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River Frome Via Sws polluted by sewage 53 times in 2025 - lasting 34 hours

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Totals for River Frome Via Sws in 2025
7 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
53 sewage dumps
34 h duration
That's 1.42 days. 1 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Frome Via Sws in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws WHATCOMBE ROAD CSO 31 10 100
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws SHEPPARD ROAD CSO 2 10 100
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws GREENBANK VIEW CSO 9 6 98
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws BROADMEAD CSO 2 4 97.3
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws CSO AT TOP OF SOUTH WALKS 2 1 97.7
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws 8 MARKET PLACE CSO 6 1 100
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws ST JAMES BARTON CSO 1 0 97.8
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws CHRISTMAS STEPS CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws LEWINS MEAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws GORDON ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws PRITCHARD STREET CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws 14 DOWNLEAZE 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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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