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Yeovil was polluted by sewage 2,122 times in 2023
lasting 16,680 hours - that's 1.93 years!

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Totals for Yeovil in 2023
49 Sites polluted by South West Water, Wessex Water
2,122 sewage dumps
16,680 h duration
That's 1.93 years! On average 5.8 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Yeovil 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 50 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 Small Brook HASELBURY PLUCKNETT WRC 107 1,751 100
South West Water Forton Brook TATWORTH WWTW 148 1,719 82.25
Wessex Water River Ding BROADWAY WATSTEWATER TREATMENT WORK 103 1,607 99.9
Wessex Water Chinnock Brook HARDINGTON MANDEVILLE WRC 78 1,225 100
Wessex Water River Yeo PRESTON GROVE CSO 61 1,154 92.9
Wessex Water River Isle ILMINSTER WWTW 83 1,108 100
Wessex Water Crewkerne Stream CREWKERNE EAST STW 152 1,062 99.3
Wessex Water Goulds Brook MERRIOTT WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 122 1,062 99.25
Wessex Water North Mills Brook SOUTH PETHERTON STW 60 789 100
Wessex Water Chinnock Brook EAST CHINNOCK WWTW 71 607 99.8
Wessex Water Venner'S Water ASHILL STW 71 602 100
Wessex Water Stoford Brook EAST COKER STW 48 359 100
Wessex Water Lopen Brook OVER STRATTON STW 53 323 100
Wessex Water Lambrook Brook SHEPTON BEAUCHAMP PUMPING STATION 50 313 98.3
Wessex Water River Yeo YEOVIL (PEN MILL) WWTW 38 307 100
Wessex Water Merriott Stream HINTON ST GEORGE PS 40 236 96.4
Wessex Water River Isle CHARD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 31 235 100
Wessex Water A Stormwater Ditch MOOR LANE CSO 58 219 99.7
Wessex Water Yeovil Yeo, STOFORD SEWER STORM OVERFLOW 26 214 98.8
South West Water Stream PERRY STREET CSO 54 200 87.4
Wessex Water Small Brook NORTH PERROTT CSO 49 177 100
Wessex Water Dowlish Brook DOWLISH WAKE WWTW 24 135 99.95
Wessex Water River Parrett MISTERTON PUMPING STATION 31 132 99.9
Wessex Water Lopen Brook LOPEN PUMPING STATION 11 126 100
Wessex Water River Isle DONYATT WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 29 123 99.9
South West Water River Axe WINSHAM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 129 113 100
Wessex Water Chinnock Brook THE GARAGE PS 23 108 100
Wessex Water River Isle DONYATT PUMPING STATION 16 94 100
Wessex Water Lambrook Brook COMPTON DURVILLE CSO 28 82 100
Wessex Water Freshwater LORD NELSON PUMPING STATION 9 65 99.2
Wessex Water Shudrick Stream BREWERY LANE CSO 32 55 100
Wessex Water River Isle CHARD OLD STW CSO 37 47 100
Wessex Water Shudrick Stream 37 STATION ROAD CSO 27 41 100
Wessex Water Goulds Brook BROADSHARD CSO 14 38 99.7
Wessex Water Dodham Brook HORSEY LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 23 31 100
South West Water Clapton Stream CLAPTON PUMPING STATION 11 29 100
South West Water To River Yarty BUCKLAND ST MARY STW 6 28 93.6
Wessex Water Dodham Brook Via Sws UNIT 5 YEO LEISURE PARK COMBINED 13 26 99.8
Wessex Water Lopen Stream LONGBRIDGE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 4 25 100
Wessex Water Dodham Brook COOPERS MILL CSO 32 24 100
Wessex Water River Yeo GOLDCROFT COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 54 16 94.3
Wessex Water River Isle COMBE ST NICHOLAS WWTW 3 15 100
Wessex Water River Isle CHAFFCOMBE STW 18 10 100
Wessex Water Crewkerne Stream HENHAYES FIELD CSO 20 9 100
Wessex Water Dodham Brook Via Sws UNIT 4 YEO LEISURE PARK COMBINED 7 9 99.9
Wessex Water Dodham Brook Via Sws YEO LEISURE PARK COMBINED 6 4 99.9
Wessex Water Dodham Brook WYNDHAM HILL CSO 4 2 99.6
Wessex Water River Yeo PRESTON GROVE CSO 1 0 98.7
Wessex Water Dodham Brook Via Sws HENDFORD LODGE MEDICAL CENTRE CSO 7 0 99.9
Wessex Water North Mill Brook WEST STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 98.3

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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