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Portsmouth Harbour polluted by sewage 124 times in 2025 - lasting 234 hours

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Totals for Portsmouth Harbour in 2025
12 Sites polluted by Southern Water
124 sewage dumps
234 h duration
That's 1.39 weeks. 2.4 times a week, on average
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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Portsmouth Harbour in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour GRUNEISON ROAD STORM PS 43 100 94.4
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour NORTH END AVENUE PORTSMOUTH CSO 31 63 99.7
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour GROVE ROAD GOSPORT CEO 8 33 99.7
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour MILE END ROAD CSO 18 19 99.7
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour COMMERCIAL ROAD/RUDMORE ROAD CSO 4 5 99.7
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour WIDLEY ROAD PORTSMOUTH CSO 5 4 99.7
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour SALTERNS LANE FAREHAM CEO 4 2 100
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour CAMBRIDGE ROAD/BROCKHURST ROAD PS 3 1 100
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour WICOR MILL LANE PORTCHESTER CEO 5 1 100
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour COW LANE PORTCHESTER CEO 1 0 100
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour HARBOUR ROAD GOSPORT CEO 1 0 99.7
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour SALTERNS LANE FAREHAM O/S 12 CSO 1 0 100
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour HARDWAY CEO, PRIORY ROAD, GOSPORT 0 0 100
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour LEES LANE GOSPORT CEO 0 0 100
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour MIDDLECROFT LANE GOSPORT CSO 0 0 99.7
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour MUMBY ROAD GOSPORT WPS/CEO 0 0 99.5
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour ST MATTHEWS SQUARE GOSPORT CEO 0 0 99.7
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour THE ANCHORAGE GOSPORT CEO 0 0 99.9
Southern Water Portsmouth Harbour HOLBROOK ROAD/PYNING STREET 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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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