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Yeovil

Polluted by sewage 244 times in 2025 lasting 1,464 hours

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Totals for Yeovil in 2025

14 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
244 sewage dumps
1,464 hours duration
That's 2.03 months. 4.7 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Yeovil 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 Bearley Brook YEOVIL WITHOUT STW 89 751 100
Wessex Water Stoford Brook EAST COKER STW 30 358 100
Wessex Water River Yeo YEOVIL (PEN MILL) WWTW 29 280 100
Wessex Water Dodham Brook HORSEY LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 15 18 100
Wessex Water River Yeo GOLDCROFT COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 40 16 95.6
Wessex Water Dodham Brook COOPERS MILL CSO 25 13 100
Wessex Water Dodham Brook Via Sws UNIT 5 YEO LEISURE PARK COMBINED 4 11 95.5
Wessex Water Dodham Brook Via Sws UNIT 4 YEO LEISURE PARK COMBINED 2 6 99.7
Wessex Water Dodham Brook Via Sws YEO LEISURE PARK COMBINED 2 4 100
Wessex Water Dodham Brook WYNDHAM HILL CSO 2 1 100
Wessex Water River Yeo PRESTON GROVE CSO 3 1 100
Wessex Water River Yeo PRESTON GROVE CSO 1 0 100
Wessex Water Dodham Brook Via Sws HENDFORD LODGE MEDICAL CENTRE CSO 1 0 93.9
Wessex Water Highway Drain , River Yeo TRENT VIEW CSO 1 0 97.1

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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