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Newport (Telford and Wrekin)

Polluted by sewage 34 times in 2025 lasting 230 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Newport (Telford and Wrekin) in 2025

2 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
34 sewage dumps
230 hours duration
That's 1.37 weeks. 2.8 times a month, over the year

Change Over Time

Constituency for Newport (Telford and Wrekin)

Waterways in Newport (Telford and Wrekin)

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Newport (Telford and 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 place 1 of the total 3 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 Strine Brook NEWPORT SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 24 228 99.4
Severn Trent Water Strine Brook WATERS LANE CSO 10 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Meese FORTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 0 0 0

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.

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