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Weymouth

Polluted by sewage 279 times in 2025 lasting 452 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Totals for Weymouth in 2025

20 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
279 sewage dumps
452 hours duration
That's 2.69 weeks. 5.4 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Weymouth 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 1 of the total 27 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water Unknown WEYMOUTH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 65 302 100
Wessex Water Weymouth Harbour Via Sws RODWELL AVENUE CSO 44 33 98.3
Wessex Water River Wey CHAFEY'S LAKE CSO 14 32 96.1
Wessex Water Radipole Lake ROMAN ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 38 26 100
Wessex Water Weymouth Harbour THE MARSH COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 10 15 100
Wessex Water Weymouth Harbour ADMIRAL HARDY CSO 6 9 88.1
Wessex Water Weymouth Bay CRANFORD AVENUE CSO 17 4 95.9
Wessex Water Weymouth Harbour CHICKERELL BOYS CLUB CSO 20 4 95.3
Wessex Water River Wey FAIRFIELD SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 4 4 100
Wessex Water Weymouth Bay MELCOMBE AVENUE CSO 13 4 99.8
Wessex Water Portland Harbour REAR DONCASTER ROAD 11 3 99.9
Wessex Water Radipole Lake Via Sws CORONATION CRESCENT CSO 14 3 100
Wessex Water Radipole Lake Via Sws ULLSWATER CRESCENT CSO 8 1 100
Wessex Water Weymouth Harbour CHICKERELL ROAD CSO 6 1 34
Wessex Water Weymouth Harbour WESTON ROAD CSO 3 0 100
Wessex Water Portland Harbour CASTLE COVE PUMPING STATION 2 0 100
Wessex Water Portland Harbour HILLCREST ROAD PUMPIMG STATION 1 0 100
Wessex Water Weymouth Harbour NEWSTEAD ROAD PUMPING STATION 1 0 100
Wessex Water Weymouth Harbour LONGCROFT ROAD CSO 1 0 61.6
Wessex Water Weymouth Harbour WARDCLIFFE ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Wessex Water Fleet FERRYBRIDGE PS 0 0 100
Wessex Water Radipole Lake GRASMERE ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water Weymouth Harbour Via Sws MARLOW ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Wessex Water Weymouth Harbour RADIPOLE LAKE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Radipole Lake Via Sws SPA ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 100
Wessex Water Weymouth Harbour Via Sws SPRING LANE CSO 0 0 99.5
Wessex Water Weymouth Harbour SPRING ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 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.

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