North Dorset was polluted by sewage 2,052 times in 2023
lasting 25,281 hours - that's 2.93 years!

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Totals for North Dorset in 2023

39 Sites polluted by Wessex Water

2,052 sewage dumps
25,281 h duration

That's 2.93 years! On average 5.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in North Dorset

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 44 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	Caundle Brook	GLANVILLES WOOTTON WATER RECYCLING	113	629	76.9
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	Uddens Water	HOLT SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	16	58	100
Wessex Water	Shreen Water	QUEEN STREET CSO	11	52	71.4
Wessex Water	River Stour	MARNHULL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	4	38	100
Wessex Water	Uddens Water	GAUNTS COMMON STW	4	24	99
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	Fontmell Brook	SUTTON WALDRON PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	CRAWFORD BRIDGE PUMPING STATION	0	0	99.9
Wessex Water	River Stour	BRICKYARD LANE PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Wessex Water	Unknown	ACACIA AVENUE PUMPING STATION	0	0	79.5
Wessex Water	Cookwell Brook	HAYWARDS BRIDGE PUMPING STATION	0	0	99.8

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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