Solent polluted by sewage 1,261 times in 2024 - lasting 10,371 hours

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Totals for Solent in 2024
31 Sites polluted by Southern Water
1,261 sewage dumps
10,371 h duration
That's 1.2 years! On average 3.5 times a day

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Solent in 2024. 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 132 2,083 100
Southern Water Solent ST MARY ROAD COWES WWPS CSO 114 1,042 98.9
Southern Water Solent PEEL COMMON WWTW 78 994 100
Southern Water Solent HENDERSON ROAD EASTNEY WPS 124 883 99.8
Southern Water Solent COWES (SPRINGHILL) HEADWORKS WPS 72 712 100
Southern Water Solent LANE END TRANSFER PS 57 709 100
Southern Water Solent RYDE (APPLEY PARK) HEADWORKS WPS 57 619 100
Southern Water Solent WOODVALE TRANSFER SST 86 532 100
Southern Water Solent BARGE LANE WOOTTON BRIDGE 5 CSO 66 523 100
Southern Water Solent FISHBOURNE WEIR CSO 80 518 62.3
Southern Water Solent NORTON HEADWORKS WPS 99 492 100
Southern Water Solent EGYPT POINT PS 63 267 100
Southern Water Solent PRINCE CONSORT WPS 39 239 100
Southern Water Solent SEAGROVE WPS CSO 32 221 100
Southern Water Solent GURNARD PS 29 220 99.7
Southern Water Solent TURVILLS FIELD PS/THE PIER PS 22 79 100
Southern Water Solent BEMBRIDGE POINT SO & PS 15 51 100
Southern Water Solent PIER ROAD PS 30 30 99.9
Southern Water Solent NORTON WPS CSO 7 29 100
Southern Water Solent CASTLE STREET COWES CSO 8 27 100
Southern Water Solent YARMOUTH PS 12 21 100
Southern Water Solent SALTERNS WPS CSO 4 17 100
Southern Water Solent COLWELL CHINE CSO 3 13 100
Southern Water Solent AUGUSTA ROAD CSO 5 10 99.8
Southern Water Solent SPRINGVALE WPS CSO 4 8 99.95
Southern Water Solent WESTWOOD ROAD CSO 11 6 71.1
Southern Water Solent QUEENS ROAD LEE-ON-THE-SOLENT CEO 3 4 99.8
Southern Water Solent ST HELENS DUVER PS 1 4 99.9
Southern Water Solent SEAVIEW WPS 4 2 99.9
Southern Water Solent TERMINUS ROAD COWES CSO 3 2 98.9
Southern Water Solent SALTERNS ROAD STUBBINGTON CSO 1 1 99.9
Southern Water Solent LAKESIDE LEE-ON-SOLENT CEO 0 0 88.5
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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