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Fareham

Polluted by sewage 155 times in 2025 lasting 569 hours

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Totals for Fareham in 2025

13 Sites polluted by Southern Water
155 sewage dumps
569 hours duration
That's 3.39 weeks. 3 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Fareham 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 %
Southern Water Solent PEEL COMMON WWTW 37 282 99.8
Southern Water Hoeford Lake HOEFORD FAREHAM CEO 16 61 99.7
Southern Water Fareham Lake WYCH LANE/FAREHAM RD O/FLOW 26 46 99.7
Southern Water Black Brook ELMHURST ROAD (COMPASS POINT) CSO 19 37 99.6
Southern Water Blackbrook Stream THE GILLIES FAREHAM CSO 11 32 99.7
Southern Water Wallington River HIGH STREET FAREHAM CSO 12 29 100
Southern Water Fareham Creek/Portsmouth Hbr QUAY STREET, FAREHAM CSO 5 28 99.7
Southern Water Black Brook STORM OVERFLOW AT ARUNDEL DRIVE 14 18 99.7
Southern Water To River Alver NEWGATE LANE WPS CEO 3 16 100
Southern Water Black Brook REDLANDS LANE FAREHAM CSO 5 12 99.7
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour SALTERNS LANE FAREHAM CEO 4 2 100
Southern Water River Wallington WICKHAM ROAD FAREHAM WPS CSO 2 0 99.5
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour SALTERNS LANE FAREHAM O/S 12 CSO 1 0 100
Southern Water Fareham Creek/Portsmouth Hbr BRIDGEFOOT PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Southern Water Fareham Creek/Portsmouth Hbr CAMS HILL, FAREHAM CSO 0 0 99.9
Southern Water Hoeford Stream COTSWOLD WALK CSO 0 0 99.6
Southern Water River Wallington WALLINGTON HILL CSO 0 0 99.7

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

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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