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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bournemouth 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 place 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 | Poole Bay | HENGISTBURY HEAD PUMPING STATION | 17 | 86 | 100 |
| Wessex Water | River Stour | CHURCH LANE PUMPING STATION | 11 | 63 | 88.2 |
| Wessex Water | Lower River Stour | KINSON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS | 12 | 54 | 100 |
| Wessex Water | Freshwater | WOOD LANE PS | 13 | 38 | 100 |
| Wessex Water | Poole Bay | BOURNEMOUTH NO 1 PUMPING STATION | 11 | 31 | 100 |
| Wessex Water | River Stour | COOPER DEAN COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 12 | 29 | 97.7 |
| Wessex Water | English Channel | POOLE (BRANKSOME CHINE) SEWAGE PUMP | 9 | 28 | 99.9 |
| Wessex Water | River Stour | HOLDENHURST STW | 4 | 19 | 100 |
| Wessex Water | Tidal River Stour | TUCKTON HIGH STREET CSO | 15 | 7 | 100 |
| Wessex Water | Poole Bay | BOSCOMBE NO.1 PUMPING STATION | 14 | 6 | 100 |
| Wessex Water | River Stour | IFORD BRIDGE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION | 2 | 0 | 100 |
| Wessex Water | Poole Bay | FISHERMAN'S WALK OVERFLOW | 1 | 0 | 98.7 |
| Wessex Water | River Stour | ASHLEY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 1 | 0 | 99.8 |
| Wessex Water | Knighton Stream | PUMPING STATION AT MAGNA ROAD | 0 | 0 | 100 |
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.
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