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Kenilworth and Southam

Polluted by sewage 944 times in 2025 lasting 9,621 hours - That's 1.11 years!

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Kenilworth and Southam in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 8,132 hours of sewage overflows, from 93 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Kenilworth and Southam in 2025

42 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water Thames Water
944 sewage dumps
9,621 hours duration
That's 1.11 years. On average 2.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Kenilworth and Southam 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 1 of the total 42 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.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Dene WELLESBOURNE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 87 1,509 100
Severn Trent Water River Leam FRANKTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 83 1,191 98.7
Severn Trent Water River Itchen FENNY COMPTON STW 70 866 39.5
Severn Trent Water River Sowe COVENTRY-FINHAM WWTW 62 826 100
Severn Trent Water River Itchen ITCHEN BANK SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 53 560 100
Severn Trent Water Kingswood Brook ROWINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 45 546 95
Severn Trent Water Tach Brook LIGHTHORNE HEATH STW 41 529 100
Thames Water Hanwell Brook FARNBOROUGH (WARKS) WWTW 40 433 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon BUBBENHALL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 28 399 100
Severn Trent Water Grand Union Canal Stream NORTON GREEN STW 30 324 100
Severn Trent Water River Dene NORTHEND STW 84 287 98.3
Severn Trent Water Whatcote Brook LOWER FARM PPG. STATION - STORM O/F 22 249 100
Severn Trent Water River Stowe STOCKTON-NEW ZEALAND/NAPTON RDSPS 31 206 100
Severn Trent Water Finham Brook KENILWORTH - DALEHOUSE LANE TPS 26 197 100
Severn Trent Water River Dene KINETON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 19 193 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Stowe NAPTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 26 168 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Itchen LONG ITCHINGTON SPS 12 163 100
Severn Trent Water River Stowe SOUTHAM PUMPING STATION (SPS) 16 140 100
Thames Water Hanwell Brook AVON DASSETT STW, AVON DASSETT, WAR 12 90 99.9
Severn Trent Water Pingle Brook CUBBINGTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATON 15 89 100
Thames Water Hanwell Brook WARMINGTON STW, WARMINGTON, BANBURY 15 83 98.2
Severn Trent Water Broadwell Brook BROADWELL - STORM & EMERG 7 74 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon MORETON PADDOX STW 24 67 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Itchen BASCOTE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 12 65 99.4
Severn Trent Water Princethorpe Brook OFF CHURCH HILL - STORM & EMERG 11 58 100
Thames Water Hanwell Brook SHOTTESWELL WWTW 9 57 100
Severn Trent Water River Itchen HABURY SEWAGE PMP.STN - STORM 5 40 100
Severn Trent Water Charlecote Brook MORETON MORRELL WWTW 8 39 99.7
Severn Trent Water Frankton Brook FRANKTON PPG STN - STORM O/F 7 36 99.1
Severn Trent Water Claverdon Brook HATTON SEW.PPG.STN- STORM/EMERG O/F 4 30 99.1
Severn Trent Water River Avon CHURCH LANE RYTON PUMPING STATION 8 29 100
Severn Trent Water Thelsford Brook LIGHTHORNE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 6 28 90.8
Severn Trent Water Tysoe Brook ADJ. TYSOE STW - STM/EMERG O/F 5 14 64.6
Severn Trent Water River Stowe SOUTHAM - BANBURY ROAD CSO 7 8 100
Severn Trent Water River Dene CASTLE CRESCENT CSO 1 4 96
Severn Trent Water River Dene LITTLE KINETON CSO 3 2 100
Severn Trent Water Wagtail Brook UPPER TYSOE - SMARTS LANE SPS 5 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Leam DUNCHURCH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 1 0 99.1
Thames Water Sor Brook RATLEY WWTW 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Dene BANBURY ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Finham Brook KENILWORTH - THE CLOSE-MILL END CSO 1 0 98
Severn Trent Water River Dene SOUTHAM STREET CSO 1 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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