Top of the Poops | Constituency | Birmingham Selly Oak| Polluted by Severn Trent Water

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Live data for Birmingham Selly Oak in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:30 AM) there has been 77 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Birmingham Selly Oak in 2024

13 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water

341 sewage dumps

540 hours duration

That's 22.5 days. 6.6 times a week, on average

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Waterways in Birmingham Selly Oak

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Birmingham Selly Oak, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Birmingham Selly Oak in 2024. 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 CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Severn Trent Water	Chinn Brook	YARDLEY WOOD ROAD CSO	75	189	100
Severn Trent Water	Chinn Brook	COCKS MOORS WOODS GOLF COURSE CSO	58	91	99.8
Severn Trent Water	River Rea	ALLENSCROFT ROAD CSO	34	64	100
Severn Trent Water	Chinn Brook	YARDLEY WOOD RD/HAUNCH LANE JCT CSO	27	47	100
Severn Trent Water	Chinn Brook	BAYSTON ROAD CSO	55	39	100
Severn Trent Water	River Rea	DADS LANE COMBINED SEWAGE OVERFLOW	16	31	100
Severn Trent Water	Griffins Brook	WOODBROOK ROAD CSO	14	30	100
Severn Trent Water	Chinn Brook	ALCESTER ROAD SOUTH CSO	9	22	100
Severn Trent Water	River Cole	COLEBOURNE ROAD CSO	24	12	100
Severn Trent Water	Chinn Brook	GLASTONBURY ROAD CSO	19	6	99.8
Severn Trent Water	River Cole	BROOK LANE 515 CSO	3	2	99.6
Severn Trent Water	Bourn Brook	HARBORNE LANE CSO	2	1	100
Severn Trent Water	Chinn Brook	ARDENCOTE ROAD 24 CSO	5	0	99.9
Severn Trent Water	River Rea	CHARLOTTE RD/ASHTREE RD JCT CSO	0	0	97.5

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Birmingham Selly Oak Polluted by sewage 341 times in 2024 lasting 540 hours

Birmingham Selly Oak