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Salisbury

Polluted by sewage 856 times in 2025 lasting 11,280 hours - That's 1.31 years!

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Live data for Salisbury in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 11,760 hours of sewage overflows, from 45 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s - that's 1.36 years!

Totals for Salisbury in 2025

20 Sites polluted by Southern Water Wessex Water
856 sewage dumps
11,280 hours duration
That's 1.31 years. On average 2.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Salisbury 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water River Bourne HURDCOTT WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 167 3,118 100
Wessex Water River Bourne ALLINGTON OLD INN PS 85 1,977 100
Wessex Water River Nadder BARFORD ST MARTIN WRC 81 1,550 99.9
Wessex Water Fovant Brook FOVANT WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 81 1,252 100
Southern Water Groundwater/River Dun EAST GRIMSTEAD WWTW 64 973 99.6
Wessex Water River Avon SALISBURY (PETERSFINGER) 51 840 99.8
Southern Water River Blackwater REDLYNCH WWTW 35 644 100
Wessex Water Hampshire Avon, River DOWNTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 31 309 99.9
Wessex Water River Wylye Via A Reed Bed HANGING LANGFORD PUMPING STATION 84 242 100
Wessex Water Ditch CHILMARK PUMPING STATION 7 100 100
Wessex Water Groundwater Via Infilt System HINDON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 74 96 99.6
Wessex Water River Nadder Via Sws TISBURY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 36 71 100
Wessex Water River Nadder BARFORD ST MARTIN PUMPING STATION 4 41 100
Wessex Water River Sem SEMLEY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 17 39 99.8
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sw Sewer HIGH STREET SSO 7 10 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws 37 ENDLESS STREET CSO 22 9 99.9
Wessex Water River Nadder HINDON PUMPING STATION 4 1 100
Wessex Water River Bourne HURDCOTT PS 1 1 99.9
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws COLLEGE STREET CSO 4 0 100
Wessex Water River Bourne IDMISTON PUMPING STATION 1 0 100
Wessex Water River Avon CHURCHILL GDNS SSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Avon HOME FARM SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Southern Water River Blackwater WHITEPARISH WWTW 0 0 99.9

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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