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West Bromwich

Polluted by sewage 206 times in 2025 lasting 360 hours

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Totals for West Bromwich in 2025

24 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water

206 sewage dumps

360 hours duration

That's 2.14 weeks. 4 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for West Bromwich 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 Tame	PEARTREE BITHELL'S	22	55	100
Severn Trent Water	Tipton Brook	TIPTON CEMETERY CSO	24	55	100
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	IZONS LANE CSO	23	34	99.6
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	DEVON ROAD	10	27	100
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	BROMFORD LANE CSO	16	26	100
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	RAY HALL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	9	24	65.8
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	BESCOT CRESCENT CSO	11	24	100
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	WEST BROMWICH STREET CSO	3	18	100
Severn Trent Water	Birmingham Canal	CEMETERY RD-VICTORIA RD CSO	9	11	99.5
Severn Trent Water	Walsall Canal	WEST BROMWICH - LAMBERT END CSO	15	11	99.9
Severn Trent Water	Groveland Brook	HORSELEY HEATH STORAGE TANK	2	11	100
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	BIRMINGHAM ROAD CSO	21	9	99.3
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	HAMSTEAD PUMPING STATION	1	8	100
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	BESCOT CRES/BROCKHURST CRESCENT CSO	7	8	100
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	BROADWAY (GOLF COURSE) CSO	6	6	91.7
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	BELL LANE/WALSTEAD ROAD CSO	5	6	99.7
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	BRICKHOUSE LANE/GREAT BRIDGE CSO	3	5	98.6
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	W BROMWICH RD RECREATION GROUND CSO	3	5	100
Severn Trent Water	River Trent	ELMBANK ROAD CSO	5	2	100
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	WHITEHALL ROAD CSO	2	2	100
Severn Trent Water	Birmingham Canal	HALFORDS LANE/BRASSHOUSE LANE CSO	6	2	86.8
Severn Trent Water	Hockley Brook	DOWNING STREET CSO	1	1	100
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	FARLEY STREET CSO	1	0	99.9
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	MARKET PLACE CSO	1	0	99.4
Severn Trent Water	Hobnail Brook	SUSSEX AVENUE CSO	0	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Full Brook	JNCT OF BELL RD / BIRMINGHAM RD CSO	0	0	95
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	CHARLEMONT ROAD CSO	0	0	100
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	DUDLEY STREET CSO	0	0	100
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	HAMSTEAD ROAD / WALCOT DRIVE CSO	0	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Hobnail Brook	LYNDON/GRAFTON RD JUNCTION CSO	0	0	99.9
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	WATER LANE CSO	0	0	90
Severn Trent Water	Yew Tree Brook	YEW TREE - BRACKENDALE DRIVE 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.

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