Poole was 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 Apr 16, 2025, 5:45 PM) there has been 180 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Poole in 2024

13 Sites polluted by Wessex Water

184 sewage dumps
508 h duration

That's 21.17 days. 3.5 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Poole

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Poole, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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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 0 of the total 15 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	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	Backwater Channel,Poole Harb.	POOLE BRIDGE PUMPING STATION	0	0	79.7
Wessex Water	Poole Harbour	EAST QUAY 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.

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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