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River Arrow polluted by sewage 157 times in 2025 - lasting 1,007 hours

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Totals for River Arrow in 2025
9 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
157 sewage dumps
1,007 h duration
That's 1.4 months. 3 times a week, on average
Constituencies along River Arrow

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Arrow ALCESTER (OVERSLEY GREEN) STW 36 415 99.75
Severn Trent Water River Arrow ALVECHURCH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 28 233 97.8
Severn Trent Water River Arrow SPERNAL (REDDITCH) STW 22 210 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Arrow RADFORD ROAD CSO 31 63 100
Severn Trent Water River Arrow KINGS COUGHTON -BIRMINGHAM ROAD SPS 6 38 100
Severn Trent Water River Arrow BIDFORD ON AVON STW 6 29 97.1
Severn Trent Water River Arrow BITTELL ROAD-HEWELL RD CSO 23 12 96.5
Severn Trent Water River Arrow ORCHARD PUMPING STATION (SPS) 1 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Arrow CASTLE ROAD CSO 4 1 82.3

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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