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River Avon polluted by sewage 546 times in 2025 - lasting 3,361 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Avon 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 Avon TWYNING SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 49 533 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon BUBBENHALL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 28 399 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon LOWER MOOR STW 18 312 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon WARWICK-LONGBRIDGE STW 29 214 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon NASEBY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 54 194 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon STRATFORD(MILCOTE) STW 26 193 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Avon WYRE ROAD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 21 187 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon EVESHAM/HAMPTON PARKS STW 20 183 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Avon WELFORD ON AVON CSO 30 174 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon PADDOCK LANE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 20 142 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon RUGBY NEWBOLD STW 18 138 99.5
Severn Trent Water River Avon DEFFORD ROAD SPS 34 117 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Avon BLIND LANE/AVON STREET JCN SSO 43 71 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon MORETON PADDOX STW 24 67 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Avon ABBEY ROAD - EVESHAM SPS 10 66 99.4
Severn Trent Water River Avon HAMPTON SYPHON 6 57 98.8
Severn Trent Water River Avon ADJACENT NO. 177 EVESHAM ROAD CSO 12 55 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Avon CHURCH LAWFORD STW 4 52 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon BATTLETON SYPHON 17 47 99.1
Severn Trent Water River Avon SO HIGH ST AND SO PLECK 18 34 99.63
Severn Trent Water River Avon CHURCH LANE RYTON PUMPING STATION 8 29 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon NEWBOLD-AVON LANE CSO 11 18 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon MORETONS LANE CSO 4 17 98.7
Severn Trent Water River Avon BARTON ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 4 16 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon CHERRY ORCHARD PUMPING STATION 2 8 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon THE NAVIGATION INN CSO 9 8 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Avon BANBURY ROAD/DALE AVENUE CSO 7 7 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon TIDDINGTON ROAD CSO 3 5 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon WELFORD STW 1 2 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Avon LOWER LEYS CSO 9 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon SHAWELL SEWAGE TREAMENT WORKS 3 1 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Avon BURFORD ROAD CSO 4 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon EVESHAM SPS 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon LONG LAWFORD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon WOOD STREET - KIMBERLEY ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon CATTHORPE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Avon BRIDGEWAY CSO 0 0 97.8
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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