Newton Abbot was polluted by sewage 2,035 times in 2024
lasting 13,563 hours - that's 1.57 years!

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Live data for Newton Abbot in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 5:30 PM) there has been 5,444 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.63 years!
Totals for Newton Abbot in 2024
66 Sites polluted by South West Water
2,035 sewage dumps
13,563 h duration
That's 1.57 years! On average 5.6 times a day
Change Over Time
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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 Newton Abbot, 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 Newton Abbot 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 84 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 Broadhempston Stream BROADHEMPSTON WWTW CSO 105 1,791 100
South West Water English Channel BUCKLAND WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 116 1,591 99.2
South West Water River Lemon EAST OGWELL WWTW 92 1,533 100
South West Water Halwell Stream IPPLEPEN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 147 1,184 100
South West Water Halwell Stream TORBRYAN PS 54 1,126 100
South West Water Arch Brook STOKEINTEIGNHEAD PUMPING STATION 81 634 95.9
South West Water River Teign THE BUTTS PS 62 478 100
South West Water River Lemon BARTON DRIVE CSO 49 414 100
South West Water Netherton Brook HIGHER NETHERTON SPS 20 398 100
South West Water Lyme Bay SANDY LANE PUMPING STATION 48 390 99.9
South West Water Tidal River Exe BONHAY ROAD CSO 45 361 92.8
South West Water Aller Brook ST MARYCHURCH ROAD CSO 49 352 100
South West Water Halwell Stream DENBURY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 72 317 99.7
South West Water Aller Brook THE OLD ORCHARD CSO 80 294 88.6
South West Water Surface Water Sewer O/S 4 KEYBERRY ROAD CSO 51 268 96.2
South West Water River Teign Via S/W Sewer FORDE ROAD PSCSO/EO 32 226 100
South West Water Babbacombe Bay SMUGGLERS LANE PSEO 69 217 100
South West Water O Teign Estuary STOCKMEADOW HOUSE CSO 66 195 100
South West Water O Riv.Teign Via Sw Sewer HOMERS LANE CSO 31 159 100
South West Water Teign Estuary BITTON PARK ROAD JCT 2ND AVENUE CSO 32 155 86.8
South West Water Shutterton Brook DAWLISH WARREN ROAD PS 76 137 99.9
South West Water River Kenn SLITTERCOMBE LANE PSCSO/EO 34 122 98
South West Water Sws To Aller Brook QUEENSWAY PUMPING STATION 24 119 100
South West Water Sewer To Aller Brook KEYBERRY RD NO.5 CSO 22 102 97.7
South West Water Combe Stream COMBEINTEIGNHEAD PUMPING STATION 22 91 95.8
South West Water Shell Cove, Lyme Bay HOLCOMBE PUMPING STATION 28 85 100
South West Water Stream Dis To Lyme Bay WOODLAND AVE CSO 46 83 100
South West Water Teign Estuary BISHOPSTEIGNTON PS 12 80 98
South West Water Lyme Bay SANDY LANE PUMPING STATION 47 79 99.9
South West Water Teign Estuary KING GEORGE'S FIELD PS 28 75 99.7
South West Water River Lemon OLD TOTNES ROAD CSO 14 75 90.7
South West Water Cofton Stream COFTON PSCSO/EO 11 49 100
South West Water Lyme Bay DAWLISH BREAKWATER SSO 31 42 100
South West Water S/W Sewer To Aller Brook FORDE PARK/TORQUAY ROAD CSO 42 40 92.6
South West Water River Teign ELM ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 17 33 100
South West Water River Lemon OPP 65 HIGHWEEK ROAD CSO 3 31 100
South West Water Shutterton Brook SHUTTERTON BRIDGE PS 33 27 97
South West Water Teign Estuary RINGMORE ROAD CSO 21 25 96.5
South West Water Dawlish Water DAWLISH SSO (BROOK STREET) 42 24 100
South West Water River Teign HACKNEY PS 5 24 100
South West Water Aller Brook TORQUAY ROAD CSO 28 19 100
South West Water Lyme Bay STATION CAR PARK CSO 6 18 100
South West Water Dawlish Water BARTON HILL/BRUNSWICK CSO 35 17 100
South West Water Teign Estuary BITTON PARK RUGBY CLUB CSO 6 11 95.3
South West Water Aller Brook KEYBERRY ROAD NO.18 CSO 3 9 100
South West Water River Lemon Via Sws TEMPLERS ROAD CSO 1 5 71.5
South West Water Surface Water Sewer ALLER BRAKE ROAD CSO 17 4 98.8
South West Water Ringmore Stream ORCHARD CLOSE CSO 9 3 100
South West Water Aller Brook SANDRINGHAM PARK CSO 5 3 100
South West Water River Teign Via Sws Estuarine MILFORD PARK PUMPING STATION 2 3 100
South West Water Dawlish Water VIADUCT HIGH LEVEL STORM TANK CSO 9 3 85
South West Water River Lemon Via Sws BARTON DRIVE CSO 1 2 100
South West Water English Channel Via Sws 49 EXETER ROAD CSO 13 2 97.2
South West Water River Lemon NO 15 LEMON ROAD CSO 3 2 98.6
South West Water Aller Brook LOWICKE HOUSE PS 1 2 100
South West Water Dawlish Water WEST CLIFF COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 9 1 94.6
South West Water Lyme Bay SEA LAWNS PUMPING STATION 2 1 100
South West Water River Lemon CLOCKTOWER CSO 4 1 94.1
South West Water Bitton Brook FIRE STATION CSO 2 1 93.5
South West Water Bitten Brook DUNNING WALK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLO 5 1 93
South West Water Aller Brook KEYBERRY ROAD NO 2 1 1 100
South West Water Lyme Bay ELM GROVE CSO 5 0 100
South West Water River Lemon MARKET WALK CSO 2 0 100
South West Water Wolborough Stream COACH ROAD CSO 4 0 100
South West Water Cofton Stream SHIP INN CSO 2 0 84.3
South West Water River Lemon BRUNSWICK HOUSE CSO 1 0 100
South West Water Teign Estuary GALES HILL PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
South West Water Dawlish Water BROOK HOUSE SSO 0 0 99.5
South West Water Teign Estuary BITTON PARK ROAD CSO 0 0 98.7
South West Water Teign Estuary BROADMEADOW PS 0 0 100
South West Water River Lemon Via Sws QUEEN STREET CSO 0 0 100
South West Water Cofton Stream COCKWOOD PSEO 0 0 100
South West Water Surface Water Sewer HORNS CLOSE CSO 0 0 98.3
South West Water Bitton Brook Via Sws BITTON PARK ROAD JCT 2ND AVENUE CSO 0 0 100
South West Water Lyme Bay SEA LAWNS OUTFALL CSO, DAWLISH 0 0 100
South West Water Aller Brook O/S 11 KINGSTEIGNTON ROAD CSO 0 0 100
South West Water O River Lemon Via Sw Sewr BANK STREET CSO 0 0 99.3
South West Water Cofton Stream CHURCH ROAD CSO 0 0 100
South West Water S/Water System To Exe Estuary GENERALS LANE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
South West Water S/W Sewer Then To Whitelake PITT HILL ROAD CSO 0 0 100
South West Water Surface Water Sewer PARK HILL CSO 0 0 100
South West Water River Teign FIELD NEAR WAR MEMORIAL CSO 0 0 100
South West Water Bitton Brook Via Sws HIGHER COOMBE DRIVE CSO 0 0 99.3
South West Water Ringmore Stream LAUREL LANE CSO 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.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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