Honiton and Sidmouth was polluted by sewage 3,958 times in 2024
lasting 48,436 hours - that's 5.61 years!

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Live data for Honiton and Sidmouth in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:00 PM) there has been 13,223 hours of sewage overflows - that's 1.53 years!

Totals for Honiton and Sidmouth in 2024

69 Sites polluted by South West Water

3,958 sewage dumps
48,436 h duration

That's 5.61 years! On average 10.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Honiton and Sidmouth

Daily Data

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

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Honiton and Sidmouth 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 0 of the total 73 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
South West Water	Salcombe Regis Stream	SALCOMBE REGIS WWTW CSO	366	8,772	100
South West Water	Weaver	DULFORD PSCSO/EO	283	6,198	99.9
South West Water	Payhembury Stream	PAYHEMBURY STW	279	5,372	99.7
South West Water	River Otter	HONITON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	369	4,898	99.65
South West Water	River Otter	FENITON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	114	1,886	99.2
South West Water	River Ken	STONEYFORD PUMPING STATION	99	1,782	83.3
South West Water	Unknown	THE HAM PS TANK & CSO - SIDMOUTH	158	1,768	99.47
South West Water	Corry Brook	DALWOOD PUMPING STATION	97	1,610	94.2
South West Water	River Axe Estuary	SEATON STW	90	1,418	100
South West Water	River Axe	KILMINGTON WWTW	158	1,181	98.6
South West Water	River Axe	COLYTON & COLYFORD WWTW	96	1,143	100
South West Water	River Otter	FLUXTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	133	975	98.5
South West Water	River Coly	BRIDGE HOUSE CSO	86	944	99.9
South West Water	River Otter	GITTISHAM PUMPING STATION	82	930	97.5
South West Water	River Weaver	PLYMTREE STW	72	787	100
South West Water	Aylesbeare Brook	AYLESBEARE STW	103	779	100
South West Water	River Tale	BROADHEMBURY PUMPING STATION	56	678	100
South West Water	Unknown	WILMINGTON STW	64	667	100
South West Water	River Axe	RAILWAY STATION COMBINED SEWER OF	74	660	99
South West Water	Cullompton Mill Leat	DUKE STREET PUMPING STATION	48	607	100
South West Water	River Coly	COLYFORD PSCSO/EO	69	592	100
South West Water	Unknown	YARCOMBE STW	58	535	100
South West Water	River Axe	HORSLEARS PUMPING STATION	61	525	100
South West Water	Offwell Brook	OFFWELL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	41	426	92.6
South West Water	Blackwater River/Stream	HAWKCHURCH STW	53	421	99.1
South West Water	River Madford	DUNKESWELL WWTW	59	369	100
South West Water	Unknown	MUSBURY & WHITFORD STW	68	328	100
South West Water	River Wolf	AWLISCOMBE PUMPING STATION	37	302	99.8
South West Water	River Clyst	PENCEPOOL FARM PUMPING STATION	29	205	99.6
South West Water	Branscombe Stream	BRANSCOMBE WWTW	29	179	100
South West Water	River Tale	TALATON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	18	145	85.3
South West Water	Lyme Bay/Seaton Bay	BEER CAR PARK PUMPING STATION	46	143	100
South West Water	River Clyst	TALATON PUMPING STATION	36	143	100
South West Water	River Otter	WESTON PUMPING STATION	16	109	99
South West Water	River Otter	GLEBE FARM PUMPING STATION	53	90	100
South West Water	River Axe	CHARD ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	31	89	99.2
South West Water	River Otter	TIPTON ST JOHN PUMPING STATION	30	82	100
South West Water	River Axe	SHAND PARK CSO	20	79	100
South West Water	River Sid Via Sws	FORTESCUE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	27	71	98.2
South West Water	Ditch	VENTURA CSO	27	69	97.1
South West Water	River Otter	OTTERY ST MARY ATTENUATION TANK	13	67	100
South West Water	River Axe Estuary	HARBOUR ROAD SPS (SEATON)	29	62	100
South West Water	River Axe	WHITFORD ROAD COMBINED SEWER O/F	12	51	100
South West Water	Dunkeswell Stream	DUNKESWELL PS	18	49	100
South West Water	River Axe	CHAPEL STREET CSO	14	33	100
South West Water	Groundwater Via Infilt System	BUTTS HILL PUMPING STATION	18	27	100
South West Water	River Otter	WEST BANK PUMPING STATION	8	27	64.4
South West Water	Gissage	191 HIGH STREET CSO	31	27	100
South West Water	Lyme Bay And Seaton Bay	MEMORIAL GARDENS PS	30	23	100
South West Water	River Otter	CASTLE COPSE PUMPING STATION	3	17	100
South West Water	River Coly	COLYTON CHANTRY CSO	14	15	100
South West Water	Gissage	27 OAKLEA COMBINED SEWER OVEFLOW	11	11	100
South West Water	Woolbrook	MANSTONE LANE CSO	34	8	98.5
South West Water	River Otter Via Sws	MILLSTREET CSO	5	8	100
South West Water	River Otter	CHAPEL LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	22	7	100
South West Water	River Coly	FIRE STATION CSO	19	6	100
South West Water	River Otter Via Sws	MILLMOOR LANE COMBINED SEWER OF	12	4	94.4
South West Water	River Otter	BUCKERELL PUMPING STATION	2	3	99.8
South West Water	River Otter	BATTS LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	5	1	100
South West Water	River Lim	MILL LANE CSO	2	1	100
South West Water	River Axe	AXMOUTH PSCSO/EO	4	1	99.8
South West Water	Branscombe	BRANSCOMBE PSCSO/EO	1	0	100
South West Water	Mill Stream	FORGE WAY CAR PARK CSO	2	0	100
South West Water	River Sid	TEMPLE STREET CSO	4	0	100
South West Water	River Otter	WILLOWDALE PSCSO/EO	1	0	100
South West Water	River Sid Via Sws	BYES LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	2	0	98.1
South West Water	Mill Leat	MIDDLE MILL LANE CSO	2	0	95.2
South West Water	Back Brook	RECREATION GROUND CSO	3	0	83
South West Water	River Sid Via Sws	VICARAGE ROAD CSO	2	0	99.8
South West Water	River Otter	WATERLEAT PARK PSCSO/EO	0	0	100
South West Water	An Unnamed -River Clyst	PLYMTREE STW	0	0	100
South West Water	Watercourse	STOCKLAND STW	0	0	100
South West Water	Woolbrook	R/O 68 WOOLBROOK ROAD CSO	0	0	95

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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