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South Shropshire

Polluted by sewage 921 times in 2025 lasting 6,860 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for South Shropshire in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 6,218 hours of sewage overflows, from 96 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for South Shropshire in 2025

37 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
921 sewage dumps
6,860 hours duration
That's 9.53 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 South 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 43 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 Quinny Brook CHURCH STRETTON STW 197 3,434 98.75
Severn Trent Water River Teme LUDLOW SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 59 583 100
Severn Trent Water Farley Brook MUCH WENLOCK SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 52 559 97.4
Severn Trent Water River Severn COALPORT SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 78 541 99.55
Severn Trent Water River Worfe ACKLETON AND STABLEFORD STW 18 323 100
Severn Trent Water Worthen Brook WORTHEN STW 11 166 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn BRIDGNORTH (THE SLADS) STW 30 162 99.6
Severn Trent Water Borle Brook HIGHLEY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 24 116 99.8
Severn Trent Water Borle Brook REAR OF HIGHLEY PEN FACTORY CSO 42 98 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Teme TEMESIDE PUMPING STATION 28 85 88.8
Severn Trent Water River Severn CROSS HOUSES STW 15 80 100
Severn Trent Water River Redlake BUCKNELL TERMINAL PUMPING STATION 9 80 93.4
Severn Trent Water Lakehouse Dingle Brook ALVELEY STW 19 71 100
Severn Trent Water Mires Brook RUSHBURY STW 20 63 100
Severn Trent Water Shyte Brook ST. MILBURGA'S PRIORY GROUNDS CSO 37 56 100
Severn Trent Water Cound Brook DORRINGTON STW 32 49 99.6
Severn Trent Water Corn Brook STORM OVERFLOW AT CLEE HILL STW 22 47 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn FIELD NO. 7078 CSO 54 45 99.9
Severn Trent Water Studley Brook TILBURY PROPERTIES LTD - EMEG O/F 27 39 99
Severn Trent Water Cantern Brook STANLEY LANE SPS 29 37 100
Severn Trent Water River Onny STOKESAY CASTLE CSO U/S CRAVEN ARMS 19 34 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn UNDERHILL STREET PUMPING STATION 11 31 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea CLEOBURY MORTIMER STW 9 29 99.9
Severn Trent Water Bockleton Brook STOKE SAINT MILBOROUGH STW 6 22 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn WELLMEADOW ESTATE CSO 6 17 100
Severn Trent Water Cound Brook BROOK CLOSE PUMPING STATION 3 16 100
Severn Trent Water River Teme BURFORD - SWAN HOTEL SPS 6 15 97.9
Severn Trent Water Danford Brook CLAVERLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 7 13 99.3
Severn Trent Water Borle Brook NETHERTON LANE CSO 3 11 100
Severn Trent Water River Teme LUDFORD SPS - EMERG O/F & STORM O/F 8 10 100
Severn Trent Water River Worfe BECKBURY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 10 7 98.7
Severn Trent Water River Severn WESTGATE-SALOP ST-VICTORIA ROAD CSO 18 2 96
Severn Trent Water River Severn ALVELEY - 46 DADDLEBROOK ROAD CSO 5 2 100
Severn Trent Water Ledwyche Brook MIDDLETON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 1 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn RIVERSIDE WEST CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn HOLLYBUSH ROAD CSO 3 0 93.8
Severn Trent Water River Corve LUDLOW - THE LINNEY CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Kemp BISHOPS CASTLE - UNION STREET CSO 0 0 0
Severn Trent Water River Severn BUILDWAS (PARK VIEW) 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn CHURCH STREET - BROSELEY CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn CRESSAGE PS COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Kemp LYDBURY NORTH STW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Teme OLD STREET CSO 0 0 100

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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

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