West Dorset was polluted by sewage 3,973 times in 2023
lasting 46,301 hours - that's 5.36 years!

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Totals for West Dorset in 2023
78 Sites polluted by South West Water, Wessex Water
3,973 sewage dumps
46,301 h duration
That's 5.36 years! On average 10.9 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for West Dorset 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 82 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 River Bride CHICKSBRIDGE PS 184 3,671 99.8
Wessex Water Sydling Water SYDLING ST.NICHOLAS WRC 134 3,044 100
Wessex Water River Yeo HALSTOCK WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 148 2,585 99.7
Wessex Water River Lydden BUCKLAND NEWTON WRC 145 2,549 97.2
Wessex Water River Piddle PUMPING STN ADJACENT THE PIDDLE INN 93 2,126 100
Wessex Water River Frome MAIDEN NEWTON WATER RECYCLING CENTR 112 2,106 99.7
Wessex Water River Piddle PUMPING STATION ADJACENT RIVENDELL 89 2,057 100
Wessex Water Abbotsbury Brook ABBOTSBURY WWTW 98 2,014 100
Wessex Water South Winterbourne MARTINSTOWN PS 171 1,869 100
Wessex Water River Bride PUNCKNOWLE WRC 92 1,742 99.7
Wessex Water River Frome DORCHESTER (LOUDS MILL) STW 127 1,640 100
Wessex Water Tadnoll Brook BROADMAYNE WWTW 91 1,497 100
Wessex Water Caundle Brook BISHOPS CAUNDLE STW 74 1,484 100
Wessex Water River Yeo POYNTINGTON WATER RECYLCING CENTRE 86 1,394 96.6
South West Water Drimpton Stream BROADWINDSOR WWTW 167 1,206 100
Wessex Water River Brit NETHERBURY PUMPING STATION 82 1,076 99.9
Wessex Water River Yeo SHERBORNE WWTW 97 1,000 99.55
Wessex Water River Winniford CHIDEOCK STW 60 842 100
Wessex Water River Brit SOUTHGATE PUMPING STATION 79 808 100
Wessex Water River Frome EVERSHOT WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 79 711 100
Wessex Water River Hooke TOLLER PORCORUM WRC 76 691 99.8
Wessex Water Sea Lagoon Chessel Beach WEST BEXINGTON PUMPING STATION 86 678 99.1
Wessex Water Sydling Water SYDLING ST NICHOLAS PUMPING STATION 37 645 100
Wessex Water Caundle Brook HOLWELL STW 40 636 99.9
Wessex Water Caundle Brook GLANVILLES WOOTTON WATER RECYCLING 113 629 76.9
Wessex Water Dorchester Mill Stream 16 HIGH STREET CSO 65 624 100
Wessex Water Wriggle River BEER HACKETT PUMPING STATION 58 598 99.8
Wessex Water Lyme Bay BRIDPORT SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 70 535 100
Wessex Water Unknown CSO AT SCOUT HUT 39 516 100
Wessex Water River Simene WEST ROAD FOUNDRY PUMPING STATION 54 397 100
Wessex Water River Cerne GODMANSTONE STW 23 365 91.2
Wessex Water River Yeo SANDFORD ORCAS WRC 39 364 100
Wessex Water River Brit SOUTH STREET CSO 65 323 82.8
Wessex Water Bridport Harbour WEST BAY SLUICES 32 318 100
South West Water Temple Brook DRIMPTON PUMPING STATION 32 285 100
Wessex Water Lyme Bay CHARMOUTH SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS 108 274 100
South West Water River Axe MOSTERTON PUMPING STATION 87 264 100
Wessex Water River Asker SOUTH BRIDGE COMB. STORM OVERFLOW 41 236 100
South West Water River Lim HORN BRIDGE PSEO/CSO 42 229 100
Wessex Water River Parrett SOUTH PERROTT WWTW 35 209 100
Wessex Water Wriggle River FRAMPTON FARM PUMPING STATION 49 199 100
Wessex Water Halstock Stream CORSCOMBE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORK 38 196 99.9
Wessex Water River Frome EVERSHOT COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 85 193 99.9
Wessex Water River Brit BRIDPORT WEST STREET CSO 56 166 99.8
Wessex Water River Asker LEE LANE PUMPING STATION 25 142 97.9
Wessex Water Tadnoll Brook KNIGHTON LANE CSO 30 111 100
Wessex Water River Wriggle LEIGH BRIDGE FARM PUMPING STATION 18 107 94.6
Wessex Water Unknown CSO AT PRINCES BRIDGE 10 101 100
Wessex Water Mill Stream Via Sws 35 KINGS ROAD 45 91 100
Wessex Water Mangerton River WEST MILTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 19 76 99.9
Wessex Water Winniford SEATOWN PUMPING STATION 15 67 100
Wessex Water River Bride SHIPTON GORGE PUMPING STATION 10 64 100
Wessex Water West Fleet LANGTON HERRING WRC 28 59 99.9
Wessex Water Lyme Bay BRIDPORT WATER RECYCLING CENTRE PS 15 58 100
South West Water River Lim GUN CLIFF PSEO/CSO 9 54 100
South West Water River Synderford THORNCOMBE WWTW 19 53 100
Wessex Water River Brit WEST BRIDGE CSO 12 43 94.5
Wessex Water River Bride BURTON BRADSTOCK 10 41 99.7
Wessex Water River Yeo Via Sws LUDBORNE ROAD CSO 6 34 91.2
Wessex Water River Brit HAMS PATH COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 10 29 100
Wessex Water River Yeo MILL LANE PUMPING STATION 4 27 100
Wessex Water Mill Stream CHURCH STREET PUMPING STATION 17 25 100
Wessex Water Corton Denham Stream SANDFORD ORCAS PUMPING STATION 4 22 100
Wessex Water River Bride BURTON SOUTHOVER PS 3 21 99.8
South West Water River Lim JERICHO CSO 13 13 100
Wessex Water River Asker Via Sws FISHWEIR FIELDS PS 3 8 97.2
Wessex Water South Winterbourne DORCHESTER ROAD PS 1 6 100
Wessex Water River Yeo ABBEY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 11 5 100
Wessex Water River Yeo Via Sws 63 CHEAP STREET CSO 19 5 89
Wessex Water River Asker EAST BRIDGE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 4 5 100
South West Water River Lim GOSLINGS BRIDGE CSO 5 4 94
Wessex Water River Yeo Via Sws CHEAP STREET NORTH CSO 10 3 99.8
Wessex Water River Yeo Via Sws NEWLAND COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 11 3 100
Wessex Water Unknown CSO AT 97 HIGH STREET 3 1 100
Wessex Water Mill Stream Via Sws VICTORIA ROAD CSO 3 0 99.9
Wessex Water River Yeo Via Sws WESTBURY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 99.1
Wessex Water River Yeo Via Sws THORN BANK CSO 1 0 99.7
Wessex Water River Yeo Via Sws LONG STREET CSO 1 0 99.9
Wessex Water River Frome NORTH STREET PS 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Brit WEST BAY ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Char THE STREET CSO, CHARMOUTH 0 0 99.1
Wessex Water River Frome Via Sws CSO AT TOP OF SOUTH WALKS 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. 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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