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New Forest East

Polluted by sewage 360 times in 2025 lasting 3,149 hours

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Live data for New Forest East in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 5,691 hours of sewage overflows, from 31 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for New Forest East in 2025

18 Sites polluted by Southern Water
360 sewage dumps
3,149 hours duration
That's 4.37 months. 6.9 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for New Forest East 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 %
Southern Water Bartley Water LYNDHURST WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORK 60 609 99.9
Southern Water Lymington River BOLDRE WWTW 38 520 100
Southern Water Avon Water FLEXFORD LANE SWAY WWTW 43 507 99.6
Southern Water Lymington River BROCKENHURST WWTW 62 498 100
Southern Water Bartley Water ASHDENE ROAD ASHURST CSO 48 311 84.3
Southern Water Southampton Water SLOWHILL COPSE WWTW 22 229 99.9
Southern Water Beaulieu River BEAULIEU VILLAGE WWTW 27 202 100
Southern Water Bartley Water DOWNS PARK TOTTON CEO 12 69 98.3
Southern Water Beaulieu River Estuary BEAULIEU VILLAGE PS 6 47 98.8
Southern Water Bartley Water ASHURST BRIDGE CEO 6 38 99.9
Southern Water Matley Bog Stream GREEN LANE LYNDHURST CEO 7 29 100
Southern Water Hatchet Stream EAST BOLDRE S.T.W. 6 29 100
Southern Water Dark Water WEST COMMON ROAD FAWLEY CEO 13 23 100
Southern Water Southampton Water ASHLETT CREEK WWTW 2 15 99.9
Southern Water Beaulieu River Via A Stream LYNDHURST GOLF CLUB CEO 3 13 100
Southern Water Lymington River BRIDGE ROAD LYMINGTON CSO 1 0 99.7
Southern Water Southampton Water ALEXANDRA ROAD HYTHE CSO 3 0 100
Southern Water Southampton Water TATES COPSE PS 1 0 99.9
Southern Water Pollards Moor Stream POLLARDS MOOR CADNAM CEO 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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