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River Itchen polluted by sewage 85 times in 2025 - lasting 664 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water River Itchen CHICKENHALL EASTLEIGH WWTW 31 436 100
Southern Water River Itchen BURNETTS LANE WPS 11 93 99.9
Southern Water River Itchen POUND ROAD BURSLEDON CEO 6 47 100
Southern Water River Itchen HARESTOCK WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORK 4 31 99.6
Southern Water River Itchen GREEN LANE CHILWORTH CEO 6 29 99.7
Southern Water River Itchen IMPERIAL ROAD MOUNT PLEASANT CEO 7 15 99.9
Southern Water River Itchen SIRDAR ROAD SOUTHAMPTON CSO 17 6 100
Southern Water River Itchen GATERS MILL 2 4 100
Southern Water River Itchen UPR SHAFTESBURY AVE SOUTHAMPTON CSO 1 0 99.9
Southern Water River Itchen CONSORT ROAD EASTLEIGH CSO 0 0 75.5
Southern Water River Itchen CEDAR ROAD SOUTHAMPTON CSO 0 0 99.7
Southern Water River Itchen SPRING GARDENS PS 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

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.

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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