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Exmouth and Exeter East

Polluted by sewage 1,355 times in 2025 lasting 11,984 hours - That's 1.39 years!

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So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 10,956 hours of sewage overflows, from 75 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s - that's 1.27 years!

Totals for Exmouth and Exeter East in 2025

33 Sites polluted by South West Water
1,355 sewage dumps
11,984 hours duration
That's 1.39 years. On average 3.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Exmouth and Exeter East 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
South West Water River Culm REWE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 175 2,568 100
South West Water Woodbury Brook EXTON SOUTH PUMPING STATION 108 1,741 100
South West Water River Clyst EBFORD PUMPING STATION 98 1,440 100
South West Water Woodbury Brook WOODBURY WWTW 81 1,002 100
South West Water River Clyst EXTON NORTH PS 83 995 100
South West Water Lyme Bay EXMOUTH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 55 788 87.5
South West Water English Channel MAER PUMPING STATION & TANK CSO 51 611 100
South West Water Exe Estuary HARTOPP ROAD CSO 61 489 100
South West Water River Exe Estuary EXETER (COUNTESS WEAR) STW 67 330 99.75
South West Water Exe Estuary PHEAR PARK PSEO/CSO 35 325 100
South West Water River Otter EAST BUDLEIGH PUMPING STATION 80 320 100
South West Water R Culm STOKE CANON PSEO 34 293 59.3
South West Water River Clyst CLYST HONITON PUMPING STATION 23 269 100
South West Water Grindle Brook Via Sws OLD WOODBURY SALTERTON STW CSO 27 191 97.4
South West Water Exe Estuary IMPERIAL ROAD TANK CSO 21 161 100
South West Water Woodbury Brook HAM LANE CSO 52 113 98
South West Water English Channel LIME KILN TANK CSO 83 113 100
South West Water River Exe Estuary LYMPSTONE OUTFALL PUMPING STATION 36 48 100
South West Water Exe Estuary ASH GROVE CSO 30 41 100
South West Water River Exe FOLLET ROAD CSO 30 24 100
South West Water Cranny Brook CHURCH ROAD CSO 5 21 100
South West Water Pin Brook LANGATON LANE CSO 25 20 100
South West Water Withycombe Brook EXETER ROAD CSO - EXMOUTH 29 19 100
South West Water River Clyst Valley Via Sws BROADCLYST (SIDE) PUMPING STATION 17 16 100
South West Water River Otter THE GREEN COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 15 13 97.5
South West Water Knowle Stream MARINE PARADE CSO 5 6 100
South West Water Knowle Stream THE GREEN TANK CSO 4 4 93
South West Water River Otter GRANARY LANE CSO 7 3 100
South West Water Knowle Stream MEADOW ROAD TANK CSO 6 2 100
South West Water R Exe TURLAKE SPS 2 2 100
South West Water Kersbrook Channel GRANARY LANE (NORTH) CSO 8 1 100
South West Water Northbrook Via Sws PARKLAND DRIVE PUMPING STATION 1 0 100
South West Water Stream MOOR LANE PSCSO/EO 1 0 99.9
South West Water River Otter COLATON RALEIGH COMBINED SEWER OF 0 0 100
South West Water River Exe FERRY ROAD PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
South West Water Knowle Stream FORE STREET CSO 0 0 100
South West Water Knowle Stream LITTLE KNOWLE CSO 0 0 99.9
South West Water Pin Brook MONKERTON PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
South West Water River Exe NEWPORT PARK PUMPING STATION 0 0 100

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

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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