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River Cole polluted by sewage 177 times in 2025 - lasting 348 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Cole in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Cole COLESHILL - 54 OLD MILL ROAD CSO 23 116 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole SAREHOLE ROAD 323 CSO 60 73 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole STETCHFORD - EASTFIELD RD CSO 11 38 99.5
Severn Trent Water River Cole HAY HALL ROAD CSO 12 33 99
Severn Trent Water River Cole FLAXLEY ROAD / WYNDHURST ROAD CSO 7 30 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole GRESSEL LN/EATESBROOK RD CSO 22 9 96.7
Severn Trent Water River Cole COLEBOURNE ROAD CSO 15 9 91.3
Severn Trent Water River Cole COLE END SPS 4 7 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Cole YARDLEY - NEWBRIDGE RD CSO 8 7 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole YARDLEY WOOD ROAD CSO 1 6 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole YARDLEY BLAKESLEY ROAD CSO 1 6 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Cole SHELDON HALL AVENUE CSO 6 5 95.5
Severn Trent Water River Cole ULVERLEY GREEN ROAD PUMPING STATION 1 1 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Cole SMALL HEATH - MUNTZ ST CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole SOMMERVILLE ROAD CSO 1 0 99.3
Severn Trent Water River Cole BROOK LANE 515 CSO 1 0 97.5
Severn Trent Water River Cole WAKE GREEN RD-YARDLEY WOOD RD CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole SPEEDWELL RD/REDHILL RD CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole ALCOTT GROVE CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole COLE VALLEY EASTERN SEWER 0 0 82.9
Severn Trent Water River Cole HOB MOOR ROAD CSO 0 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Cole STECHFORD - OPP 99 STECHFORD LN CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole HEYBARNES ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole SMALL HEATH - DORA 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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