South Devon was polluted by sewage 5,106 times in 2024
lasting 49,847 hours - that's 5.77 years!

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Live data for South Devon in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 5:45 PM) there has been 12,714 hours of sewage overflows - that's 1.47 years!
Totals for South Devon in 2024
91 Sites polluted by South West Water
5,106 sewage dumps
49,847 h duration
That's 5.77 years! On average 14 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 South Devon, 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 South Devon 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 102 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 Harbeton Stream HARBERTON WWTW 233 3,603 99.7
South West Water Harbourne River HARBERTONFORD WWTW 166 3,517 93.7
South West Water Kingston Stream KINGSTON WWTW 119 2,520 100
South West Water Start Bay/Slapton Ley SLAPTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 149 2,299 99.9
South West Water Aller Brook COMPTON CASTLE CSO 144 2,069 97.3
South West Water Holy Brook HOLNE WWTW 144 1,861 98.9
South West Water River Avon SOUTH BRENT WWTW 95 1,803 97.5
South West Water Bidwell Brook RATTERY WWTW CSO 114 1,768 88.6
South West Water Galmpton Stream GALMPTON (HOPE COVE) STW 72 1,581 99.1
South West Water Dart Estuary CORNWORTHY WWTW 103 1,574 92.4
South West Water Holy Brook SCORRITON STW 132 1,478 99.7
South West Water Leonards Cove Stream STOKE FLEMING PUMPING STATION 96 1,474 99.6
South West Water Start Bay TORCROSS PUMPING STATION 68 1,248 100
South West Water Dart Estuary TOTNES STW 177 1,212 100
South West Water Bidwell Brook DARTINGTON B CSO 84 1,202 100
South West Water Sherford Stream SHERFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 96 1,194 99.9
South West Water River Dart Estuary SCOUT HUT CSO 77 1,120 98.2
South West Water Unnamed Coastal Stream EAST PRAWLE STW 107 1,060 100
South West Water Charleton Stream WEST CHARLETON STW 73 1,003 100
South West Water Unknown MORELEIGH STW 123 982 100
South West Water Blackawton Stream BLACKAWTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 54 840 88.8
South West Water South Milton Stream SOUTH MILTON STW 50 819 98.3
South West Water River Dart Estuary STOKE GABRIEL PSCSO/EO 55 773 99.8
South West Water Ayleston Brook MODBURY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 86 702 100
South West Water Salcombe Estuary EAST PORTLEMOUTH WWTW 50 679 99.4
South West Water Start Bay, English Channel STRETE WWTW 68 630 100
South West Water Kingsbridge Estuary PRINCE OF WALES ROAD CSO 68 615 100
South West Water Frogmore Creek EAST CHARLETON PUMPING STATION 28 591 100
South West Water Shilston Brook BROWNSTON STW 49 590 61.6
South West Water Ringmore Stream RINGMORE STW 37 575 92.5
South West Water Bidwell Brook TEXTILE MILL 77 572 94
South West Water Small Brook EAST ALLINGTON WWTW 47 569 100
South West Water Ayleston Brook POUNDWELL MEADOW CSO 38 566 100
South West Water River Avon DIPTFORD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 143 493 99.8
South West Water Kingsbridge Estuary BRIDGE STREET QUAY CSO 82 475 100
South West Water River Dart Estuary DITTISHAM WWTW 68 434 100
South West Water Chillington Stream CHILLINGTON & FROGMORE STW 44 420 100
South West Water River Dart STAVERTON WWTW 34 365 100
South West Water Bidwell Brook DARTINGTON C CSO 39 320 95.4
South West Water Blanksmill Creek MALBOROUGH EJECTOR PS 45 281 100
South West Water Shadycombe Creek COMMINUTOR HOUSE CSO 109 250 100
South West Water Old Mill Creek Via Sws TOWNSTAL TANK CSO 36 248 100
South West Water River Dart TOTNES TOWN PUMPING STATION 105 219 97.9
South West Water River Dart Via Sws SMITH STREET CSO 94 202 100
South West Water Yalberton Stream Via Sws TOR PARK ROAD PUMPING STATION 30 200 100
South West Water Aller Brook COMPTON AND MARLDON WWTW 38 184 97
South West Water Shadycombe Creek SHADYCOMBE LOWER TUNNEL 23 170 100
South West Water River Harbourne ASHPRINGTON WWTW 41 162 99.5
South West Water Dart River Estuary MAYORS AVENUE PUMPING STATION 74 157 100
South West Water River Dart Estuary FERRY BOAT INN PUMPING STATION 66 157 100
South West Water Stream KIMBERLEY NURSERIES CSO 87 157 98.8
South West Water River Avon BRENT MILL CSO 56 157 97.8
South West Water Avon River Estuary AVETON GIFFORD STW 12 150 99.8
South West Water Dart Estuary YARROW BANK PUMPING STATION 8 130 95.2
South West Water Higher Brixham Stream EDEN PARK CSO 34 128 100
South West Water River Dart Estuary STEAMER QUAY BRIDGETOWN CSO 43 114 100
South West Water English Channel BOLTON STREET CSO 59 114 100
South West Water Dittisham Mill Creek-Estuarine MILL CREEK PUMPING STATION 32 112 100
South West Water Bidwell Brook SHINNER'S BRIDGE CSO 37 96 100
South West Water River Avon LODDISWELL WWTW 23 91 100
South West Water River Dart LOWER FERRY PUMPING STATION 52 84 98.5
South West Water River Dart Estuary SWALLOWFIELDS CSO 30 69 97.1
South West Water Brixham Outer Harbour OXEN COVE ATTENUATION TANK CSO 34 68 91.5
South West Water Kirkham Stream MARLDON (CHURSCOMBE CROSS) PS 29 62 100
South West Water Hope Cove OUTER HOPE PUMPING STATION 22 58 100
South West Water Baston Creek BATSON GREEN PUMPING STATION 24 53 100
South West Water River Dart Estuary WARFLEET CREEK PUMPING STATION 7 51 100
South West Water Galmpton Stream GALMPTON PUMPING STATION 32 40 99.9
South West Water River Dart 31 FORE STREET CSO 46 37 97.8
South West Water Frogmore Stream HOME CLOSE PUMPING STATION 2 22 100
South West Water Gatcombe Brook FURZEGOOD PUMPING STATION 27 22 100
South West Water Malt Mill Lake QUARRY CLOSE CSO 11 21 92.5
South West Water English Channel OVERSEAS ESTATE WEST PS 18 16 100
South West Water Combe Stream QUILLETTS CSO 33 16 100
South West Water Kingsbridge Estuary SOUTHVILLE EMBANKMENT PS 9 14 100
South West Water River Dart DARTHAVEN MARINA PUMPING STATION 49 13 100
South West Water Batson Creek SHADYCOMBE LOWER TUNNEL 12 12 100
South West Water Frogmore Creek CHILLINGTON COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 22 12 97
South West Water River Dart Estuary Via Sws ST KATHERINE'S WAY CSO 21 10 97.5
South West Water Blackawton Stream FIELD ADJ COUNCIL HOUSES CSO 17 10 56.1
South West Water Kingsbridge Estuary WEST ALVINGTON CSO 21 8 98.7
South West Water Dart Estuary PRIORY SLIP PUMPING STATION 9 7 78.4
South West Water Hope Cove INNER HOPE PSCSO/EO 5 6 100
South West Water Malt Mill Lake Via Sw Sewer ST JOHNS TERRACE CSO 18 5 94.2
South West Water Combe Stream MALBOROUGH VILLAGE PUMPING STATION 4 5 100
South West Water Slapton Ley STOKENHAM CARAVAN PARK CSO 3 2 27.4
South West Water Combe Stream SOUTH SANDS PS 3 1 100
South West Water Kingsbridge Estuary NORTH SANDS PUMPING STATION 2 0 97.1
South West Water River Wash TUCKENHAY BRIDGE PS 1 0 98.2
South West Water Malt Mill Lake Via Sws LOWER COLLAPARK CSO 1 0 89
South West Water Stream SOUTH MILTON CSO 1 0 92.5
South West Water Challaborough Stream CHALLABOROUGH PSCSO/EO 0 0 99.1
South West Water Stream THE ANCHORAGE CSO 0 0 100
South West Water English Channel APPLETREE CSO 0 0 100
South West Water Kingsbridge Estuary WESTVILLE/TACKETWOOD PS 0 0 99
South West Water Aller Brook LOVE LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 100
South West Water Horse Brook Via Sws HEATHER PARK PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
South West Water Torbay BERRY HEAD ROAD CSO 0 0 100
South West Water English Channel OVERSEAS ESTATE EAST PS 0 0 100
South West Water Leonards Cove Stream LEONARDS COVE PS 0 0 100
South West Water Bigbury Bay BIGBURY & CHALLABOROUGH STW 0 0 100
South West Water Bigbury Bay THE WARREN 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. 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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