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Worcester

Polluted by sewage 327 times in 2024 lasting 2,792 hours

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Live data for Worcester in 2026

So far this year (as of 13 Mar 2026, 01:15) there has been 1,476 hours of sewage overflows, from 18 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Worcester in 2024

8 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
327 sewage dumps
2,792 hours duration
That's 3.88 months. 6.3 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Worcester in 2024. 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 River Severn WORCESTER STW 150 2,192 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Severn DIGLIS SYPHON CSO 36 295 96.6
Severn Trent Water River Severn JCT. HYLTON ROAD/HENWICK ROAD CSO 61 124 98.7
Severn Trent Water Duck Brook ORCHARD ST/WAVERLY ST JUNCTION CSO 44 115 88.3
Severn Trent Water River Severn GRANDSTAND ROAD CSO 4 37 100
Severn Trent Water Duck Brook BATH RD/STANLEY ST JUNCTION CSO 19 21 100
Severn Trent Water Duck Brook BATTENHALL ROAD CSO 7 3 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn OMBERSLEY RD/CHECKETTS LANE JCN CSO 6 1 92.8

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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