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River Marden polluted by sewage 156 times in 2025 - lasting 1,836 hours

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Totals for River Marden in 2025
6 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
156 sewage dumps
1,836 h duration
That's 2.55 months. 3 times a week, on average
Constituencies along River Marden
Places along River Marden

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water River Marden BROADS GREEN PS 54 1,057 100
Wessex Water River Marden ROUGH LEAZE 23 395 99.9
Wessex Water River Marden CALNE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 47 299 100
Wessex Water River Marden QUEMERFORD BRIDGE CSO 12 45 96.7
Wessex Water River Marden PATFORD STREET CSO 10 33 93.9
Wessex Water River Marden THE STRAND CSO 10 4 95.1

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

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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