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Smethwick

Polluted by sewage 171 times in 2025 lasting 236 hours

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Live data for Smethwick in 2026

So far this year (as of 15 Apr 2026, 05:30) there has been 198 hours of sewage overflows, from 46 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Smethwick in 2025

18 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
171 sewage dumps
236 hours duration
That's 1.4 weeks. 3.3 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Smethwick 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s 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 CAKEMORE RD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 17 63 57.8
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook RABONE LANE (NO.1) CSO 17 23 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame CSO AT FORMER TITFORD PS 7 20 100
Severn Trent Water Stoney Brook Via Sws LONDONDERRY LANE CSO 16 19 99.4
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook BALDWIN STREET CSO 11 19 92.8
Severn Trent Water Bourn Brook STANLEY ROAD CSO 26 16 100
Severn Trent Water Thimblemill Brook HIGH STREET (NO.2) CSO 5 15 100
Severn Trent Water Chad Brook ANDERSON ROAD CSO 20 13 98.9
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook CAPE HILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 10 12 98
Severn Trent Water Birmingham Canal CEMETERY RD-VICTORIA RD CSO 9 11 99.5
Severn Trent Water Thimblemill Brook STANHOPE ROAD/DAVISON ROAD JCT CSO 9 8 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook BOOTH STREET CSO 9 5 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook GROVE STREET CSO 3 3 100
Severn Trent Water Birmingham Canal HALFORDS LANE/BRASSHOUSE LANE CSO 6 2 86.8
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook DOWNING STREET CSO 1 1 100
Severn Trent Water Thimblemill Brook NORMAN ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 3 0 100
Severn Trent Water York Road Brook STATION ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Stony Lane Brook STONY LANE CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook CORNWALL ROAD CSO 0 0 99.9
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook OFF PERROTT STREET CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Hockley Brook RABONE LANE (NO.2) CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Birmingham Canal SMETHWICK DORSET RD-WILSON RD CSO 0 0 98.2
Severn Trent Water Thimblemill Brook THIMBLEMILL ROAD CSO 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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