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Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North

Polluted by sewage 255 times in 2025 lasting 589 hours

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Live data for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 162 hours of sewage overflows, from 28 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North in 2025

10 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
255 sewage dumps
589 hours duration
That's 3.51 weeks. 4.9 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Tame CHIPPERFIELD ROAD CSO 90 352 94.7
Severn Trent Water Yardley Brook KITTS GREEN ROAD CSO 46 88 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame RADSTOCK AVENUE 53 50 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole STETCHFORD - EASTFIELD RD CSO 11 38 99.5
Severn Trent Water River Cole FLAXLEY ROAD / WYNDHURST ROAD CSO 7 30 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole GRESSEL LN/EATESBROOK RD CSO 22 9 96.7
Severn Trent Water River Cole YARDLEY - NEWBRIDGE RD CSO 8 7 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole SHELDON HALL AVENUE CSO 6 5 95.5
Severn Trent Water River Tame WASHWOOD HEATH/WARD END PARK RD CSO 7 4 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame ALUM ROCK 5 1 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Cole ALCOTT GROVE CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Cole COLE VALLEY EASTERN SEWER 0 0 82.9
Severn Trent Water River Cole HOB MOOR ROAD CSO 0 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Cole STECHFORD - OPP 99 STECHFORD LN 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.

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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