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Meriden and Solihull East

Polluted by sewage 238 times in 2025 lasting 2,575 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Meriden and Solihull East in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 2,758 hours of sewage overflows, from 34 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Meriden and Solihull East in 2025

11 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
238 sewage dumps
2,575 hours duration
That's 3.58 months. 4.6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Meriden and Solihull East 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 15 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 Blythe BALSALL COMMON WWTW 104 1,238 99.4
Severn Trent Water Cuttle Brook DORRIDGE - NORTON GREEN LANE SPS 31 331 100
Severn Trent Water River Blythe HAMPTON IN ARDEN - MERIDEN ROAD SPS 38 263 99.9
Severn Trent Water Eastcote Brook BARSTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 18 240 100
Severn Trent Water River Bly OLD STATION ROAD PUMPING STATION 18 227 100
Severn Trent Water River Blythe CAROL GREEN - HODGETTS LANE SPS 15 201 99
Severn Trent Water River Bly FRIDAY LANE 4 36 100
Severn Trent Water Purnell'S Brook HILLMORTON ROAD CSO 4 20 100
Severn Trent Water Purnells Brook LANGFIELD ROAD CSO 3 13 100
Severn Trent Water Cuttle Brook GRANGE ROAD CSO 2 0 99.8
Severn Trent Water Cuttle Brook WARWICK ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Yew Tree Farm Brook BENTON GREEN LANE SPS 0 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water Low Brook COLESHILL ROAD 2 CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Low Brook COLESHILL ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Hatchford Brook HOLLY LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 0

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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