Ceiriog 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water OSWESTRY - GOBOWEN RD/BEATRICE ST (CSO) Common Brook 0 0 h 767 h
Severn Trent Water OSWESTRY - GOBOWEN/WHITTINGTON RD (CSO) Common Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water PREES - MILL STREET (CSO) Sidleymoor Brook 0 0 h 29 h

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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