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River Wye polluted by sewage 319 times in 2025 - lasting 2,679 hours

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Totals for River Wye in 2025
8 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
319 sewage dumps
2,679 h duration
That's 3.72 months. 6.1 times a week, on average
Constituencies along River Wye

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Wye 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 Wye BAKEWELL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 57 969 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Wye THE POST OFFICE CSO 57 728 100
Severn Trent Water River Wye BUXTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 97 709 99.65
Severn Trent Water River Wye HADDON ROAD PPG STN - STM/EMEG O.F 47 172 99.2
Severn Trent Water River Wye KING STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 32 50 100
Severn Trent Water River Wye BASLOW ROAD CSO 16 46 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Wye NORTH CHURCH STREET CSO 12 1 99.6
Severn Trent Water River Wye PAVILION GARDENS - STORM OVERFLOW 1 0 98.9
Severn Trent Water River Wye MARKET STREET CSO 0 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Wye SCHOOL LANE TERMINAL PS 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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