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Rea Brook polluted by sewage 270 times in 2025 - lasting 1,307 hours

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Totals for Rea Brook in 2025
12 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
270 sewage dumps
1,307 h duration
That's 1.82 months. 5.2 times a week, on average
Constituencies along Rea Brook
Places along Rea Brook

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rea Brook in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water Rea Brook PONTESBURY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 53 503 99.8
Severn Trent Water Rea Brook HOOKAGATE PUMPING STATION 24 220 100
Severn Trent Water Rea Brook WEIR RD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 14 128 99.8
Severn Trent Water Rea Brook STATION ROAD CSO 42 125 95.5
Severn Trent Water Rea Brook THE ROCKS COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 14 85 100
Severn Trent Water Rea Brook STORM O/F ADJ TO GROVE PUMPING STN 14 81 98.6
Severn Trent Water Rea Brook OLD COLEHAM COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 27 50 100
Severn Trent Water Rea Brook CARADOC VIEW PUMPING STATION 9 44 100
Severn Trent Water Rea Brook ABBEY FOREGATE CSO 26 28 100
Severn Trent Water Rea Brook SHARP STONES LANE CSO 17 21 100
Severn Trent Water Rea Brook OLD COLEHAM 1 CSO 24 17 99.7
Severn Trent Water Rea Brook THE COLUMN COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 6 1 100
Severn Trent Water Rea Brook BROOK ROAD / ABBEY FORGATE CSO 0 0 0

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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