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Smethwick - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 6,180 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 2,375 hours , potential overflows 1,249 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Smethwick 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 - 706 hours , 1,217 offline
Feb - 682 hours , 271 offline
Mar - 747 hours , 731 potential
Apr - 740 hours , 405 potential
May - 753 hours , 56 offline
Jun - 892 hours , 12 offline
Jul - 812 hours , 19 offline
Aug - 561 hours
Sept - 6 hours , 120 offline
Oct - 13 hours
Nov - 225 hours , 112 potential
Dec - 37 hours , 106 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Severn Trent Water BLACKHEATH - OLDBURY RD/STATION RD (CSO) York Road Brook 233 5,569 h 13m -
Severn Trent Water BLACKHEATH - CAKEMORE ROAD (CSO) York Road Brook 36 220 h 47m 102 h
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - LONDONDERRY LANE (CSO) Stoney Brook Via Sws 21 116 h 43m -
Severn Trent Water HALESOWEN - LONG LANE (CSO) River Tame 29 76 h 52m 104 h
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - CAPE HILL (CSO) Hockley Brook 3 36 h 35m 112 h
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - LONDONDERRY LANE (CSO) Stoney Brook Via Sws 2 26 h 28m -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - RABONE LANE (CSO) Hockley Brook 15 22 h 22m -
Severn Trent Water WHITEHEATH - TITFORD LANE (CSO) River Tame 8 20 h 11m 110 h
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - SOHO WAY/BALDWIN ST (CSO) Hockley Brook 12 18 h 32m 41 h
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - HIGH STREET/WATERY LANE (CSO) Thimblemill Brook 9 16 h 26m 108 h
Severn Trent Water OLDBURY - CEMETERY RD/VICTORIA RD (CSO) Birmingham Canal 12 11 h 57m 233 h
Severn Trent Water BLACKHEATH - CAKEMORE ROAD (CSO) York Road Brook 4 9 h 18m -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - STANHOPE RD/DAVISON RD (CSO) Thimblemill Brook 6 6 h 50m -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - BRASSHOUSE/HALFORDS LA (CSO) Birmingham Canal 14 5 h 44m 1,241 h
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - BOOTH ST/DOWNING ST (CSO) Hockley Brook 9 4 h 42m 59 h
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - CAPE HILL (CSO) Hockley Brook 4 4 h 34m 606 h
Severn Trent Water HALESOWEN - LONG LANE (CSO) River Tame 4 4 h 24m 24 h
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - GROVE STREET (CSO) Hockley Brook 5 4 h 22m -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - DOWNING STREET (CSO) Hockley Brook 2 1 h 26m -
Severn Trent Water WINSON GREEN - WELLINGTON RD (CSO) Hockley Brook 4 0 h 58m -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - RABONE LANE (CSO) Hockley Brook 2 0 h 56m -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - THIMBLEMILL ROAD (CSO) Thimblemill Brook 1 0 h 31m 466 h
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - NORMAN RD/ALEXANDER RD (CSO) Thimblemill Brook 1 0 h 19m 35 h
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - SOHO WAY/BALDWIN ST (CSO) Hockley Brook 1 0 h 19m -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - STANHOPE RD/DAVISON RD (CSO) Thimblemill Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water OLDBURY - CEMETERY RD/VICTORIA RD (CSO) Birmingham Canal 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - DOWNING STREET (CSO) Hockley Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - RABONE LANE 2 (CSO) Hockley Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - DORSET ROAD/WILSON RD (CSO) Birmingham Canal 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water BLACKHEATH - STN ROAD STORM TANKS (CSO) York Road Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - RABONE LANE 2 (CSO) Hockley Brook 0 0 h 25 h
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - DORSET ROAD/WILSON RD (CSO) Birmingham Canal 0 0 h 186 h
Severn Trent Water BLACKHEATH - STN ROAD STORM TANKS (CSO) York Road Brook 0 0 h 78 h
Severn Trent Water WINSON GREEN - WELLINGTON RD (CSO) Hockley Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - NORMAN RD/ALEXANDER RD (CSO) Thimblemill Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - CORNWALL ROAD (CSO) Hockley Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - HIGH STREET/WATERY LANE (CSO) Thimblemill Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water WINSON GREEN - PERROTT STREET (CSO) Hockley Brook 0 0 h 6 h
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - STONEY LANE (CSO) Stony Lane Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water WHITEHEATH - TITFORD LANE (CSO) River Tame 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water WINSON GREEN - WELLINGTON ST (CSO) Hockley Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - BRASSHOUSE/HALFORDS LA (CSO) Birmingham Canal 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water WINSON GREEN - PERROTT STREET (CSO) Hockley Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - GROVE STREET (CSO) Hockley Brook 0 0 h -
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - THIMBLEMILL ROAD (CSO) Thimblemill Brook 0 0 h 81 h
Severn Trent Water SMETHWICK - BOOTH ST/DOWNING ST (CSO) Hockley Brook 0 0 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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