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River Roden polluted by sewage 98 times in 2025 - lasting 282 hours

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Totals for River Roden in 2025
6 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
98 sewage dumps
282 h duration
That's 1.68 weeks. 1.9 times a week, on average
Places along River Roden

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Roden 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 Roden WEM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 13 115 100
Severn Trent Water River Roden WELLGATE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 30 57 100
Severn Trent Water River Roden RODEN STW 19 39 99.6
Severn Trent Water River Roden TUTNALLS STREET - HAMS ROAD CSO 20 27 99.3
Severn Trent Water River Roden HIGH ERCALL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 4 26 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Roden HIGH ERCALL - CHURCH ROAD CSO 12 16 100

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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