Christchurch

Polluted by sewage 236 times in 2024 lasting 1,313 hours

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Live data for Christchurch in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:30 AM) there has been 192 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Christchurch in 2024

15 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
236 sewage dumps
1,313 hours duration
That's 1.82 months. 4.5 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Christchurch, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Christchurch in 2024. 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 constituency all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water River Avon CHRISTCHURCH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 35 470 100
Wessex Water Moors River CRAIGSIDE PUMPING STATION 29 157 100
Wessex Water River Stour CHURCH LANE PUMPING STATION 32 156 96.3
Wessex Water River Stour HOLDENHURST STW 34 116 100
Wessex Water Lower River Stour PALMERSFORD STW 18 104 100
Wessex Water River Stour COOPER DEAN COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 33 80 99.8
Wessex Water Uddens Water AMEYSFORD ROAD PUMPING STATION 20 67 99.9
Wessex Water Moors River Via Sws ST LEONARDS FOREST EDGE DRIVE PS 12 66 99.7
Wessex Water Uddens Water PENNINGTON COPSE PUMPING STATION 4 33 100
Wessex Water Clockhouse Stream WILTSHIRE GARDENS PS 7 21 100
Wessex Water Moors River WAYSIDE ROAD PUMPING STATION 4 20 99.6
Wessex Water Moors River GOLF LINKS ROAD PS 3 9 100
Wessex Water Uddens Water TRICKETT'S CROSS PUMPING STATION 2 8 100
Wessex Water Unknown ALDRIDGE ROAD PUMPING STATION 1 0 99.1
Wessex Water River Stour ASHLEY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 2 0 99.8
Wessex Water Clockhouse Stream STONY LANE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Mude MUDEFORD GARDENS PS 0 0 100
Wessex Water Moors River DUGDELL CLOSE PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.9
Wessex Water Moors River THAMES CLOSE PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.4
Wessex Water Uddens Water CEDAR WAY PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.1

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. This 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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