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Salisbury - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 13,070 hours in 2025 - That's 1.51 years , monitoring offline 2,760 hours , potential overflows 2,538 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Salisbury for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 4,134 hours
Feb - 4,444 hours , 1 potential
Mar - 2,437 hours , 169 potential
Apr - 658 hours
May - 491 hours , 15 potential
Jun - 42 hours , 0 offline
Jul - 52 hours , 5 offline
Aug - 2 hours
Sept - 19 hours , 638 potential
Oct - 20 hours , 744 potential
Nov - 107 hours , 720 potential
Dec - 657 hours , 249 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Wessex Water HURDCOTT STORM TANK River Bourne 152 3,185h 13m 17 h
Wessex Water ALLINGTON OLD INN River Bourne 85 1,939h 40m -
Wessex Water BARFORD ST MARTIN BURCOMBE STORM TANK River Nadder 78 1,551h 55m 0 h
Wessex Water HANGING LANGFORD River Wylye Via A Reed Bed 80 1,504h 18m 240 h
Wessex Water FOVANT STORM TANK Fovant Brook 52 936h 19m 0 h
Southern Water EAST GRIMSTEAD SSO - 115851 Groundwater/River Dun 52 847h 55m 2,351 h
Wessex Water SALISBURY PETERSFINGER SOUTHAMPTON ROAD STORM TANK River Avon 49 836h 41m -
Southern Water REDLYNCH SSO - 115737 River Blackwater 37 687h 45m -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 34 420h 29m -
Wessex Water FOVANT STORM TANK Fovant Brook 27 333h 20m -
Wessex Water DOWNTON MOOT LANE STORM TANK Hampshire Avon, River 19 316h 52m -
Wessex Water DOWNTON MOOT LANE STORM TANK Hampshire Avon, River 11 97h 46m -
Wessex Water CHILMARK River Nadder 6 87h 34m -
Wessex Water HINDON INLET Groundwater Via Infilt System 42 69h 51m -
Wessex Water HURDCOTT STORM TANK River Bourne 15 59h 34m -
Wessex Water TISBURY NADDER CLOSE PLAYING FIELDS River Nadder Via Sws 18 54h 23m -
Wessex Water BARFORD ST MARTIN River Nadder 4 41h 31m -
Wessex Water HINDON INLET Groundwater Via Infilt System 12 21h 58m -
Wessex Water SEMLEY INLET River Sem 10 21h 35m -
Wessex Water SEMLEY INLET River Sem 8 16h 16m -
Wessex Water TISBURY NADDER CLOSE PLAYING FIELDS River Nadder Via Sws 8 13h 52m -
Wessex Water SALISBURY BRIDGE STREET/HIGH STREET River Avon Via Sw Sewer 6 7h 18m -
Wessex Water SALISBURY PETERSFINGER SOUTHAMPTON ROAD STORM TANK River Avon 1 5h 17m -
Wessex Water SALISBURY ENDLESS LANE/SCOTS LANE River Avon Via Sws 5 3h 9m -
Wessex Water SALISBURY BRIDGE STREET/HIGH STREET River Avon Via Sw Sewer 3 2h 34m -
Wessex Water BARFORD ST MARTIN BURCOMBE STORM TANK River Nadder 1 1h 38m -
Wessex Water HINDON THE DENE River Nadder 2 1h 30m -
Wessex Water HURDCOTT River Bourne 3 1h 22m 532 h
Wessex Water SALISBURY ENDLESS LANE/SCOTS LANE River Avon Via Sws 2 1h 10m -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 2 1h 7m -
Wessex Water HINDON THE DENE River Nadder 1 0h 14m -
Wessex Water SALISBURY COLLEGE STREET NO XX River Avon Via Sws 1 0h 8m -
Wessex Water SALISBURY COLLEGE STREET NO XX River Avon Via Sws 1 0h 8m -
Wessex Water IDMISTON River Bourne 0 0h 27 h
Wessex Water BARFORD ST MARTIN River Nadder 0 0h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Southern Water REDLYNCH SSO - 115737 River Blackwater 0 0h -
Southern Water WHITEPARISH SSO - 115449 River Blackwater 0 0h -
Wessex Water HURDCOTT River Bourne 0 0h -
Southern Water EAST GRIMSTEAD SSO - 115851 Groundwater/River Dun 0 0h 2,128 h
Wessex Water CHILMARK River Nadder 0 0h -
Wessex Water IDMISTON River Bourne 0 0h -
Wessex Water ALLINGTON OLD INN River Bourne 0 0h -
Wessex Water HANGING LANGFORD River Wylye Via A Reed Bed 0 0h -
Wessex Water SALISBURY CHURCHILL GARDENS NEAR COLLEGE River Avon 0 0h -
Wessex Water SALISBURY CHURCHILL GARDENS NEAR COLLEGE River Avon 0 0h -

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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