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Mid Dorset and North Poole - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 3,989 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 477 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Mid Dorset and North Poole so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 2,042 hours , 1 offline
Feb - 1,898 hours , 0 offline
Mar - 48 hours , 73 offline
Apr - 0 hours , 398 offline
May - 0 hours , 4 offline
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 48 1,054h 29m -
Wessex Water LYTCHETT MATRAVERS BULBURY LANE Sherford River 40 663h 12m -
Wessex Water WIMBORNE BROOK ROAD STORM TANK River Stour 38 554h 20m -
Wessex Water CORFE MULLEN DORCHESTER ROAD STORM TANK River Stour 35 459h 58m -
Wessex Water LYTCHETT MINSTER LYTCHETT BAY STORM TANK Lytchett Bay 29 354h 34m -
Wessex Water WIMBORNE HAYES LANE COLEHILL River Stour 24 161h 48m -
Wessex Water HOLT POND HEAD STORM TANK Uddens Water 13 94h 55m -
Wessex Water UPTON MOORLANDS WAY Lytchett Bay 15 75h 12m -
Wessex Water GAUNTS COMMON STORM TANK Uddens Water 19 72h 34m -
Wessex Water WAREHAM KEYSWORTH DRIVE STORM TANK Tidal River Piddle 17 55h 14m -
Wessex Water CORFE MULLEN RUSHCOMBE BOTTOM Rushcombe Stream 13 53h 54m -
Wessex Water STOBOROUGH KINGS ARMS River Frome 15 45h 37m -
Wessex Water CANFORD MAGNA CANFORD MAIN River Stour 6 43h 14m -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 7 41h 22m -
Wessex Water POOLE WOOD LANE Freshwater 12 39h 24m -
Wessex Water CORFE MULLEN PARDYS HILL River Stour 8 38h 21m -
Wessex Water WAREHAM NORTH BRIDGE Unknown 4 37h 27m -
Wessex Water HOLTON HEATH HOLTON HEATH SEWAGE PUMPING STATION Poole Harbour 6 35h 32m -
Wessex Water WAREHAM SOUTH EAST River Frome 8 23h 6m -
Wessex Water WIMBORNE BROOK ROAD NO X River Stour 4 22h 24m 0 h
Wessex Water WIMBORNE PILFORD HEATH Uddens Water 6 18h 46m -
Wessex Water POOLE FAIRVIEW ROAD River Stour 5 11h 50m -
Wessex Water STOBOROUGH RIDGE River Frome 2 11h 17m -
Wessex Water WAREHAM ABBOTTS QUAY River Frome 6 10h 12m -
Wessex Water WAREHAM WEST MILL CRESCENT River Piddle 1 4h 22m -
Wessex Water POOLE MAGNA ROAD Knighton Stream 2 3h 22m -
Wessex Water WAREHAM SANDFORD LANE River Piddle 2 2h 56m -
Wessex Water LYTCHETT MATRAVERS GLEBE ROAD Sherford River 1 0h 27m -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 2 h
Wessex Water POOLE MAGNA ROAD Knighton Stream 0 0h -
Wessex Water BLACKHEATH STORM TANK Sherford River 0 0h -
Wessex Water CORFE MULLEN DORCHESTER ROAD STORM TANK River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water BLACKHEATH STORM TANK Sherford River 0 0h 7 h
Wessex Water CORFE MULLEN PARDYS HILL River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water LYTCHETT MINSTER LYTCHETT BAY STORM TANK Lytchett Bay 0 0h -
Wessex Water LYTCHETT MATRAVERS BULBURY LANE Sherford River 0 0h -
Wessex Water POOLE CANFORD HEATH ROAD Hatch Pond Stream 0 0h -
Wessex Water STOBOROUGH RIDGE River Frome 0 0h -
Wessex Water WIMBORNE BROOK ROAD NO X River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water POOLE WOOD LANE Freshwater 0 0h -
Wessex Water WIMBORNE POOLE ROAD River Allen 0 0h -
Wessex Water WIMBORNE BROOK ROAD STORM TANK River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water STOBOROUGH KINGS ARMS River Frome 0 0h -
Wessex Water WAREHAM WEST MILL CRESCENT River Piddle 0 0h -
Wessex Water POOLE CANFORD HEATH ROAD Hatch Pond Stream 0 0h 441 h
Wessex Water UPTON FRENCHS FARM Sherford River 0 0h -
Wessex Water HOLTON HEATH HOLTON HEATH SEWAGE PUMPING STATION Poole Harbour 0 0h -
Wessex Water CANFORD MAGNA CANFORD MAIN River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water WIMBORNE PILFORD HEATH Uddens Water 0 0h -
Wessex Water WAREHAM KEYSWORTH DRIVE STORM TANK Tidal River Piddle 0 0h -
Wessex Water LYTCHETT MATRAVERS GLEBE ROAD Sherford River 0 0h -
Wessex Water MORDEN COCK AND BOTTLE Sherford River 0 0h 17 h
Wessex Water UPTON MOORLANDS WAY Lytchett Bay 0 0h -
Wessex Water WIMBORNE POOLE ROAD River Allen 0 0h -
Wessex Water CORFE MULLEN RUSHCOMBE BOTTOM Rushcombe Stream 0 0h -
Wessex Water WIMBORNE HAYES LANE COLEHILL River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water WAREHAM SANDFORD LANE River Piddle 0 0h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 4 h
Wessex Water GAUNTS COMMON STORM TANK Uddens Water 0 0h -
Wessex Water WAREHAM SOUTH EAST River Frome 0 0h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 3 h
Wessex Water POOLE FAIRVIEW ROAD River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water HOLT POND HEAD STORM TANK Uddens Water 0 0h -
Wessex Water WAREHAM NORTH BRIDGE Unknown 0 0h -
Wessex Water WAREHAM ABBOTTS QUAY River Frome 0 0h -

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.