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North Dorset - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 16,078 hours in 2026 - That's 1.86 years , monitoring offline 48 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in North Dorset so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 6,798 hours , 1 offline
Feb - 7,973 hours
Mar - 1,297 hours
Apr - 8 hours , 35 offline
May - 1 hours , 10 offline
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Wessex Water HAZELBURY BRYAN STORM TANK River Lydden 61 1,387h 3m -
Wessex Water IWERNE MINSTER STORM TANK River Iwerne 58 1,254h 48m -
Wessex Water MARNHULL COMMON STORM TANK River Stour 54 1,192h 42m -
Wessex Water MAPPOWDER INLET River Lydden 52 1,146h 9m -
Wessex Water CRANBORNE HIGHER HOLWELL STORM TANK River Crane 50 1,022h -
Wessex Water MILBORNE ST ANDREW STORM TANK Bere Stream 42 973h 7m -
Wessex Water STOURTON CAUNDLE STORM TANK Caundle Brook 38 740h 57m -
Wessex Water STALBRIDGE Bibbern Brook 39 726h 21m -
Wessex Water SHILLINGSTONE STORM TANK Stour 46 703h 13m -
Wessex Water SHROTON River Iwerne 33 696h 4m -
Wessex Water TARRANT CRAWFORD STORM TANK Stour 34 676h 44m -
Wessex Water DURWESTON WATER LANE River Stour 31 642h 21m -
Wessex Water VERWOOD POTTERNE WAY River Crane 36 586h 58m -
Wessex Water STURMINSTER NEWTON OPP RIXON CLOSE STORM TANK River Stour 31 534h 51m -
Wessex Water MARNHULL SODOM LANE Chivricks Brook 34 521h 4m -
Wessex Water BOURTON SILTON STORM TANK River Stour 35 500h 34m -
Wessex Water GILLINGHAM COMMON MEAD LANE STORM TANK River Stour 35 414h -
Wessex Water LYDLINCH INLET River Lydden 39 368h 39m -
Wessex Water STURMINSTER NEWTON BULL INN River Stour 25 328h 26m -
Wessex Water SHAFTESBURY LONG CROSS Key Brook To R Stour 39 309h 36m -
Wessex Water KINGS STAG STORM TANK River Lydden 23 201h 52m -
Wessex Water MOTCOMBE TANK (PUMPED) River Lodden 21 173h 13m -
Wessex Water GILLINGHAM BUCKINGHAM ROAD River Stour 26 172h 18m -
Wessex Water BLANDFORD LANGTON ROAD (BLANDFORD NO X) River Stour 13 138h 36m -
Wessex Water STURMINSTER NEWTON OPP RIXON CLOSE INLET River Stour 16 138h 8m -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 16 118h 34m -
Wessex Water STURMINSTER NEWTON THE BRIDGE River Stour 19 117h 12m -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 8 82h 19m -
Wessex Water PUDDLETOWN PIDDLEHINTON ROAD Unknown 4 48h 22m 1 h
Wessex Water GILLINGHAM QUEEN STREET Shreen Water 10 40h 18m -
Wessex Water SHAFTESBURY GEARS MILL STORM TANK Stirchell Brook 10 30h 26m -
Wessex Water STOUR ROW Key Brook 4 24h 16m -
Wessex Water MARNHULL REED BEDS STORM TANK River Stour 7 15h 58m -
Wessex Water SUTTON WALDRON Fontmell Brook 3 12h 24m -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 1 9h 49m -
Wessex Water SHILLINGSTONE HAYWARDS BRIDGE Cookwell Brook 2 8h 6m 17 h
Wessex Water CHILD OKEFORD GOLD HILL River Stour 1 7h 10m -
Wessex Water HINTON ST MARY INLET Chivericks Brook 2 5h 18m -
Wessex Water SHAFTESBURY GEARS MILL INLET Stirchell Brook 6 4h 6m -
Wessex Water SHAFTESBURY HOLLYROOD FARM Stirchell Brook 5 2h 52m -
Wessex Water GILLINGHAM BRICKYARD LANE River Stour 1 1h 39m -
Wessex Water STALBRIDGE Bibbern Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water SHAFTESBURY NEW ROAD/ WOOLANDS LANE Fern Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water HAZELBURY BRYAN STORM TANK River Lydden 0 0h -
Wessex Water SHILLINGSTONE STORM TANK Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water VERWOOD ACACIA AVENUE Ebblake Stream Via Sws 0 0h -
Wessex Water SHAFTESBURY GEARS MILL INLET Stirchell Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water SHROTON River Iwerne 0 0h -
Wessex Water MARNHULL REED BEDS STORM TANK River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water STURMINSTER NEWTON OPP RIXON CLOSE INLET River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water MILBORNE ST ANDREW MANOR FARM Bere Stream 0 0h -
Wessex Water BLANDFORD ST MARY BOURNEMOUTH ROAD River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water SHAFTESBURY LONG CROSS Key Brook To R Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water MAPPOWDER INLET River Lydden 0 0h -
Wessex Water VERWOOD POTTERNE WAY River Crane 0 0h -
Wessex Water STOURTON CAUNDLE STORM TANK Caundle Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water SUTTON WALDRON Fontmell Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water STURMINSTER NEWTON THE BRIDGE River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water GILLINGHAM BUCKINGHAM ROAD River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water SHAFTESBURY GEARS MILL STORM TANK Stirchell Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water DURWESTON WATER LANE River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water STURMINSTER NEWTON OPP RIXON CLOSE STORM TANK River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water VERWOOD ACACIA AVENUE Ebblake Stream Via Sws 0 0h 1 h
Wessex Water MILBORNE ST ANDREW STORM TANK Bere Stream 0 0h -
Wessex Water SPETISBURY CRAWFORD BRIDGE River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water MOTCOMBE TANK (PUMPED) River Lodden 0 0h -
Wessex Water LYDLINCH INLET River Lydden 0 0h -
Wessex Water SHAFTESBURY NEW ROAD/ WOOLANDS LANE Fern Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 4 h
Wessex Water BLANDFORD LANGTON ROAD (BLANDFORD NO X) River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water PUDDLETOWN PIDDLEHINTON ROAD Unknown 0 0h -
Wessex Water TARRANT CRAWFORD STORM TANK Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water IWERNE MINSTER STORM TANK River Iwerne 0 0h -
Wessex Water BOURTON SILTON STORM TANK River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water SPETISBURY CRAWFORD BRIDGE River Stour 0 0h 9 h
Wessex Water SHILLINGSTONE HAYWARDS BRIDGE Cookwell Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water CHILD OKEFORD GOLD HILL River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water MILBORNE ST ANDREW MANOR FARM Bere Stream 0 0h -
Wessex Water GILLINGHAM COMMON MEAD LANE STORM TANK River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water GILLINGHAM BRICKYARD LANE River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water SHAFTESBURY HOLLYROOD FARM Stirchell Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water STURMINSTER NEWTON BULL INN River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water CRANBORNE HIGHER HOLWELL STORM TANK River Crane 0 0h -
Wessex Water MARNHULL SODOM LANE Chivricks Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water KINGS STAG STORM TANK River Lydden 0 0h -
Wessex Water HINTON ST MARY INLET Chivericks Brook 0 0h -
Wessex Water BLANDFORD ST MARY BOURNEMOUTH ROAD River Stour 0 0h 13 h
Wessex Water MARNHULL COMMON STORM TANK River Stour 0 0h -
Wessex Water GILLINGHAM QUEEN STREET Shreen Water 0 0h -
Wessex Water STOUR ROW Key Brook 0 0h -

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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