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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

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Poole

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.

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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