Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Blackdown Hills - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 4,173 hours in 2026 so far..

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Totals for Blackdown Hills in 2026

Sewage4,173 hours
Monitoring offline0 hours
Potential pollution0 hours
Storm overflows32

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Daily Data - when it rained, and when they spilled

Square = rainfall none → heavy
Drop = sewage minutes → all day
Potential pollution Monitoring offline
Jan - 2,169 hours
Feb - 1,678 hours
Mar - 250 hours
Apr - 0 hours
May - 0 hours
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
Aug - 1 hours
Sept - 1 hours
Oct - 72 hours
Nov - 0 hours

Storm overflows in and around Blackdown Hills

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
South West Water DALWOOD SPST_PSCSOEO_DALWOOD Corry Brook 74 1,440h 51m -
South West Water STOCKLAND STW_SSO_STOCKLAND Watercourse 51 604h 30m -
South West Water BROADHEMBURY SPS_PSCSOEO_BROADHEMBURY River Tale 35 553h 13m -
South West Water WILMINGTON STW_SSO_WILMINGTON Unknown 32 412h 30m -
South West Water DUNKESWELL STW_SO_DUNKESWELL River Madford 32 339h 19m -
South West Water YARCOMBE STW_SO_YARCOMBE Unknown 38 279h 46m -
South West Water HEMYOCK STW_SO_HEMYOCK River Culm 27 180h 45m -
South West Water DUNKESWELL SPS_PSCSOEO_DUNKESWELL Dunkeswell Stream 16 93h 20m -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 10 85h 38m -
South West Water CHARD ROAD_CSO_AXMINSTER River Axe 15 48h 10m -
South West Water BUCKLAND ST MARY STW_SO_BUCKLAND ST MARY To River Yarty 9 42h 46m -
South West Water CHURCHINFORD STW_SSO_CHURCHINFORD River Otter 5 41h 13m -
South West Water HEMYOCK SPST_PSCSOEO_HEMYOCK River Culm 8 33h 19m -
Wessex Water TAUNTON MILL LANE CORFE NO 2 Broughton Brook 3 11h 42m -
South West Water DUNKESWELL STW_SSO_DUNKESWELL River Madford 1 6h 25m -
South West Water HEMYOCK SPST_PSCSOEO_HEMYOCK River Culm 0 0h -
South West Water DUNKESWELL STW_SSO_DUNKESWELL River Madford 0 0h -
South West Water DUNKESWELL STW_SO_DUNKESWELL River Madford 0 0h -
South West Water DUNKESWELL SPS_PSCSOEO_DUNKESWELL Dunkeswell Stream 0 0h -
South West Water CHURCHINFORD STW_SSO_CHURCHINFORD River Otter 0 0h -
Wessex Water TAUNTON MILL LANE CORFE NO 2 Broughton Brook 0 0h -
South West Water CASTLE PARK_CSO_HEMYOCK Stream 0 0h -
South West Water BROADHEMBURY SPS_PSCSOEO_BROADHEMBURY River Tale 0 0h -
South West Water YARCOMBE STW_SO_YARCOMBE Unknown 0 0h -
South West Water BUCKLAND ST MARY STW_SO_BUCKLAND ST MARY To River Yarty 0 0h -
South West Water STOCKLAND STW_SSO_STOCKLAND Watercourse 0 0h -
South West Water CASTLE PARK_CSO_HEMYOCK Stream 0 0h -
Wessex Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
South West Water HEMYOCK STW_SO_HEMYOCK River Culm 0 0h -
South West Water WILMINGTON STW_SSO_WILMINGTON Unknown 0 0h -
South West Water DALWOOD SPST_PSCSOEO_DALWOOD Corry Brook 0 0h -
South West Water CHARD ROAD_CSO_AXMINSTER River Axe 0 0h -

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.

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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