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Christchurch

Polluted by sewage 95 times in 2025 lasting 422 hours

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Live data for Christchurch in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,532 hours of sewage overflows, from 46 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Christchurch in 2025

14 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
95 sewage dumps
422 hours duration
That's 2.51 weeks. 1.8 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Christchurch in 2025. 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water Moors River CRAIGSIDE PUMPING STATION 20 76 99.9
Wessex Water River Stour CHURCH LANE PUMPING STATION 11 63 88.2
Wessex Water Uddens Water AMEYSFORD ROAD PUMPING STATION 11 58 100
Wessex Water River Avon CHRISTCHURCH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 5 47 100
Wessex Water Moors River Via Sws ST LEONARDS FOREST EDGE DRIVE PS 7 36 99.4
Wessex Water River Stour COOPER DEAN COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 12 29 97.7
Wessex Water Lower River Stour PALMERSFORD STW 2 25 100
Wessex Water Moors River WAYSIDE ROAD PUMPING STATION 5 21 100
Wessex Water River Stour HOLDENHURST STW 4 19 100
Wessex Water Uddens Water TRICKETT'S CROSS PUMPING STATION 3 15 100
Wessex Water Clockhouse Stream WILTSHIRE GARDENS PS 7 14 100
Wessex Water Uddens Water PENNINGTON COPSE PUMPING STATION 3 9 100
Wessex Water Moors River GOLF LINKS ROAD PS 4 4 100
Wessex Water River Stour ASHLEY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 99.8
Wessex Water Unknown ALDRIDGE ROAD PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Uddens Water CEDAR WAY PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Moors River DUGDELL CLOSE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Mude MUDEFORD GARDENS PS 0 0 100
Wessex Water Clockhouse Stream STONY LANE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Moors River THAMES CLOSE PUMPING STATION 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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