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Stourbridge

Polluted by sewage 162 times in 2025 lasting 221 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Totals for Stourbridge in 2025

14 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
162 sewage dumps
221 hours duration
That's 1.32 weeks. 3.1 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Stourbridge 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 21 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.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Stour CRADLEY HEATH CSO 5 88 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour JAMES SCOTT ROAD CSO 36 43 99.2
Severn Trent Water River Stour HIGH STREET STORM OVERFLOW 17 27 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Stour LOWER HIGH STREET CSO 47 27 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour ENVILLE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 2 13 100
Severn Trent Water Audnam Brook HAWBUSH ROAD CSO 11 5 100
Severn Trent Water Wordsley Brook BRIERLEY HILL ROAD CSO 4 3 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour STOUR VALE ROAD CSO 3 2 88.7
Severn Trent Water River Stour THE HAYES CSO 9 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour VALLEY ROAD CSO 4 2 100
Severn Trent Water Stourbridge Canal DELPH ROAD STORM OVERFLOW 8 1 98.9
Severn Trent Water River Stour DINGLE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 12 1 100
Severn Trent Water Wordsley Brook WINDSOR GROVE CSO 3 1 98
Severn Trent Water River Stour KINGSWAY PUMPING STATION 1 0 98.9
Severn Trent Water River Stour BIRCH DRIVE CSO 0 0 17.4
Severn Trent Water River Stour BROOK ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour CHARLES ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour HAYES LANE CSO 0 0 98.3
Severn Trent Water River Stour PEBBLE CLOSE CSO 0 0 88
Severn Trent Water River Stour STOURBRIDGE ROAD STORM OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Audnam Brook SWANFIELD ROAD CSO 0 0 100

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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