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River Stour polluted by sewage 618 times in 2025 - lasting 2,782 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Stour 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 Stour BELLE VALE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 49 698 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour CHERINGTON STW 44 567 98.7
Severn Trent Water River Stour KIDDERMINSTER OLDINGTON STW 45 380 73.8
Severn Trent Water River Stour CAUDLEWELL PUMPING STATION 29 303 98.7
Severn Trent Water River Stour MILL HOUSE PUMPING STATION 17 119 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour ROUNDHILL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WRKS 21 114 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour MILL LANE SPS 73 113 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour CRADLEY HEATH CSO 5 88 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour CHESTER ROAD (CRADLEY ROAD 2) CSO 31 74 91.7
Severn Trent Water River Stour MILL LANE PUMPING STATION 11 71 98.3
Severn Trent Water River Stour JAMES SCOTT ROAD CSO 36 43 99.2
Severn Trent Water River Stour WORCESTER ROAD CSO 36 29 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour HIGH STREET STORM OVERFLOW 17 27 99.7
Severn Trent Water River Stour LOWER HIGH STREET CSO 47 27 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour BROMSGROVE ROAD CSO 16 24 97.9
Severn Trent Water River Stour GREEN STREET CSO 30 22 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour CAUNSALL ROAD PUMPING STATION (SPS) 17 19 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour ENVILLE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 2 13 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour POTTERS CROSS CSO 21 11 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour KIDDERMINSTER MILL STREET CSO 10 7 94
Severn Trent Water River Stour STOURPORT ROAD CSO 9 4 99.9
Severn Trent Water River Stour PARK BUTTS CSO 12 4 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Stour BLACKWELL STREET CSO 6 3 99.4
Severn Trent Water River Stour STOUR VALE ROAD CSO 3 2 88.7
Severn Trent Water River Stour THE HAYES CSO 9 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour VALLEY ROAD CSO 4 2 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour DINGLE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 12 1 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour STOURPORT PUMPING STATION 2 1 51.9
Severn Trent Water River Stour DRAKELOW - SLADD LANE (WORCS) SPS 1 0 98.4
Severn Trent Water River Stour STOURPORT ROAD SYPHON CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour KINGSWAY PUMPING STATION 1 0 98.9
Severn Trent Water River Stour KIDDERMINSTER - SUTTON RD CSO 1 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour KINVER STW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour BIRCH DRIVE CSO 0 0 17.4
Severn Trent Water River Stour BROOK ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour CHARLES ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour HAYES LANE CSO 0 0 98.3
Severn Trent Water River Stour PEBBLE CLOSE CSO 0 0 88
Severn Trent Water River Stour STOURBRIDGE ROAD STORM OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour CHURCH STREET CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour COVENTRY STREET ISLAND CSO 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour HOOBROOK SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Severn Trent Water River Stour KIDDERMINSTER BEWDLEY 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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