East Devon was polluted by sewage 2,442 times in 2023
lasting 24,551 hours - that's 2.84 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for East Devon in 2023

52 Sites polluted by South West Water

2,442 sewage dumps
24,551 h duration

That's 2.84 years! On average 6.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in East Devon

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for East Devon in 2023. 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 57 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
South West Water	Salcombe Regis Stream	SALCOMBE REGIS WWTW CSO	223	4,827	100
South West Water	River Clyst	EBFORD PUMPING STATION	214	4,089	100
South West Water	Woodbury Brook	WOODBURY WWTW	132	2,353	100
South West Water	River Clyst	EXTON NORTH PS	132	1,787	100
South West Water	Unknown	THE HAM PS TANK & CSO - SIDMOUTH	148	1,680	91
South West Water	Aylesbeare Brook	AYLESBEARE STW	136	1,355	100
South West Water	Lyme Bay	EXMOUTH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	83	1,200	100
South West Water	River Tale	TALATON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	94	926	83
South West Water	Woodbury Brook	EXTON SOUTH PUMPING STATION	79	913	100
South West Water	English Channel	MAER PUMPING STATION & TANK CSO	74	883	100
South West Water	Exe Estuary	HARTOPP ROAD CSO	87	718	100
South West Water	River Otter	FLUXTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	106	651	100
South West Water	River Clyst	CLYST HONITON PUMPING STATION	45	564	100
South West Water	English Channel	LIME KILN TANK CSO	118	465	100
South West Water	River Otter	EAST BUDLEIGH PUMPING STATION	114	411	100
South West Water	River Otter	CASTLE COPSE PUMPING STATION	21	291	100
South West Water	Exe Estuary	PHEAR PARK PSEO/CSO	31	231	73.9
South West Water	Woodbury Brook	HAM LANE CSO	70	156	100
South West Water	Exe Estuary	IMPERIAL ROAD TANK CSO	22	151	100
South West Water	River Otter	TIPTON ST JOHN PUMPING STATION	21	111	100
South West Water	River Clyst	TALATON PUMPING STATION	24	81	100
South West Water	Grindle Brook Via Sws	OLD WOODBURY SALTERTON STW CSO	16	70	85.7
South West Water	River Exe	NEWPORT PARK PUMPING STATION	7	64	100
South West Water	River Sid Via Sws	FORTESCUE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	28	57	100
South West Water	Cranny Brook	CHURCH ROAD CSO	9	57	100
South West Water	River Otter	WEST BANK PUMPING STATION	7	42	98.5
South West Water	Exe Estuary	ASH GROVE CSO	34	41	100
South West Water	Groundwater Via Infilt System	BUTTS HILL PUMPING STATION	19	39	100
South West Water	River Exe Estuary	LYMPSTONE OUTFALL PUMPING STATION	44	31	100
South West Water	River Otter	OTTERY ST MARY ATTENUATION TANK	7	31	100
South West Water	River Exe	FOLLET ROAD CSO	41	27	100
South West Water	Pin Brook	LANGATON LANE CSO	20	26	84
South West Water	River Otter	GRANARY LANE CSO	32	25	100
South West Water	River Clyst Valley Via Sws	BROADCLYST (SIDE) PUMPING STATION	22	25	100
South West Water	Knowle Stream	MARINE PARADE CSO	10	24	100
South West Water	Withycombe Brook	EXETER ROAD CSO - EXMOUTH	35	23	100
South West Water	River Otter	THE GREEN COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	11	23	40
South West Water	Knowle Stream	THE GREEN TANK CSO	10	21	100
South West Water	River Otter	CHAPEL LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	28	9	57.3
South West Water	River Otter Via Sws	MILLSTREET CSO	5	8	100
South West Water	River Otter Via Sws	MILLMOOR LANE COMBINED SEWER OF	7	8	93.1
South West Water	Northbrook Via Sws	PARKLAND DRIVE PUMPING STATION	5	7	100
South West Water	Woolbrook	MANSTONE LANE CSO	26	7	92.7
South West Water	Knowle Stream	MEADOW ROAD TANK CSO	8	6	100
South West Water	Back Brook	RECREATION GROUND CSO	4	5	92.5
South West Water	Stream	MOOR LANE PSCSO/EO	4	3	100
South West Water	River Otter	BATTS LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	8	3	100
South West Water	Kersbrook Channel	GRANARY LANE (NORTH) CSO	9	1	100
South West Water	River Sid	TEMPLE STREET CSO	6	1	95.8
South West Water	River Sid Via Sws	VICARAGE ROAD CSO	3	0	100
South West Water	River Exe	FERRY ROAD PUMPING STATION	2	0	100
South West Water	Woolbrook	R/O 68 WOOLBROOK ROAD CSO	1	0	99.6
South West Water	Knowle Stream	FORE STREET CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Otter	COLATON RALEIGH COMBINED SEWER OF	0	0	94.1
South West Water	River Sid Via Sws	BYES LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	100
South West Water	Littleham Brook	MAER ROAD CSO EXMOUTH	0	0	0
South West Water	Knowle Stream	LITTLE KNOWLE CSO	0	0	89.4

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. This 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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