English Channel polluted by sewage 136 times in 2024 - lasting 785 hours

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Totals for English Channel in 2024
6 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
136 sewage dumps
785 h duration
That's 1.09 months. 2.6 times a week, on average
Constituencies along English Channel

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for English Channel 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 %
Wessex Water English Channel WEST LULWORTH PUMPING STATION 41 567 100
Wessex Water English Channel OSMINGTON BAY HOLIDAY CENTRE PS 26 80 99.8
Wessex Water English Channel LULWORTH BEACH PUMPING STATION 17 76 98
Wessex Water English Channel SHORE ROAD PS OVERFLOW 42 43 100
Wessex Water English Channel POOLE (BRANKSOME CHINE) SEWAGE PUMP 7 16 99.4
Wessex Water English Channel PORTLAND BILL STORM OVERFLOW 3 1 100

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.

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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