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Poole was polluted by sewage 181 times in 2023
lasting 849 hours

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Totals for Poole in 2023
12 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
181 sewage dumps
849 h duration
That's 1.18 months. 3.5 times a week, on average
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Poole 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 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 English Channel SHORE ROAD PS OVERFLOW 45 234 99.9
Wessex Water Holes Bay POOLE E STW 20 193 100
Wessex Water Creekmoor Lake STANLEY GREEN ROAD CSO 44 140 100
Wessex Water Holes Bay Via Sws KENNART ROAD PUMPING STATION 11 64 99.5
Wessex Water Holes Bay Estuarine HINCHCLIFFE ROAD CSO 14 60 97.4
Wessex Water English Channel POOLE (BRANKSOME CHINE) SEWAGE PUMP 13 54 97.5
Wessex Water Lytchett Bay EGMONT ROAD PS 8 44 95.5
Wessex Water Rock Lea River, Lytchett Bay TURLIN MAIN CSO 14 21 99.9
Wessex Water Poole Park Boating Lake POOLE PARK CSO 4 17 98.6
Wessex Water Backwater Channel,Poole Harb. POOLE BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 4 13 100
Wessex Water Unknown HARKWOOD FARM P STN (POOLE) 2 4 97.6
Wessex Water Poole Harbour SANDBANKS PAVILION PUMPING STATION 2 1 99.9
Wessex Water Holes Bay Via Sws CREEKMOOR LANE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Holes Bay HEWITT ROAD PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
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.

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