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Hamble Valley

Polluted by sewage 450 times in 2024 lasting 3,961 hours

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Live data for Hamble Valley in 2026

So far this year (as of 13 Mar 2026, 13:15) there has been 3,391 hours of sewage overflows, from 34 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Hamble Valley in 2024

16 Sites polluted by Southern Water
450 sewage dumps
3,961 hours duration
That's 5.5 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Hamble Valley 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 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water River Hamble Estuary HAMBLE LANE BURSLEDON WASTEWATER PS 63 949 99.6
Southern Water River Hamble BROOK LANE PS 47 675 99.7
Southern Water Hungerford Stream HUNGERFORD BOTTOM BURSLEDON CEO 66 533 99.8
Southern Water Hook Lake NEWTOWN ROAD NEWTOWN CEO 34 475 99.9
Southern Water River Itchen POUND ROAD BURSLEDON CEO 95 437 99.7
Southern Water Badnam Creek SALTERNS LANE BURSLEDON CEO 58 356 99.8
Southern Water River Hamble BROAD OAK BOTLEY CSO 25 230 76.6
Southern Water Southampton Water HOOK PARK WPS 18 109 99.6
Southern Water River Hamble SCHOOL LANE HAMBLE CEO 20 96 99.9
Southern Water Shawfords Lake FAIRTHORNE MANOR CEO 8 49 99.6
Southern Water River Hamble CHURCH LANE BOTLEY CEO 2 13 99.7
Southern Water Southampton Water ENSIGN PARK HAMBLE CEO 1 11 99.8
Southern Water Hook Lake DIBLES ROAD WARSASH PS 1 8 99.6
Southern Water River Hamble HAMBLEWOOD BOTLEY CSO 7 7 67.6
Southern Water Southampton Water BEACH LANE NETLEY CEO 2 5 90.3
Southern Water Wildern Stream CHALICE COURT HEDGE END CEO 3 2 99.9
Southern Water To Spear Pond Gully INGLESIDE NETLEY PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Southern Water Moorgreen Stream MARLBOROUGH GARDENS HEDGE END CEO 0 0 99.8
Southern Water Southampton Water VICTORIA ROAD NETLEY CEO 0 0 99.9
Southern Water Burridge Stream WELLS CLOSE WHITELEY CEO 0 0 94.8
Southern Water Curbridge Stream WHITELEY WPS 0 0 99.5

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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