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River Severn polluted by sewage 1,661 times in 2025 - lasting 8,813 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Severn 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 Severn BLAKENEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 233 2,042 99.83
Severn Trent Water River Severn BROADOAK SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 87 1,127 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Severn WORCESTER STW 68 975 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn BARNARDS GREEN (MALVERN) STW 90 799 99.45
Severn Trent Water River Severn HOLBURY CRESCENT PUMPING STATION 53 605 99.1
Severn Trent Water River Severn COALPORT SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 78 541 99.55
Severn Trent Water River Severn GLOUCESTER NETHERIDGE STW 65 422 99.95
Severn Trent Water River Severn SHREWSBURY MONKMOOR STW 53 253 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn UPTON ON SEVERN STW 12 178 99.5
Severn Trent Water River Severn BRIDGNORTH (THE SLADS) STW 30 162 99.6
Severn Trent Water River Severn THE OVAL SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 22 160 88
Severn Trent Water River Severn DIGLIS SYPHON CSO 18 150 98
Severn Trent Water River Severn IRONBRIDGE (SHAFT) SPS AND LADYWOOD 28 133 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Severn ATTWOOLLS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 18 113 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn BROADOAK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 13 94 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn LOWER FERRY LANE CSO 23 89 87.9
Severn Trent Water River Severn CROSS HOUSES STW 15 80 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn JCT. HYLTON ROAD/HENWICK ROAD CSO 46 73 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn CSO AT LONGDEN COLEHAM PS 24 56 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn VICTORIA AVENUE STORM SEWER OF 25 52 92
Severn Trent Water River Severn CLIVE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 42 49 98.4
Severn Trent Water River Severn RIVERSIDE TOWPATH CSO 27 48 97
Severn Trent Water River Severn THORNHILL ROAD CSO 25 46 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Severn FIELD NO. 7078 CSO 54 45 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Severn DANA STEPS CSO 26 44 96.5
Severn Trent Water River Severn QUAY LANE STW 32 38 98.7
Severn Trent Water River Severn VICTORIA AVE / CRESCENT LN CSO 20 35 89.3
Severn Trent Water River Severn BURTON STREET CSO 17 32 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Severn UNDERHILL STREET PUMPING STATION 11 31 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn GRANDSTAND ROAD CSO 9 30 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn NEWNHAM PUMPING STATION 26 30 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn JACKFIELD PUMPING STATION (SPS) 20 25 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn DITHERINGTON ROAD CSO 26 21 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn NEW PARK FARM CSO 26 21 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn QUARRY PARK STORM SEWER OVERFLOW 15 20 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn PORT HILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 19 19 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn HOLT HEATH STW 23 19 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn WELLMEADOW ESTATE CSO 6 17 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn CHARTER LANE O/F 14 16 96.1
Severn Trent Water River Severn ADJACENT TO RADBROOK CSO 8 15 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Severn ST MARYS WATER LANE/RIVERSIDE 18 14 76.5
Severn Trent Water River Severn GREYFRIARS BRIDGE CSO 12 14 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn UNDERDALE ROAD CSO 9 11 99.2
Severn Trent Water River Severn LADYWOOD CSO 20 10 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn 75 COTON HILL CSO 22 9 99.3
Severn Trent Water River Severn SMITHFIELD RD STORM O/F 16 8 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Severn COTON HILL CSO 23 6 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn THE WHARFAGE PUMPING STATION 16 5 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn WESTGATE-SALOP ST-VICTORIA ROAD CSO 18 2 96
Severn Trent Water River Severn ALVELEY - 46 DADDLEBROOK ROAD CSO 5 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn BRIDGE STREET CSO 9 1 92.3
Severn Trent Water River Severn ST AUSTINS STREET STORM OVERFLOW 7 0 93.2
Severn Trent Water River Severn STOURPORT ROAD PUMPING STATION 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn SHREWSBURY FLOOD DEFENCE SPS 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn WHITE HORSE PASSAGE CSO 4 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn NEW STREET (STORM OVERFLOW) 4 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn RIVERSIDE WEST CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn OMBERSLEY RD/CHECKETTS LANE JCN CSO 4 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn MADDOCKS BUILDING O/F 15 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn COLE AVENUE CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn HOLLYBUSH ROAD CSO 3 0 93.8
Severn Trent Water River Severn MARDOL CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn PARK FARM CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn 49 UNDERDALE RD O/F 0 0 99.4
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 Severn CRESSAGE PS COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn KEMPSEY STW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Severn ARELEY KINGS PUMPING STATION 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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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