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New Forest West

Polluted by sewage 205 times in 2025 lasting 1,624 hours

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Live data for New Forest West in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 5,249 hours of sewage overflows, from 32 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for New Forest West in 2025

13 Sites polluted by Southern Water Wessex Water
205 sewage dumps
1,624 hours duration
That's 2.26 months. 3.9 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 West 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 Solent PENNINGTON WWTW 67 928 100
Wessex Water Hampshire Avon River RINGWOOD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 23 324 100
Wessex Water Hampshire Avon FORDINGBRIDGE WRC 21 217 100
Southern Water Lymore Stream LYMORE (NORTHBROOK COTTAGE) CSO 26 100 99.7
Wessex Water River Avon FORDINGBRIDGE CSO 31 25 100
Southern Water English Channel BECTON LANE WPS 4 13 100
Southern Water Lymington River HIGH STREET LYMINGTON CSO 21 10 99.7
Southern Water Lymore Stream SKY END LANE HORDLE CSO 2 1 95.1
Southern Water Lymington River STATION STREET LYMINGTON NO1 CSO 3 1 99.7
Southern Water Lymington River Estuary LYMINGTON SLIPWAY PENNINGTON CSO 2 0 99.7
Southern Water Becton Bunny FRIARS WALK BARTON-ON-SEA CSO 2 0 99.4
Southern Water Buckland Stream SOUTHERN ROAD PENNINGTON CSO 2 0 99.7
Southern Water Beckton Bunny SUNNYFIELD ROAD BARTON-ON-SEA CSO 1 0 93.7

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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