Tiverton and Minehead was polluted by sewage 3,656 times in 2023
lasting 35,429 hours - that's 4.1 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Tiverton and Minehead in 2023
74 Sites polluted by South West Water, Wessex Water
3,656 sewage dumps
35,429 h duration
That's 4.1 years! On average 10 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Tiverton and Minehead 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 1 of the total 83 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
South West Water Pulham River BROMPTON REGIS STW 177 3,439 100
South West Water River Exe WESTEXE PUMPING STATION 166 2,930 100
Wessex Water Hillfarrance Brook WIVELISCOMBE (STYLE) STW 225 2,386 99.85
South West Water Spratford Stream SAMPFORD PEVERELL WWTW 137 2,365 100
Wessex Water Doniford Stream CROWCOMBE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORK 95 1,786 100
South West Water River Culm WILLAND WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 166 1,754 94.5
South West Water River Barle DULVERTON WWTW 204 1,579 100
South West Water River Exe WINSFORD PSCSO/EO 96 1,363 100
Wessex Water Hillfarrance Brook MILVERTON WWTW 109 1,351 100
Wessex Water Bristol Channel WATCHET SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 73 1,210 100
Wessex Water Bristol Channel KILVE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 72 1,149 99.9
South West Water Shuttern Brook MOREBATH STW 149 1,104 100
South West Water River Lowman LITTLE SILVER PUMPING STATION 113 955 100
Wessex Water Back Stream WEST BAGBOROUGH STW 62 875 100
South West Water Uplowman Stream UPLOWMAN STW 48 792 100
South West Water Fenacre Water BURLESCOMBE WWTW 68 767 100
Wessex Water Washford River BYE FARM COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 94 767 99.1
South West Water River Lyner HOLCOMBE ROGUS WWTW 127 720 52.85
South West Water River Batherm BAMPTON WWTW 64 707 100
Wessex Water Porlock Bay Hawkcombestream PORLOCK WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 34 602 100
Wessex Water Bristol Channel DONIFORD PUMPING STATION 42 488 99.9
South West Water River Culm CULMSTOCK SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 64 464 100
Wessex Water Unknown MINEHEAD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 63 459 99.9
Wessex Water Monksilver Stream MONKSILVER PUMPING STATION 30 447 99.9
South West Water River Barle BRUSHFORD WWTW 50 433 98.5
Wessex Water Stogursey Brook STOGURSEY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 49 426 99.9
Wessex Water Halse Water SANDHILL PARK WWTW 43 363 100
South West Water Spratford Stream CORNER LANE PUMPING STATION 67 328 100
Wessex Water River Avill HAWKWELL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 134 302 99.7
South West Water Iron Mill Stream OAKFORD STW 29 301 92.8
South West Water River Exe TIVERTON STW 13 292 35.2
Wessex Water Back Stream BISHOPS LYDEARD WWTW 23 278 99.9
Wessex Water Doniford Stream SAMPFORD BRETT CSO 40 265 98.3
South West Water River Culm UFFCULME PUMPING STATION 56 215 100
Wessex Water Unknown TUNNEL PUMPING STATION 38 209 100
Wessex Water Pill River BILBROOK PUMPING STATION 36 208 100
Wessex Water Hillfarrance Brook HILLSMOOR WATER RECYCLING CENTRE 46 177 99.9
South West Water River Exe EXFORD STW 28 168 99.1
Wessex Water River Pill BLUE ANCHOR PUMPING STATION 19 144 100
Wessex Water Back Stream COMBE FLOREY STW 10 115 100
Wessex Water Doniford Stream BICKNOLLER CSO 48 102 99.9
South West Water River Exe BRIDGETOWN WWTW PS 6 78 100
South West Water River Culm MILLMOOR CSO 37 67 100
South West Water River Culm HEMYOCK WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 12 56 100
South West Water River Culm UFFCULME WWTW 14 50 99
Wessex Water River Avill COWBRIDGE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 17 48 93.1
South West Water River Culm HEMYOCK PSCSO/EO 17 44 100
Wessex Water Unknown 7 MILL STREET CSO 54 27 76.6
Wessex Water Bristol Channel BLENHEIM ROAD CSO 14 26 100
South West Water Stoodleigh Stream STOODLEIGH STW 27 26 100
Wessex Water Halse Water HALSE STW 14 25 100
Wessex Water River Tone HILLCOMMON PUMPING STATION 7 24 100
South West Water River Exe BRIDGE HOUSE CSO 42 22 100
South West Water Spratford Stream STATION ROAD PSCSO/EO WILLAND 6 20 77.4
Wessex Water Donniford Stream UNION LANE CSO 19 18 99.1
Wessex Water Washford River WATCHET PUMPING STATION OVERFLOW 22 17 100
South West Water River Culm WAR MEMORIAL CSO 19 10 100
Wessex Water Stogursey Brook CHURCH STREET CSO 8 10 99.8
Wessex Water Hillfarrance Brook HOUNDSMOOR LANE CSO 20 9 100
South West Water River Exe WEAVER CRESCENT CSO 18 8 100
Wessex Water River Avill WOOTTON COURTENAY PS 6 8 96.9
Wessex Water Doniford Stream STOGUMBER CSO 10 5 99.8
Wessex Water Bristol Channel GREEN SPOT CSO 2 4 100
Wessex Water Hawkcombe Stream PORLOCK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 22 3 99.5
South West Water Spratford Stream 21 LOWER TOWN CSO 6 2 81.5
Wessex Water Back Stream CHURCH STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFL 3 2 99.9
South West Water River Barle LOWER MILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 10 2 99.2
South West Water Stream 50 CASTLE PARK CSO 2 1 100
South West Water River Lowman Via Sws COWLEYMOOR ESTATE CSO 5 1 100
Wessex Water Pill River OLD CLEEVE FARM CSO 1 0 100
Wessex Water Bristol Channel QUAY WEST PUMPING STATION 1 0 100
South West Water River Lowman GOLD STREET CSO 4 0 100
South West Water River Lowman BARRINGTON STREET CSO 3 0 100
South West Water Spratford Stream BOOBERY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLO 1 0 98.1
Wessex Water Porlock Bay BOSSINGTON PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
South West Water Mill Brook IN FIELD R/0 11 GRANTLANDS 0 0 0
South West Water River Exe BAMPTON STREET CSO 0 0 100
Wessex Water River Avon FLOWER LANE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Wessex Water Porlock Bay PORLOCK WEIR PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
South West Water Wimbleball Lake BESSOM BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
South West Water Stream POUNDSHILL PSCO/EO 0 0 100
South West Water River Exe THE WALRONDS CSO 0 0 100
South West Water Cottey Brook EXETER ROAD PUMPING STATION 0 0 92.5

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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