Poole

Polluted by sewage 184 times in 2024 lasting 508 hours

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Live data for Poole in 2025

So far this year (as of Nov 20, 2025, 3:45 AM) there has been 241 hours of sewage overflows, from 42 CSOs

Totals for Poole in 2024

13 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
184 sewage dumps
508 hours duration
That's 21.17 days. 3.5 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Poole 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 all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water Holes Bay POOLE E STW 21 162 99.95
Wessex Water Creekmoor Lake STANLEY GREEN ROAD CSO 52 133 100
Wessex Water Rock Lea River, Lytchett Bay TURLIN MAIN CSO 21 47 100
Wessex Water English Channel SHORE ROAD PS OVERFLOW 42 43 100
Wessex Water Holes Bay Estuarine HINCHCLIFFE ROAD CSO 15 30 100
Wessex Water Holes Bay Via Sws KENNART ROAD PUMPING STATION 8 28 99.5
Wessex Water Lytchett Bay EGMONT ROAD PS 4 19 100
Wessex Water English Channel POOLE (BRANKSOME CHINE) SEWAGE PUMP 7 16 99.4
Wessex Water Poole Harbour SANDBANKS PAVILION PUMPING STATION 5 11 99.9
Wessex Water Poole Park Boating Lake POOLE PARK CSO 6 8 99.9
Wessex Water Unknown HARKWOOD FARM P STN (POOLE) 1 2 99.1
Wessex Water Holes Bay Via Sws CREEKMOOR LANE PUMPING STATION 1 2 99.7
Wessex Water Holes Bay HEWITT ROAD PUMPING STATION 1 0 100
Wessex Water Poole Harbour EAST QUAY PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Backwater Channel,Poole Harb. POOLE BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 79.7

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.

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