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Camborne and Redruth

Polluted by sewage 1,532 times in 2025 lasting 8,183 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Camborne and Redruth in 2026

So far this year (as of 5 Sept 2026, 21:46) there has been 8,025 hours of sewage overflows, from 49 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Camborne and Redruth in 2025

19 Sites polluted by South West Water
1,532 sewage dumps
8,183 hours duration
That's 11.37 months. On average 4.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 1 of the total 22 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
South West Water Hicks Mill Stream GWENNAP WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 453 2,701 98.3
South West Water Atlantic Ocean BRIDGE PS / CSO / EO 134 2,332 100
South West Water Tolvaddon Stream TOLVADDON DOWNS CSO 69 505 100
South West Water Nanceroy Stream CONSTANTINE BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 41 488 100
South West Water Porthtowan Stream ECHO CORNER PSCSO/EO 42 486 100
South West Water Trevaunance Stream PETERVILLE PUMPING STATION 45 341 100
South West Water Angarrack Strean RELISTIAN PUMPING STATION 76 292 100
South West Water Red River MILL ROAD PSCSO/EO 62 283 99.8
South West Water Red River RESKADINNICK PUMPING STATION 42 244 100
South West Water River Kenwyn ECHO CORNER PSCSO/EO 16 159 100
South West Water Roseworthy Stream KNAVE-GO-BYE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLO 40 151 100
South West Water Red River TROON FARM CSO 71 65 100
South West Water Lestraines River CONSTANTINE STW 41 58 100
South West Water Carnon River SPARRY LANE CSO 64 38 100
South West Water Trevaunance Stream COVE PUMPING STATION 23 21 100
South West Water Red River Via Sws ST MARTINS CRESCENT CSO 19 6 82
South West Water Redruth Stream SUNNYSIDE TANK CSO 288 3 94.8
South West Water Polwheveral Stream PENBOTHIDNO CSO 5 0 100
South West Water Bolingey Stream STATION ROAD PUMPING STATION 1 0 100
South West Water Hayle Estuary PHILLACK CSO 0 0 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean ST AGNES WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 0 0 100
South West Water Portreath Stream TOLSKITHEY LANE CSO 0 0 0

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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