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River Rea polluted by sewage 488 times in 2025 - lasting 795 hours

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Totals for River Rea in 2025
33 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
488 sewage dumps
795 h duration
That's 1.1 months. On average 1.3 times a day
Places along River Rea

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Rea 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 Rea PERSHORE ROAD 2. 69 196 88.9
Severn Trent Water River Rea KINGS NORTON - REAR 24 EBURY RD CSO 36 75 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea WITTON ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 60 73 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea SIR JOHNS ROAD CSO 11 46 93.3
Severn Trent Water River Rea DIGBETH HIGH STREET CSO 50 40 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea MACDONALD STREET CSO 1 11 37 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea SALTLEY VIADUCT 10 37 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea THE MILL WALK CSO 6 36 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea KINGS NORTON 22 35 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea WASHWOOD HEATH - WATSON ROAD CSO 9 35 99.3
Severn Trent Water River Rea CLEOBURY MORTIMER STW 9 29 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Rea SELLY OAK MOOR GREEN LANE CSO 29 25 89.3
Severn Trent Water River Rea ALLENSCROFT ROAD CSO 22 22 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea DADS LANE COMBINED SEWAGE OVERFLOW 10 19 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea OFF EDGEHILL ROAD CSO 16 16 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea CAMP LANE/PERSHORE ROAD SOUTH 33 15 99.2
Severn Trent Water River Rea LAWLEY STREET 8 13 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea CHURCH ROAD 11 11 96.2
Severn Trent Water River Rea MILL LANE COMBINED SEWAGE OVERFLOW 11 10 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea HARBORNE ROAD CSO 14 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea BRISTOL ROAD SOUTH CSO 2 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea CALTHORPE FIELDS CSO 3 12 2 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Rea BRIDGE PIECE CSO 1 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea LAWDEN ROAD CSO 9 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea CALTHORPE FIELDS CSO 1 4 1 97.7
Severn Trent Water River Rea BELL BARN ROAD AREA 3 1 96.2
Severn Trent Water River Rea MACDONALD STREET CSO 2 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea NECHELLS - MOUNT ST-NEEDHAM ST CSO 1 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Rea BORDESLEY STREET CSO 2 0 98.3
Severn Trent Water River Rea PAKENHAM ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea CALTHORPE FIELDS CSO 2 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea BRADFORD STREET/GREEN STREET CSO 1 0 91.9
Severn Trent Water River Rea SS FROM QUARRY LANE CSO NORTHFIELD 1 0 98.6
Severn Trent Water River Rea EDGBASTON ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea FREDERICK ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea ST JAMES ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea ADDERLEY ROAD 0 0 93.8
Severn Trent Water River Rea DIGBETH CHEAPSIDE CSO 0 0 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Rea EDWARD STREET CSO 0 0 19.7
Severn Trent Water River Rea GREEN STREET COMBINED STORM O'FLOW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea KINGSTON ROAD 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea LIVERPOOL STREET 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea MARY STREET 0 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Rea MARY STREET 0 0 70.9
Severn Trent Water River Rea MONTAGUE ST CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea SALTLEY - ALUM ROCK RD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea SMALL HEATH - GLOVERS ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea SMALL HTH - GLOVERS RD-OAKLEY RD SO 0 0 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Rea ST LUKES ROAD 0 0 0
Severn Trent Water River Rea CHURCH HILL COMBINED STORM OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea LONGBRIDGE LANE CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea WEST HEATH ROAD 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea CHARLOTTE RD/ASHTREE RD JCT 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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