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River Tame polluted by sewage 667 times in 2025 - lasting 1,744 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Tame 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 Tame CHIPPERFIELD ROAD CSO 90 352 94.7
Severn Trent Water River Tame COLESHILL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WRKS 31 246 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame MINWORTH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 24 190 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame GRAVELLY HILL WALKER DRIVE (B) CSO 26 110 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame LONG LANE STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 36 84 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame PEARTREE BITHELL'S 22 55 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame RADSTOCK AVENUE 53 50 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame CSO AT LICHFIELD ROAD SPS 9 49 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame TAMWORTH SWAGE PUMPING STATION 8 47 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Tame OFF WALKER DRIVE (A) CSO 10 41 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame WOOD END CSO 24 37 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame DARLASTON ROAD CSO 11 37 100
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 NORTH WILLENHALL - BENTLEY RD CSO 7 25 92.3
Severn Trent Water River Tame TWO GATES-MOUNT PLEASANT CSO 9 25 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame COVENTRY ROAD SPS 8 25 99.6
Severn Trent Water River Tame RAY HALL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 9 24 65.8
Severn Trent Water River Tame WELLINGTON ROAD CSO 53 23 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame BESCOT ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 3 22 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame FORDROUGH LANE CSO 10 20 99.4
Severn Trent Water River Tame CSO AT FORMER TITFORD PS 7 20 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame GRAVELLY HILL -OFF WALKER DRIVE CSO 9 19 82.8
Severn Trent Water River Tame WEST BROMWICH STREET CSO 3 18 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame WELLINGTON ROAD CSO 25 17 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame ALREWAS SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 3 14 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame POPLAR ROAD CSO 8 14 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame 52 NANSEN ROAD CSO 27 13 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame HANDSWORTH PLAYING FIELDS CSO 10 9 98.1
Severn Trent Water River Tame HAMSTEAD PUMPING STATION 1 8 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame DARLASTON - BENTLEY ROAD SOUTH CSO 3 5 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame BRICKHOUSE LANE/GREAT BRIDGE CSO 3 5 98.6
Severn Trent Water River Tame CANALSIDE SCH LANE/LUDGATE ROAD CSO 13 5 95.3
Severn Trent Water River Tame WASHWOOD HEATH/WARD END PARK RD CSO 7 4 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame HEDGING LANE CSO 6 4 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame MYVOD ROAD CSO 10 3 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame STATION RD/YEW TREE ROAD JCT CSO 2 3 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame WHITEHALL ROAD CSO 2 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame FOXTON ROAD-WARD END PARK ROAD CSO 5 1 92.5
Severn Trent Water River Tame PERRY BARR - PERRY PARK CSO 4 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame ALUM ROCK 5 1 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Tame WOLVERHAMPTON - POND LN-KENT RD CSO 3 1 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Tame HOLTE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame SALFORD CIRCUS CSO 3 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame PORTOBELLO - WILLENHALL RD CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame SPITFIRE ROAD CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame WESTMINSTER ROAD CSO 5 0 99.4
Severn Trent Water River Tame HARTS ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 5 0 100
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 River Tame CLARENCE ROAD CSO 0 0 99.6
Severn Trent Water River Tame LICHFIELD ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame WHEELWRIGHT RD/ALLEYNE RD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame WOODCOTE ROAD CSO 0 0 97.6
Severn Trent Water River Tame ARGYLE STREET 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame BIRMINGHAM ROAD STORM OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame ELFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 0 0 99.4
Severn Trent Water River Tame HIGH STREET (DOSTHILL) CSO 0 0 84.4
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 River Tame WATER LANE CSO 0 0 90
Severn Trent Water River Tame PORTOBELLO - DILLOWAYS/WAITE RD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame WILLENHALL - WALSALL RD-ACORN ST SO 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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