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Cradley Heath

Polluted by sewage 171 times in 2025 lasting 993 hours

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Totals for Cradley Heath in 2025

9 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
171 sewage dumps
993 hours duration
That's 1.38 months. 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 Cradley Heath 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 place 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 River Stour BELLE VALE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 49 698 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour CRADLEY HEATH CSO 5 88 100
Severn Trent Water River Tame LONG LANE STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 36 84 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour CHESTER ROAD (CRADLEY ROAD 2) CSO 31 74 91.7
Severn Trent Water River Stour JAMES SCOTT ROAD CSO 36 43 99.2
Severn Trent Water Mousesweet Brook MILDRED ROAD CSO 4 1 99.9
Severn Trent Water Black Brook COPPICE LANE CSO 6 1 99.3
Severn Trent Water Mousesweet Brook NEWTOWN LANE CSO 3 0 98.4
Severn Trent Water York Road Brook STATION ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water Mousesweet Brook CRADLEY ROAD 1 CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Mousesweet Brook OLD HILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water Mousesweet Brook OLD HILL TRINITY CSO 0 0 97.1
Severn Trent Water Mousesweet Brook GAWNE LANE CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour HAYES LANE CSO 0 0 98.3
Severn Trent Water Mousesweet Brook REDDAL HILL 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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