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River Yeo polluted by sewage 531 times in 2025 - lasting 5,804 hours

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Totals for River Yeo in 2025
17 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
531 sewage dumps
5,804 h duration
That's 8.06 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water River Yeo HALSTOCK WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 82 1,423 99.8
Wessex Water River Yeo POYNTINGTON WATER RECYLCING CENTRE 53 726 100
Wessex Water River Yeo MARSTON MAGNA PUMPING STATION 37 676 100
Wessex Water River Yeo SHERBORNE WWTW 65 553 97.95
Wessex Water River Yeo LIMINGTON PUMPING STATION 37 534 100
Wessex Water River Yeo ILCHESTER WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 34 502 95.2
Wessex Water River Yeo YEOVILTON WEIR PUMPING STATION 50 483 100
Wessex Water River Yeo SANDFORD ORCAS WRC 31 352 100
Wessex Water River Yeo YEOVIL (PEN MILL) WWTW 29 280 100
Wessex Water River Yeo FROGLANDS PUMPING STATION 38 82 100
Wessex Water River Yeo MUDFORD PUMPING STATION 11 76 100
Wessex Water River Yeo ILCHESTER PUMPING STATION 6 75 100
Wessex Water River Yeo GOLDCROFT COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 40 16 95.6
Wessex Water River Yeo MILL LANE PUMPING STATION 3 15 100
Wessex Water River Yeo ABBEY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 11 3 100
Wessex Water River Yeo PRESTON GROVE CSO 3 1 100
Wessex Water River Yeo PRESTON GROVE CSO 1 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.

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