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Solent polluted by sewage 1,550 times in 2023 - lasting 16,942 hours

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Totals for Solent in 2023
31 Sites polluted by Southern Water
1,550 sewage dumps
16,942 h duration
That's 1.96 years! On average 4.2 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Solent in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Solent PENNINGTON WWTW 137 2,321 100
Southern Water Solent NORTON HEADWORKS WPS 154 2,050 99.9
Southern Water Solent RYDE (APPLEY PARK) HEADWORKS WPS 141 1,976 100
Southern Water Solent PEEL COMMON WWTW 86 1,401 95.9
Southern Water Solent WOODVALE TRANSFER SST 96 1,380 100
Southern Water Solent COWES (SPRINGHILL) HEADWORKS WPS 95 1,356 100
Southern Water Solent HENDERSON ROAD EASTNEY WPS 139 1,178 100
Southern Water Solent LANE END TRANSFER PS 70 987 100
Southern Water Solent EGYPT POINT PS 86 688 99.5
Southern Water Solent ST MARY ROAD COWES WWPS CSO 90 674 100
Southern Water Solent TERMINUS ROAD COWES CSO 76 549 99.9
Southern Water Solent BARGE LANE WOOTTON BRIDGE 5 CSO 38 433 99.7
Southern Water Solent GURNARD PS 37 361 99.8
Southern Water Solent PRINCE CONSORT WPS 45 354 99.9
Southern Water Solent NORTON WPS CSO 31 325 99.9
Southern Water Solent SEAGROVE WPS CSO 35 269 99.9
Southern Water Solent FISHBOURNE WEIR CSO 23 174 82.1
Southern Water Solent TURVILLS FIELD PS/THE PIER PS 23 135 99.9
Southern Water Solent BEMBRIDGE POINT SO & PS 27 104 99.9
Southern Water Solent CASTLE STREET COWES CSO 23 43 100
Southern Water Solent YARMOUTH PS 18 40 100
Southern Water Solent PIER ROAD PS 21 33 99.1
Southern Water Solent COLWELL CHINE CSO 5 24 100
Southern Water Solent SALTERNS WPS CSO 5 21 87.7
Southern Water Solent SPRINGVALE WPS CSO 7 15 99.9
Southern Water Solent WESTWOOD ROAD CSO 21 13 30
Southern Water Solent QUEENS ROAD LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT CEO 2 8 99.3
Southern Water Solent AUGUSTA ROAD CSO 11 6 100
Southern Water Solent SEAVIEW WPS 6 5 97
Southern Water Solent SALTERNS ROAD STUBBINGTON CSO 1 1 99.8
Southern Water Solent LAKESIDE LEE-ON-SOLENT CEO 1 0 100
Southern Water Solent ST HELENS DUVER PS 0 0 99.9
Southern Water Solent SPENCER ROAD RYDE CSO 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. This 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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