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Birmingham Ladywood

Polluted by sewage 383 times in 2025 lasting 541 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Birmingham Ladywood in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 367 hours of sewage overflows, from 149 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Birmingham Ladywood in 2025

33 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
383 sewage dumps
541 hours duration
That's 3.22 weeks. On average 1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Birmingham Ladywood 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 2 of the total 59 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Tame GRAVELLY HILL WALKER DRIVE (B) CSO 26 110 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook HUNTERS VALE CSO 46 58 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame OFF WALKER DRIVE (A) CSO 10 41 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea DIGBETH HIGH STREET CSO 50 40 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook LODGE ROAD NO.1 (MUSGRAVE) CSO 48 38 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Rea MACDONALD STREET CSO 1 11 37 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea SALTLEY VIADUCT 10 37 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea WASHWOOD HEATH - WATSON ROAD CSO 9 35 99.3
Severn Trent Water River Tame FORDROUGH LANE CSO 10 20 99.4
Severn Trent Water River Tame GRAVELLY HILL -OFF WALKER DRIVE CSO 9 19 82.8
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook HANDSWORTH - 102 BACCHUS ROAD CSO 24 16 99.6
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook HANDSWORTH - NINEVEH ROAD 2 CSO 13 16 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea LAWLEY STREET 8 13 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame 52 NANSEN ROAD CSO 27 13 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook HANDSWORTH - PIERS ROAD CSO 10 12 98.8
Severn Trent Water River Rea CHURCH ROAD 11 11 96.2
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook HANDSWORTH - NINEVEH ROAD 1 CSO 7 5 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook WINSON GREEN ROAD JUNCTION CSO 3 4 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Rea LAWDEN ROAD CSO 9 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame FOXTON ROAD-WARD END PARK ROAD CSO 5 1 92.5
Severn Trent Water River Rea BELL BARN ROAD AREA 3 1 96.2
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook SMITH STREET/HOCKLEY STREET JCT CSO 11 0 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook WELLINGTON ROAD/VILLIERS STREET CSO 4 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea MACDONALD STREET CSO 2 2 0 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook ALL SAINTS HOSPITAL 2 CSO 1 0 98.5
Severn Trent Water River Rea NECHELLS - MOUNT ST-NEEDHAM ST CSO 1 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Tame HARTS ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 5 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea BORDESLEY STREET CSO 2 0 98.3
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook LIONEL STREET CSO 2 0 75.2
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook FRANCIS ROAD CSO 3 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea BRADFORD STREET/GREEN STREET CSO 1 0 91.9
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook ELKINGTON STREET / ASTON BROOK CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook ALL SAINTS HOSPITAL 1 CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea ADDERLEY ROAD 0 0 93.8
Severn Trent Water River Tame ARGYLE STREET 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook CORPORATION STREET CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea DIGBETH CHEAPSIDE CSO 0 0 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Rea EDWARD STREET CSO 0 0 19.7
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook GERRARD CLOSE CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook GOODMAN STREET CSO 0 0 98.7
Severn Trent Water River Rea GREEN STREET COMBINED STORM O'FLOW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea KINGSTON ROAD 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea LIVERPOOL STREET 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea MARY STREET 0 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Rea MARY STREET 0 0 70.9
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook MILTON STREET CSO 0 0 92.5
Severn Trent Water River Rea MONTAGUE ST CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook NEWTOWN ROW NO.1 CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook PLUME STREET 0 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Rea SALTLEY - ALUM ROCK RD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook SHEEPCOTE ST/NILE STREET JCT SSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea SMALL HEATH - GLOVERS ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Rea SMALL HTH - GLOVERS RD-OAKLEY RD SO 0 0 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Rea ST LUKES ROAD 0 0 0
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook STEELHOUSE LANE CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook VENTNOR AVENUE CSO 0 0 95.8
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook VESEY STREET CSO 0 0 99.5
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook WATER STREET CSO 0 0 88.2
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook WELLINGTON ST/FRANKLIN ST JCT CS0 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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