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Telford

Polluted by sewage 335 times in 2025 lasting 526 hours

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Totals for Telford in 2025

16 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
335 sewage dumps
526 hours duration
That's 3.13 weeks. 6.4 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Telford 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 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 IRONBRIDGE (SHAFT) SPS AND LADYWOOD 28 133 99.9
Severn Trent Water Tri Of River Strine A518 HONNINGTON CSO 55 98 100
Severn Trent Water Burroughs Bank Brook DOSELEY SPS 11 63 99.6
Severn Trent Water River Severn FIELD NO. 7078 CSO 54 45 99.9
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 Severn JACKFIELD PUMPING STATION (SPS) 20 25 100
Severn Trent Water Hortonwood Open Channel ROYAL EXCHANGE CAR PARK CSO 24 23 100
Severn Trent Water Crow Brook HORTONWOOD TRENCH CSO 16 20 100
Severn Trent Water Lyde Brook DALE END PUMPING STATION (SPS) 15 18 100
Severn Trent Water Hurley Brook Via Sws BUCKS HEAD CSO 28 15 99.5
Severn Trent Water River Severn LADYWOOD CSO 20 10 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn THE WHARFAGE PUMPING STATION 16 5 100
Severn Trent Water River Strine SCHOOL ROAD CSO 12 3 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn Via Sws PARK AVENUE CSO 15 3 100
Severn Trent Water Or Crow Brook TELFORD - FURNACE LN TRENCH CSO 1 0 100
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 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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