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Romsey and Southampton North

Polluted by sewage 325 times in 2025 lasting 4,833 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Romsey and Southampton North in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 6,457 hours of sewage overflows, from 32 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Romsey and Southampton North in 2025

12 Sites polluted by Southern Water
325 sewage dumps
4,833 hours duration
That's 6.71 months. 6.2 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Romsey and Southampton North in 2025. 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 1 of the total 19 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water River Test KINGS SOMBORNE WWTW 125 2,800 99.6
Southern Water River Blackwater WEST WELLOW WWTW 101 1,303 99.9
Southern Water River Blackwater WELLOW MILL WPS 25 238 100
Southern Water River Test ROMSEY WWTW 17 227 90.3
Southern Water Marshcourt River STOCKBRIDGE WWTW 18 139 98.9
Southern Water Unnamed Of River Test RINGWOOD DRIVE NORTH BADDESLEY CEO 9 58 99.7
Southern Water River Itchen GREEN LANE CHILWORTH CEO 6 29 99.7
Southern Water River Test CHILBOLTON WWTW 2 14 99.2
Southern Water River Test MEMORIAL PARK ROMSEY CEO 1 8 75
Southern Water River Test TRAFALGAR WAY STOCKBRIDGE CEO 2 7 99.6
Southern Water River Itchen SIRDAR ROAD SOUTHAMPTON CSO 17 6 100
Southern Water Saline Estuary WESSEX LANE SOUTHAMPTON OUTSIDE 11 2 0 95
Southern Water Tadburn Lake BOTLEY ROAD WPS (NORTH BADDESLEY) 0 0 99.6
Southern Water Tadburn Lake EIGHT ACRES ROMSEY CSO 0 0 48.9
Southern Water River Test FULLERTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORK 0 0 100
Southern Water River Test HOUGHTON ROAD STOCKBRIDGE CEO 0 0 99.7
Southern Water Tadburn Lake THE HUNDRED ROMSEY CSO 0 0 53.4
Southern Water Saline Estuary WESSEX LANE SOUTHAMPTON 0 0 97.3
Southern Water Saline Estuary WESSEX LANE SOUTHAMPTON OUTSIDE 15 0 0 79.1

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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