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Smestow Brook polluted by sewage 120 times in 2025 - lasting 276 hours

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Totals for Smestow Brook in 2025
14 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
120 sewage dumps
276 h duration
That's 1.64 weeks. 2.3 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Smestow Brook in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook BRICK KILN LANE CSO 52 89 100
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook TRESCOTT SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 14 81 100
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook CASTLECROFT LN SPS CSO 6 39 100
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook BRIDGNORTH ROAD CSO 5 31 100
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook HENWOOD RD/MEADOW VIEW TERRACE CSO 13 16 100
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook SETTLED SO AT FORMER WOMBOURNE STW 2 12 99.2
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook TRYSULL ROAD CSO 11 1 100
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook SOUTH WEST INTERCEPTOR CSO 2 1 98.5
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook CHAPEL ASH/LOVATT STREET JCN CSO 9 0 93.4
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook WESTACRE CRESCENT CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook NORTH EAST INTERCEPTOR CSO 1 0 99.4
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook PARK LANE CSO 1 0 94.8
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook THE HOLLOWAY CSO 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook FINCHFIELD HILL/WHITE OAK DRIVE CSO 1 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook HOPYARD LANE/STRAIGHTS RD JCT CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook TRESCOTT SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 92.5
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook WEDNESFIELD ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Smestow Brook CLARENCE ST/LOVATT ST JUNCTION 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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