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Totals for Dawlish Town in 2025

8 Sites polluted by South West Water

178 sewage dumps

479 hours duration

That's 2.85 weeks. 3.4 times a week, on average

How does Dawlish Town compare?

Dawlish Town was the #71 most polluted bathing area in England & Wales, by duration of sewage overflows, as reported by the water companies

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Sewage pollution map of Dawlish Town, showing 178 overflows in 2025

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Dawlish Town in 2025.

Accuracy Warning

We use data from the water companies, but we are seeing many anomalies that make us believe that bathing location information is quite poor. The situation is likely far worse than reported here.

If the locations of the sewage outlets look a bit unusual, it is likely that the reporting of the data from the water company is in error. We rely on their data in order to draw these maps.

Other CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s may also be located nearby, however the water companies claim that these do not affect the water quality here.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
South West Water	Lyme Bay	SANDY LANE PUMPING STATION	46	396	100
South West Water	Lyme Bay	DAWLISH BREAKWATER SSO	31	29	100
South West Water	Dawlish Water	DAWLISH SSO (BROOK STREET)	41	27	100
South West Water	Dawlish Water	BARTON HILL/BRUNSWICK CSO	32	18	100
South West Water	Dawlish Water	VIADUCT HIGH LEVEL STORM TANK CSO	8	3	100
South West Water	Dawlish Water	WEST CLIFF COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	15	2	100
South West Water	Lyme Bay	ELM GROVE CSO	4	0	100
South West Water	Lyme Bay	SEA LAWNS OUTFALL CSO, DAWLISH	1	0	100
South West Water	Dawlish Water	BROOK HOUSE SSO	0	0	98.6

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.

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