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English Channel polluted by sewage 690 times in 2025 - lasting 5,699 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
South West Water English Channel ILSHAM VALLEY PUMPING STATION 104 1,313 100
South West Water English Channel SEATON PUMPING STATION 67 1,071 100
South West Water English Channel BUCKLAND WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 75 953 100
South West Water English Channel THE LIZARD PUMPING STATION 54 693 99.9
South West Water English Channel MAER PUMPING STATION & TANK CSO 51 611 100
South West Water English Channel DOWNDERRY 27 305 98.6
South West Water English Channel HELLARCHER PUMPING STATION 74 245 100
South West Water English Channel CLENNON VALLEY PUMPING STATION 40 210 91.6
South West Water English Channel LIME KILN TANK CSO 83 113 100
South West Water English Channel BOLTON STREET CSO 64 78 100
South West Water English Channel CADGWITH NEW ROAD PSCSO/EO 10 66 100
South West Water English Channel POLPERRO WWTW 12 14 100
South West Water English Channel OVERSEAS ESTATE WEST PS 24 9 100
South West Water English Channel LAFLOUDER LANE PUMPING STATION 1 9 100
South West Water English Channel LITTLEGATE ROAD CSO 4 1 100
South West Water English Channel APPLETREE CSO 0 0 100
South West Water English Channel OVERSEAS ESTATE EAST PS 0 0 100
South West Water English Channel PORTLOE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 0 0 99.9

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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