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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

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Constituencies along Solent

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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