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Totals for River Stour in 2025

24 Sites polluted by Wessex Water

439 sewage dumps
4,271 h duration

That's 5.93 months. On average 1.2 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Wessex Water	River Stour	MARNHULL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	75	1,365	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	BOURTON WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	62	812	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	STURMINSTER NEWTON WRC	48	419	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	GILLINGHAM WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	35	318	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	CORFE MULLEN WWTW	30	226	99.9
Wessex Water	River Stour	BULL INN CSO	19	195	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	BUCKINGHAM ROAD PUMPING STATION	32	183	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	WIMBORNE STW	22	165	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	MARNHULL SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	14	147	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	HAYES LANE PUMPING STATION	26	90	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	THE BRIDGE PS	12	89	95.6
Wessex Water	River Stour	CHURCH LANE PUMPING STATION	11	63	88.2
Wessex Water	River Stour	WATER LANE PUMPING STATION	6	54	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	COOPER DEAN COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	12	29	97.7
Wessex Water	River Stour	PARDY'S HILL PS	8	23	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	BRICKYARD LANE PUMPING STATION	4	20	99.9
Wessex Water	River Stour	HOLDENHURST STW	4	19	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	CHILD OKEFORD PS	4	15	99.9
Wessex Water	River Stour	CANFORD MAIN PUMPING STATION	4	12	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	FAIRVIEW PUMPING STATION	4	9	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	BROOK ROAD PUMPING STATION	2	6	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	IFORD BRIDGE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	2	0	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	ASHLEY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	1	0	99.8
Wessex Water	River Stour	LANGTON ROAD PUMPING STATION	2	0	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	PEN MILL PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	BOURNEMOUTH ROAD PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Wessex Water	River Stour	CRAWFORD BRIDGE 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

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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