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Stratford-on-Avon

Polluted by sewage 578 times in 2025 lasting 4,452 hours

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Live data for Stratford-on-Avon in 2026

So far this year (as of 15 Apr 2026, 03:30) there has been 11,863 hours of sewage overflows, from 91 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s - that's 1.37 years!

Totals for Stratford-on-Avon in 2025

32 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
578 sewage dumps
4,452 hours duration
That's 6.18 months. On average 1.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Stratford-on-Avon 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 Fosse Way Brook ILMINGTON STW 54 903 96.8
Severn Trent Water River Stour CHERINGTON STW 44 567 98.7
Severn Trent Water Spring Brook EARLSWOOD (WOOD END) SEWAGE PS 36 510 50
Severn Trent Water River Arrow ALCESTER (OVERSLEY GREEN) STW 36 415 99.75
Severn Trent Water River Stour CAUDLEWELL PUMPING STATION 29 303 98.7
Severn Trent Water River Arrow SPERNAL (REDDITCH) STW 22 210 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Avon STRATFORD(MILCOTE) STW 26 193 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Avon WELFORD ON AVON CSO 30 174 100
Severn Trent Water River Alne WOOTTON WAWEN WWTW 20 148 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon PADDOCK LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 20 142 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour MILL HOUSE PUMPING STATION 17 119 100
Severn Trent Water Sherbourne Brook SNITTERFIELD STW 19 91 99.9
Severn Trent Water Bell Brook LODGE FARM DRIVE CSO 13 72 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour MILL LANE PUMPING STATION 11 71 98.3
Severn Trent Water Gran Brook LONG MARSTON TPS 8 69 92.4
Severn Trent Water Noleham Brook DORSINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 16 56 99.6
Severn Trent Water River Avon ADJACENT NO. 177 EVESHAM ROAD CSO 12 55 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Alne BEARLEY STW 26 54 97.2
Severn Trent Water River Dene ETTINGTON SEWAGE WORKS 41 47 100
Severn Trent Water Shottery Brook ALCESTER ROAD CSO 25 39 100
Severn Trent Water River Arrow KINGS COUGHTON -BIRMINGHAM ROAD SPS 6 38 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon SO HIGH ST AND SO PLECK 18 34 99.63
Severn Trent Water Shottery Brook COTTAGE LANE CSO 12 32 100
Severn Trent Water River Arrow BIDFORD ON AVON STW 6 29 97.1
Severn Trent Water Rush Brook SHIPSTON ROAD CSO 7 24 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon BARTON ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 4 16 100
Severn Trent Water Ban Brook STATION ROAD CSO 2 8 96.6
Severn Trent Water River Avon BANBURY ROAD/DALE AVENUE CSO 7 7 100
Severn Trent Water River Alne DANZEY GREEN SPS - STORM/EMERG 0/F 3 7 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon TIDDINGTON ROAD CSO 3 5 100
Severn Trent Water River Arrow CASTLE ROAD CSO 4 1 82.3
Severn Trent Water Local Ditch CHURCH ROAD 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon BRIDGEWAY CSO 0 0 97.8
Severn Trent Water Shottery Brook CHURCH ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon MAIN STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERLOW 0 0 99
Severn Trent Water River Avon MERRYFIELDS FARM SPS 0 0 98

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.

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