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Totals for Smethwick in 2025

25 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water

264 sewage dumps

262 hours duration

That's 1.56 weeks. 5.1 times a week, on average

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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 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	Hockley Brook	LODGE ROAD NO.1 (MUSGRAVE) CSO	48	38	99.8
Severn Trent Water	River Tame	BROMFORD LANE CSO	16	26	100
Severn Trent Water	Hockley Brook	RABONE LANE (NO.1) CSO	17	23	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	Hockley Brook	HANDSWORTH - 102 BACCHUS ROAD CSO	24	16	99.6
Severn Trent Water	Hockley Brook	HANDSWORTH - NINEVEH ROAD 2 CSO	13	16	100
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	HANDSWORTH - NINEVEH ROAD 1 CSO	7	5	100
Severn Trent Water	Hockley Brook	BOOTH STREET CSO	9	5	100
Severn Trent Water	Hockley Brook	WINSON GREEN ROAD JUNCTION CSO	3	4	99.7
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	Hockley Brook	WELLINGTON ROAD/VILLIERS STREET CSO	4	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Thimblemill Brook	NORMAN ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	3	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Bourn Brook	TENNAL LANE CSO	1	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Hockley Brook	ALL SAINTS HOSPITAL 2 CSO	1	0	98.5
Severn Trent Water	Stony Lane Brook	STONY LANE CSO	1	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Hockley Brook	ALL SAINTS HOSPITAL 1 CSO	1	0	100
Severn Trent Water	Hockley Brook	WELLINGTON ST/FRANKLIN ST JCT CS0	0	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.

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