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The Wrekin

Polluted by sewage 591 times in 2025 lasting 1,199 hours

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Live data for The Wrekin in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,210 hours of sewage overflows, from 58 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for The Wrekin in 2025

18 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
591 sewage dumps
1,199 hours duration
That's 1.67 months. On average 1.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for The Wrekin 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water Strine Brook NEWPORT SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 24 228 99.4
Severn Trent Water River Tern GREAT BOLAS SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 50 209 99
Severn Trent Water River Tern RUSHMOOR STW 27 185 99.35
Severn Trent Water Pipe Strine EDGMOND SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 23 151 97.8
Severn Trent Water Tri Of River Strine A518 HONNINGTON CSO 55 98 100
Severn Trent Water Albrighton Brook ALBRIGHTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 240 57 100
Severn Trent Water River Meese TIBBERTON - GREENHOUSES SPS 21 44 98.8
Severn Trent Water River Roden RODEN STW 19 39 99.6
Severn Trent Water Albrighton Brook NEWPORT ROAD SSO 30 35 97
Severn Trent Water River Tern WELLINGTON - MORRISONS CSO 13 31 96.5
Severn Trent Water River Strine HONNINGTON - LILLESHALL SPS 7 27 98.9
Severn Trent Water River Roden HIGH ERCALL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 4 26 99.9
Severn Trent Water Ellerton Brook CHESWARDINE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 15 25 98.1
Severn Trent Water River Roden HIGH ERCALL - CHURCH ROAD CSO 12 16 100
Severn Trent Water Hurley Brook Via Sws BUCKS HEAD CSO 28 15 99.5
Severn Trent Water River Strine SCHOOL ROAD CSO 12 3 100
Severn Trent Water Strine Brook WATERS LANE CSO 10 2 100
Severn Trent Water Or Crow Brook TELFORD - FURNACE LN TRENCH CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Lakemoor Brook ELLERDINE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Church Pool TONG NEWPORT ROAD PUMPING STATION 0 0 98.5
Severn Trent Water River Tern WELLINGTON - GAS WORKS CSO 0 0 97.3

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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