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Salisbury

Polluted by sewage 84 times in 2025 lasting 859 hours

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Totals for Salisbury in 2025

4 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
84 sewage dumps
859 hours duration
That's 1.19 months. 1.6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Salisbury 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 River Avon SALISBURY (PETERSFINGER) 51 840 99.8
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sw Sewer HIGH STREET SSO 7 10 100
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws 37 ENDLESS STREET CSO 22 9 99.9
Wessex Water River Avon Via Sws COLLEGE STREET CSO 4 0 100
Wessex Water River Avon CHURCHILL GDNS SSO 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

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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