Top of the Poops | Constituency | Exeter| Polluted by South West Water

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Live data for Exeter in 2025

So far this year (as of May 29, 2025, 1:15 AM) there has been 509 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Exeter in 2024

35 Sites polluted by South West Water

548 sewage dumps

1,263 hours duration

That's 1.75 months. On average 1.5 times a day

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Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Exeter, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Exeter in 2024. 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 52 CSO 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	Higher Leat Via Sw Sewer	LOWER NORTH STREET CSO	70	204	100
South West Water	Higher Least Via Sw Sewer	PENNSYLVANIA ROAD CSO	51	157	100
South West Water	Mill Race, River Exe	MILL RACE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	36	144	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	CHURCH ROAD JCT OF CECIL ROAD CSO	19	133	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	DUNSFORD ROAD CSO	42	100	79.9
South West Water	Northbrook	NORTHBROOK GOLF COURSE LOWER CSO	21	64	98.2
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	HOLLOWAY STREET CSO	29	63	100
South West Water	Northbrook	NORTHBROOK PARK GOLF CRSE UPPER CSO	23	52	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	TEMPLE ROAD CSO	30	50	100
South West Water	Alphin Brook	CHURCH ROAD CSO	30	50	85.5
South West Water	River Exe	BONHAY PARK CSO	9	38	99.5
South West Water	Higher Leat Via Sws	HOWELL ROAD CSO	3	36	100
South West Water	Mincinglake Stream	121A ST. KATHERINES ROAD CSO	12	36	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	COLLETON GROVE CSO	19	23	97.7
South West Water	Higher Leat Via Sw Sewer	WELL STREET CSO	22	22	99.7
South West Water	Northbrook	SWEETBRIER LANE CSO	16	18	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	MAGDALEN ROAD CSO	19	18	98.2
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	19 HEAVITREE ROAD CSO	21	10	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	23 KING EDWARD STREET CSO	11	6	85.8
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	OKEHAMPTON ROAD CSO	7	5	100
South West Water	Taddiforde Brook	R/O IMPERIAL HOTEL CSO	14	5	99
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	LARKBEARE HOUSE CSO	6	4	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	BUDDLE LANE CSO	7	2	90.2
South West Water	Higher Leat	EXE STREET CSO	2	2	100
South West Water	Mincinglake Stream Via Sws	STOKE MEADOW CLOSE PUMPING STATION	1	2	100
South West Water	River Exe	MILL ROAD PUMPING STATION	8	1	100
South West Water	North Brook Via Sws	FIRST AVENUE SERVICE LANE CSO	6	1	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	PARIS STREET CSO	2	1	100
South West Water	Alphin Brook	TAN LANE PUMPING STATION	1	0	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	CHUTE STREET CSO	2	0	93
South West Water	North Brook Via Sws	NORTH LAWN COURT CSO	2	0	100
South West Water	Higher Leat Via Sws	CENTRAL STATION YARD CSO	1	0	87.4
South West Water	North Brook Via Sws	HEAVITREE PLEASURE GROUND CSO	3	0	96.3
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	EXETER BOWLING CLUB CSO	2	0	99.4
South West Water	Higher Leat Via Sw Sewer	QUAY HILL CSO	1	0	90.1
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	TOPSHAM ROAD JCT ROBERS ROAD CSO	0	0	0
South West Water	Higher Leat Via Sw Sewer	EXETER COLLEGE CSO	0	0	98.5
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	14 CLIFTON ROAD CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	Northbrook Via Sws	21 WONFORD STREET CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	Northbrook Via Sws	BURNTHOUSE LANE CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	Higher Leat Via Sw Sewer	ST SIDWELLS SCHOOL CSO	0	0	98.9
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	BULLER ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	56.3
South West Water	River Exe Via Sw Sewer	DIX'S FIELD CSO	0	0	99.3
South West Water	Higher Leat	QUAY HILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	100
South West Water	North Brook Via Sws	LOWER AVENUE CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	North Brook	15 HAMLIN LANE CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	Duryard Stream	ARGYLL ROAD PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
South West Water	Higher Leat Via Sws	THORNTON HILL CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	North Brook Via Sws	2 DRYDEN ROAD CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	28 CLIFTON ROAD CSO	0	0	95.5
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	CLIFTON ROAD/JCT ALBERT ROAD CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	34 CLIFTON ROAD CSO	0	0	100

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Exeter Polluted by sewage 548 times in 2024 lasting 1,263 hours Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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