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River Piddle polluted by sewage 156 times in 2025 - lasting 3,453 hours

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Totals for River Piddle in 2025
4 Sites polluted by Wessex Water
156 sewage dumps
3,453 h duration
That's 4.8 months. 3 times a week, on average
Places along River Piddle

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Wessex Water River Piddle PUMPING STN ADJACENT THE PIDDLE INN 78 1,753 100
Wessex Water River Piddle PUMPING STATION ADJACENT RIVENDELL 76 1,692 100
Wessex Water River Piddle BRIANTSPUDDLE SEWAGE 1 6 100
Wessex Water River Piddle SANDFORD LANE PUMPING STATION 1 0 100
Wessex Water River Piddle WEST MILL CRESCENT PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Piddle AFFPUDDLE PUMPING STATION 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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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