Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 27 September 2024.
Edward Morello
Liberal Democrat, West Dorset
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what data his Department holds on sewage discharges into the sea in West Dorset Constituency in each of the last three years.
Emma Hardy
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Wessex Water and South West Water provide data on storm overflow discharges in near real time on their websites. The Environment Agency will publish the 2024 Event Duration Monitoring data, showing how long and how often storm overflows have been used, in March 2025. The data for previous years is available here.
The Government’s Water (Special Measures) Bill will require independent event duration monitoring of all sewage outlets, to support greater scrutiny of water company activity.
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