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Unknown polluted by sewage 552 times in 2025 - lasting 3,993 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water Unknown MAPPOWDER 62 1,002 97.7
Wessex Water Unknown PORTBURY WHARF STW 83 721 100
Wessex Water Unknown STALBRIDGE PUMPING STATION 40 399 100
Wessex Water Unknown MINEHEAD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 32 321 100
Wessex Water Unknown NEW COG MILL CSO 44 305 100
Wessex Water Unknown WEYMOUTH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 65 302 100
Wessex Water Unknown THE GREEN PUMPING STATION 14 169 100
Wessex Water Unknown MOSSES MILL CSO 2 44 146 100
Wessex Water Unknown TUNNEL PUMPING STATION 19 133 100
Wessex Water Unknown CSO AT SCOUT HUT 9 127 99.5
Wessex Water Unknown BRISTOL ROAD CSO 53 79 100
Wessex Water Unknown CURTIS ORCHARD PUMPING STATION 7 77 100
Wessex Water Unknown SEMINGTON ROAD PUMPING STATION 6 49 100
Wessex Water Unknown EBBLAKE PUMPING STATION 6 39 99.5
Wessex Water Unknown SLOWAY LANE PUMPING STATION 10 34 100
Wessex Water Unknown 7 MILL STREET CSO 44 29 95.8
Wessex Water Unknown CSO AT PRINCES BRIDGE 3 24 100
Wessex Water Unknown SEMINGTON ROUNDABOUT 2 12 100
Wessex Water Unknown MIDDLE BROOKS ROAD PUMPING STATION 3 8 98.3
Wessex Water Unknown BIFIELD ROAD CSO 4 5 97.7
Wessex Water Unknown PATFORD ST/BANK OF RIVER MARDEN CSO 1 0 100
Wessex Water Unknown CSO AT 97 HIGH STREET 1 0 100
Wessex Water Unknown BIRCHALL ROAD 0 0 100
Wessex Water Unknown CLARE STREET CSO 0 0 98.3
Wessex Water Unknown SILVER STREET 0 0 94.8
Wessex Water Unknown 8 HULSE ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Unknown DALLAS ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Unknown MOSSES MILL CSO 1 0 0 100
Wessex Water Unknown ALDRIDGE ROAD PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Unknown ACACIA AVENUE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Unknown BRIDGWATER ROAD CSO 0 0 95.3

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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