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Christchurch was polluted by sewage 266 times in 2023
lasting 2,015 hours

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Totals for Christchurch in 2023

16 Sites polluted by Wessex Water

266 sewage dumps
2,015 h duration

That's 2.8 months. 5.1 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Christchurch

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Christchurch in 2023. 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 0 of the total 20 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Wessex Water	River Avon	CHRISTCHURCH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	56	922	100
Wessex Water	Lower River Stour	PALMERSFORD STW	23	242	98.9
Wessex Water	River Stour	CHURCH LANE PUMPING STATION	30	236	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	HOLDENHURST STW	32	124	100
Wessex Water	Moors River Via Sws	ST LEONARDS FOREST EDGE DRIVE PS	17	94	93.7
Wessex Water	River Stour	COOPER DEAN COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	28	84	99.8
Wessex Water	Uddens Water	PENNINGTON COPSE PUMPING STATION	10	80	100
Wessex Water	Uddens Water	AMEYSFORD ROAD PUMPING STATION	21	73	100
Wessex Water	Moors River	WAYSIDE ROAD PUMPING STATION	11	50	99.9
Wessex Water	Clockhouse Stream	WILTSHIRE GARDENS PS	15	33	99.7
Wessex Water	Moors River	CRAIGSIDE PUMPING STATION	6	28	96.8
Wessex Water	Uddens Water	TRICKETT'S CROSS PUMPING STATION	5	28	98.1
Wessex Water	Moors River	GOLF LINKS ROAD PS	5	15	100
Wessex Water	Unknown	ALDRIDGE ROAD PUMPING STATION	3	0	91.8
Wessex Water	River Stour	ASHLEY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	3	0	99.9
Wessex Water	Clockhouse Stream	STONY LANE PUMPING STATION	1	0	69.2
Wessex Water	Uddens Water	CEDAR WAY PUMPING STATION	0	0	99.7
Wessex Water	Moors River	DUGDELL CLOSE PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Wessex Water	Moors River	THAMES CLOSE PUMPING STATION	0	0	99.8
Wessex Water	River Mude	MUDEFORD GARDENS PS	0	0	98.4

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. This 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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