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Winchester

Polluted by sewage 126 times in 2025 lasting 1,138 hours

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Live data for Winchester in 2026

So far this year (as of 10 Sept 2026, 11:45) there has been 2,187 hours of sewage overflows, from 20 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Sewage without rain in Winchester

On 5 occasions since December 2024, no rain fell anywhere in Winchester for days — and its CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s discharged anyway.

Totals for Winchester in 2025

7 Sites polluted by Southern Water
126 sewage dumps
1,138 hours duration
That's 1.58 months. 2.4 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Winchester 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 %
Southern Water Ford Lake Via Stream HEATHEN LANE DURLEY CEO 47 524 99.9
Southern Water River Hamble BISHOPS WALTHAM WWTW 36 335 99.6
Southern Water River Hamble DURLEY LANE DURLEY CEO 29 223 99.9
Southern Water River Itchen HARESTOCK WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORK 4 31 99.6
Southern Water Groundwaters Via 2 Infilt Syst MORESTEAD WWTW 7 13 100
Southern Water Freshwater River GARNIER ROAD 2 6 98.8
Southern Water River Hamble ASHTON CORNER CEO 1 1 99.7
Southern Water Groundwater NEW ALRESFORD WWTW 0 0 98
Southern Water River Itchen SPRING GARDENS PS 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. 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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