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North Dorset was polluted by sewage 1,919 times in 2023
lasting 24,568 hours - that's 2.84 years!

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Totals for North Dorset in 2023
36 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
1,919 sewage dumps
24,568 h duration
That's 2.84 years! On average 5.3 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North Dorset in 2023. 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 0 of the total 41 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water Unknown MAPPOWDER 127 2,668 100
Wessex Water River Stour BOURTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 159 2,463 100
Wessex Water River Crane CRANBORNE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 106 2,287 99.1
Wessex Water River Stour MARNHULL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 122 2,259 100
Wessex Water River Iwerne IWERNE MINSTER WRC 107 2,046 100
Wessex Water River Lydden HAZELBURY BRYAN 102 1,959 99.4
Wessex Water Stour SHILLINGSTONE STW 131 1,822 99.7
Wessex Water Caundle Brook STOURTON CAUNDLE WRC 67 1,330 100
Wessex Water Bere Stream MILBORNE ST.ANDREW 46 1,028 100
Wessex Water River Stour GILLINGHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 90 827 99.9
Wessex Water Stour TARRANT CRAWFORD STW 41 817 100
Wessex Water River Stour WATER LANE PUMPING STATION 72 558 100
Wessex Water River Lydden LYDLINCH WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 86 533 99.6
Wessex Water Unknown STALBRIDGE PUMPING STATION 66 519 100
Wessex Water Chivricks Brook SODOM LANE PUMPING STATION 50 403 100
Wessex Water River Stour STURMINSTER NEWTON WRC 50 346 84.65
Wessex Water River Lydden KING'S STAG WWTW 36 332 96.9
Wessex Water River Crane POTTERNE WAY PUMPING STATION 56 299 100
Wessex Water Unknown EBBLAKE PUMPING STATION 22 290 100
Wessex Water River Lodden MOTCOMBE ATTENUATION TANK 29 278 100
Wessex Water Key Brook To R Stour LONG CROSS PUMPING STATION 69 248 100
Wessex Water River Stour BULL INN CSO 27 228 100
Wessex Water River Iwerne SHROTON PUMPING STATION 17 226 99.9
Wessex Water River Stour BUCKINGHAM ROAD PUMPING STATION 42 213 100
Wessex Water River Stour THE BRIDGE PS 19 128 100
Wessex Water River Stour LANGTON ROAD PUMPING STATION 14 102 99.8
Wessex Water Bere Stream MILBORNE ST ANDREW PS 7 102 98.9
Wessex Water Key Brook STOUR ROW PUMPING STATION 10 62 100
Wessex Water Stirchell Brook SHAFTESBURY WRC 54 58 99.85
Wessex Water Shreen Water QUEEN STREET CSO 11 52 71.4
Wessex Water River Stour MARNHULL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 4 38 100
Wessex Water Chivericks Brook HINTON ST.MARY WATER RECYCLING 53 22 99.8
Wessex Water Stirchell Brook HOLLYROOD FARM CSO 23 8 89.8
Wessex Water River Stour BOURNEMOUTH ROAD PUMPING STATION 2 1 100
Wessex Water Fern Brook NEW ROAD CSO 1 0 99.4
Wessex Water River Stour CHILD OKEFORD PS 1 0 100
Wessex Water Cookwell Brook HAYWARDS BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.8
Wessex Water River Stour CRAWFORD BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.9
Wessex Water Unknown ACACIA AVENUE PUMPING STATION 0 0 79.5
Wessex Water River Stour BRICKYARD LANE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Fontmell Brook SUTTON WALDRON PUMPING STATION 0 0 100

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. This 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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