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Polluted by sewage 413 times in 2024 lasting 816 hours
So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:00 AM) there has been 4,588 hours of sewage overflows
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Smethwick, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Smethwick 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 | York Road Brook | STATION ROAD CSO | 81 | 364 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | York Road Brook | CAKEMORE RD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 123 | 311 | 98.3 |
| Severn Trent Water | Chad Brook | ANDERSON ROAD CSO | 33 | 39 | 87.5 |
| Severn Trent Water | Birmingham Canal | HALFORDS LANE/BRASSHOUSE LANE CSO | 40 | 18 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Hockley Brook | RABONE LANE (NO.1) CSO | 19 | 14 | 97 |
| Severn Trent Water | River Tame | CSO AT FORMER TITFORD PS | 11 | 13 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Bourn Brook | STANLEY ROAD CSO | 28 | 11 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Hockley Brook | BALDWIN STREET CSO | 16 | 8 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Birmingham Canal | CEMETERY RD-VICTORIA RD CSO | 10 | 7 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Hockley Brook | BOOTH STREET CSO | 14 | 6 | 99.7 |
| Severn Trent Water | Hockley Brook | CAPE HILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 14 | 5 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Stoney Brook Via Sws | LONDONDERRY LANE CSO | 9 | 5 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Thimblemill Brook | HIGH STREET (NO.2) CSO | 4 | 4 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Hockley Brook | GROVE STREET CSO | 6 | 3 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Thimblemill Brook | STANHOPE ROAD/DAVISON ROAD JCT CSO | 4 | 1 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Stony Lane Brook | STONY LANE CSO | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Hockley Brook | CORNWALL ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Hockley Brook | DOWNING STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Thimblemill Brook | THIMBLEMILL ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Birmingham Canal | SMETHWICK DORSET RD-WILSON RD CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Severn Trent Water | Hockley Brook | RABONE LANE (NO.2) CSO | 0 | 0 | 96.5 |
| Severn Trent Water | Hockley Brook | OFF PERROTT STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 96.4 |
| Severn Trent Water | Thimblemill Brook | NORMAN ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 0 | 0 | 100 |
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. This uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.
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