St Austell and Newquay was polluted by sewage 1,831 times in 2024
lasting 9,764 hours - that's 1.13 years!

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Live data for St Austell and Newquay in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 11, 2025, 5:30 PM) there has been 3,276 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.38 years!

Totals for St Austell and Newquay in 2024

36 Sites polluted by South West Water

1,831 sewage dumps
9,764 h duration

That's 1.13 years! On average 5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in St Austell and Newquay

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for St Austell and Newquay, 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 St Austell and Newquay 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 44 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	River Fal	ST DENNIS WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORK	253	3,182	99.5
South West Water	St Austell Bay	POLKERRIS FINE SCREENING PLANT & PS	87	1,390	100
South West Water	River Gannel	FRADDON WASTEWATER TREATEMENT WORKS	123	819	100
South West Water	Gwindra Stream	NORTH FAL STW (ST STEPHENS COOMBE)	84	788	100
South West Water	Fowey Estuary	FOWEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	91	764	89.1
South West Water	River Fowey Estuary	TOWN QUAY PUMPING STATION	264	711	100
South West Water	Stream/Atlantic Ocean	WATERGATE BAY PUMPING STATION	32	442	98
South West Water	Gwindra Stream	GOONMARRIS PSCSO/EO	75	403	97.1
South West Water	River Fowey Estuary	CAFFA MILL PUMPING STATION	62	195	99.9
South West Water	River Fal	GRAMPOUND PLAYING FIELD CSO	110	167	100
South West Water	Atlantic Ocean	TOWAN HEAD PUMPING STATION	32	116	100
South West Water	River Par	MOLINNIS COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	45	95	100
South West Water	Atlantic Ocean	YELLOWSANDS PUMPING STATION	41	88	100
South West Water	River Gannel	FERN PIT PUMPING STATION	48	66	100
South West Water	River Fowey Estuary	GOLANT PUMPING STATION	109	63	98.3
South West Water	River Fal	GRAMPOUND PUMPING STATION	32	55	99.9
South West Water	Sandy River	DANIELS LANE CSO	28	51	100
South West Water	Par River	ROCHE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	58	50	100
South West Water	Unnamed Ditch,Trenance Lake	GUSTI VEOR COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	59	43	100
South West Water	River Gannel	QUEEN AND RAILWAY INN CSO	54	41	94.3
South West Water	St Austell Bay, English Chanel	CHARLESTOWN PUMPING STATION	19	38	100
South West Water	Caerhays Stream	LOWER STICKER PUMPING STATION	16	37	99.2
South West Water	Unknown	PAR SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	13	26	99.9
South West Water	River Par	PAR NO2 PUMPING STATION	10	24	100
South West Water	St Austell Bay	CHARLESTOWN HARBOUR PSCSO/EO	21	24	100
South West Water	St Austell River	ST AUSTELL (LONDON APPRENTICE) PS	7	20	100
South West Water	St Blazey Stream	TREDENHAM CLOSE CSO	7	13	90.7
South West Water	Mevagissey Bay	MEVAGISSEY PS	20	12	100
South West Water	White River	NANSLADRON PUMPING STATION	2	7	100
South West Water	River Gannel	FRADDON JUNCTION CSO	7	7	100
South West Water	River Fowey Estuary	READYMONEY ROAD COMBINED SEWER	7	4	98.3
South West Water	Lappa Valley	GWINDRA ROAD CSO	9	3	98.3
South West Water	River Fal	CREEKAVOSE PUMPING STATION	1	3	99.9
South West Water	Polgooth Stream	POLGOOTH COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	2	0	99.9
South West Water	River Fowey Estuary	WHITEHOUSE SLIP (POINT) CSO	2	0	99.6
South West Water	St Austell River	PENTEWAN PSCSO/EO	1	0	100
South West Water	River Camel	VICTORIA PSCSO/EO	0	0	95.3
South West Water	St Austell Bay	PORTHPEAN PSCSO/EO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Fal	INDIAN QUEENS PSCSO/EO	0	0	100
South West Water	Stream	BEACON SIDE PSCSO/EO	0	0	100
South West Water	Un-Named Watercourse	CREAKAVOSE PARK PSCSO/EO	0	0	95.6
South West Water	River Fowey Estuary	READYMONEY COVE PS	0	0	100
South West Water	Newquay Bay	FLY CELLARS PSCSO/EO	0	0	100
South West Water	Stream	PORTMELLON PSCSO/EO	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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