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Honiton and Sidmouth was polluted by sewage 3,627 times in 2023
lasting 37,259 hours - that's 4.31 years!

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Totals for Honiton and Sidmouth in 2023
66 Sites polluted by South West Water
3,627 sewage dumps
37,259 h duration
That's 4.31 years! On average 9.9 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Honiton and Sidmouth 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 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 Weaver DULFORD PSCSO/EO 258 5,212 100
South West Water Salcombe Regis Stream SALCOMBE REGIS WWTW CSO 223 4,827 100
South West Water River Otter HONITON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 252 2,819 76.3
South West Water River Ken STONEYFORD PUMPING STATION 126 2,354 100
South West Water Payhembury Stream PAYHEMBURY STW 174 1,708 100
South West Water Unknown THE HAM PS TANK & CSO - SIDMOUTH 148 1,680 91
South West Water River Axe KILMINGTON WWTW 171 1,391 100
South West Water River Axe COLYTON & COLYFORD WWTW 96 1,380 100
South West Water Aylesbeare Brook AYLESBEARE STW 136 1,355 100
South West Water River Axe Estuary SEATON STW 81 1,167 100
South West Water River Tale BROADHEMBURY PUMPING STATION 77 1,136 100
South West Water Corry Brook DALWOOD PUMPING STATION 76 1,076 100
South West Water River Otter GITTISHAM PUMPING STATION 86 1,071 100
South West Water River Tale TALATON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 94 926 83
South West Water River Otter FENITON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 73 688 100
South West Water River Axe RAILWAY STATION COMBINED SEWER OF 65 670 92.9
South West Water River Lim MILL LANE CSO 29 652 100
South West Water River Otter FLUXTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 106 651 100
South West Water River Coly BRIDGE HOUSE CSO 78 648 88.4
South West Water Unknown WILMINGTON STW 61 609 100
South West Water River Axe HORSLEARS PUMPING STATION 71 543 100
South West Water Offwell Brook OFFWELL WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 77 531 81.8
South West Water Blackwater River/Stream HAWKCHURCH STW 111 461 100
South West Water Cullompton Mill Leat DUKE STREET PUMPING STATION 42 421 100
South West Water Unknown MUSBURY & WHITFORD STW 81 355 100
South West Water River Madford DUNKESWELL WWTW 67 312 100
South West Water River Otter CASTLE COPSE PUMPING STATION 21 291 100
South West Water River Wolf AWLISCOMBE PUMPING STATION 36 265 100
South West Water River Weaver PLYMTREE STW 24 204 100
South West Water River Clyst PENCEPOOL FARM PUMPING STATION 34 202 100
South West Water River Coly COLYFORD PSCSO/EO 41 148 100
South West Water Ditch VENTURA CSO 42 141 78.8
South West Water Lyme Bay/Seaton Bay BEER CAR PARK PUMPING STATION 39 132 100
South West Water Unknown YARCOMBE STW 33 112 100
South West Water River Otter TIPTON ST JOHN PUMPING STATION 21 111 100
South West Water River Otter GLEBE FARM PUMPING STATION 60 111 100
South West Water Branscombe Stream BRANSCOMBE WWTW 13 103 100
South West Water River Otter WESTON PUMPING STATION 18 97 94.3
South West Water River Axe SHAND PARK CSO 22 82 100
South West Water River Clyst TALATON PUMPING STATION 24 81 100
South West Water River Axe CHARD ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 20 74 100
South West Water River Sid Via Sws FORTESCUE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 28 57 100
South West Water River Axe WHITFORD ROAD COMBINED SEWER O/F 14 55 100
South West Water River Axe Estuary HARBOUR ROAD SPS (SEATON) 30 54 100
South West Water River Otter WEST BANK PUMPING STATION 7 42 98.5
South West Water Groundwater Via Infilt System BUTTS HILL PUMPING STATION 19 39 100
South West Water River Otter OTTERY ST MARY ATTENUATION TANK 7 31 100
South West Water Gissage 191 HIGH STREET CSO 41 26 100
South West Water Lyme Bay And Seaton Bay MEMORIAL GARDENS PS 24 26 100
South West Water River Coly COLYTON CHANTRY CSO 16 15 99.5
South West Water River Axe CHAPEL STREET CSO 7 15 97.7
South West Water Gissage 27 OAKLEA COMBINED SEWER OVEFLOW 10 9 62.9
South West Water Dunkeswell Stream DUNKESWELL PS 6 9 100
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 Woolbrook MANSTONE LANE CSO 26 7 92.7
South West Water Back Brook RECREATION GROUND CSO 4 5 92.5
South West Water River Coly FIRE STATION CSO 17 5 100
South West Water River Otter BATTS LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 8 3 100
South West Water Branscombe BRANSCOMBE PSCSO/EO 1 3 100
South West Water Mill Stream FORGE WAY CAR PARK CSO 4 2 100
South West Water River Axe AXMOUTH PSCSO/EO 1 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 Woolbrook R/O 68 WOOLBROOK ROAD CSO 1 0 99.6
South West Water River Otter WILLOWDALE PSCSO/EO 0 0 100
South West Water River Otter BUCKERELL PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
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 River Sid Via Sws BYES LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 100
South West Water Mill Leat MIDDLE MILL LANE CSO 0 0 54.8
South West Water Watercourse STOCKLAND STW 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. 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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