New Forest West

Polluted by sewage 499 times in 2024 lasting 6,134 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for New Forest West in 2025

So far this year (as of Nov 29, 2025, 3:30 AM) there has been 2,012 hours of sewage overflows, from 31 CSOs

Totals for New Forest West in 2024

9 Sites polluted by Southern Water, Wessex Water
499 sewage dumps
6,134 hours duration
That's 8.52 months. On average 1.4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for New Forest West in 2024. 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 1 of the total 13 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Solent PENNINGTON WWTW 132 2,083 100
Wessex Water Hampshire Avon River RINGWOOD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 81 1,339 98.8
Southern Water Lymore Stream LYMORE (NORTHBROOK COTTAGE) CSO 84 1,315 99.7
Wessex Water River Avon FORDINGBRIDGE CSO 92 1,118 95.4
Wessex Water Hampshire Avon FORDINGBRIDGE WRC 61 212 100
Southern Water Lymington River HIGH STREET LYMINGTON CSO 36 36 99.7
Southern Water English Channel BECTON LANE WPS 5 21 99.6
Southern Water Lymington River Estuary LYMINGTON SLIPWAY PENNINGTON CSO 3 6 99.7
Southern Water Buckland Stream SOUTHERN ROAD PENNINGTON CSO 5 0 55.7
Southern Water Becton Bunny FRIARS WALK BARTON-ON-SEA CSO 0 0 93.2
Southern Water Lymore Stream SKY END LANE HORDLE CSO 0 0 38.8
Southern Water Lymington River STATION STREET LYMINGTON NO1 CSO 0 0 90.8
Southern Water Beckton Bunny SUNNYFIELD ROAD BARTON-ON-SEA CSO 0 0 63

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.

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