Tiverton and Minehead was polluted by sewage 3,749 times in 2024
lasting 38,529 hours - that's 4.46 years!

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Live data for Tiverton and Minehead in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 11, 2025, 4:00 PM) there has been 8,841 hours of sewage overflows - that's 1.02 years!

Totals for Tiverton and Minehead in 2024

72 Sites polluted by South West Water, Wessex Water

3,749 sewage dumps
38,529 h duration

That's 4.46 years! On average 10.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Tiverton and Minehead

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Tiverton and Minehead, 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 Tiverton and Minehead 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 83 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 Exe	TIVERTON STW	171	3,439	100
South West Water	Pulham River	BROMPTON REGIS STW	175	3,077	97.8
South West Water	River Exe	WESTEXE PUMPING STATION	148	2,721	100
South West Water	River Lyner	HOLCOMBE ROGUS WWTW	212	2,288	100
Wessex Water	Hillfarrance Brook	WIVELISCOMBE (STYLE) STW	194	2,210	99.65
South West Water	River Culm	WILLAND WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	143	1,709	97
Wessex Water	Bristol Channel	KILVE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	97	1,591	100
South West Water	Spratford Stream	SAMPFORD PEVERELL WWTW	94	1,549	100
Wessex Water	Back Stream	WEST BAGBOROUGH STW	122	1,409	100
South West Water	Unknown	HALBERTON STW	80	1,404	85.6
Wessex Water	Back Stream	COMBE FLOREY STW	60	1,328	100
Wessex Water	Washford River	BYE FARM COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	100	1,292	99.9
Wessex Water	Doniford Stream	CROWCOMBE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORK	74	1,273	99.9
Wessex Water	Bristol Channel	WATCHET SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	79	994	100
South West Water	River Lowman	LITTLE SILVER PUMPING STATION	113	972	100
Wessex Water	Hillfarrance Brook	MILVERTON WWTW	97	917	99.7
South West Water	River Exe	WINSFORD PSCSO/EO	66	891	100
South West Water	Fenacre Water	BURLESCOMBE WWTW	59	682	100
South West Water	River Culm	UFFCULME PUMPING STATION	79	658	100
South West Water	River Barle	DULVERTON WWTW	167	652	100
Wessex Water	Bristol Channel	DONIFORD PUMPING STATION	42	591	100
Wessex Water	Stogursey Brook	STOGURSEY WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	49	552	98.2
South West Water	River Exe	BRIDGETOWN WWTW PS	28	496	99.6
Wessex Water	Halse Water	SANDHILL PARK WWTW	51	491	99.4
Wessex Water	Porlock Bay Hawkcombestream	PORLOCK WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	29	475	100
South West Water	River Batherm	BAMPTON WWTW	35	359	99.7
Wessex Water	Doniford Stream	SAMPFORD BRETT CSO	47	342	94
South West Water	River Culm	CULMSTOCK SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	50	323	100
South West Water	Uplowman Stream	UPLOWMAN STW	28	310	100
South West Water	River Exe	EXFORD STW	43	302	100
South West Water	River Barle	BRUSHFORD WWTW	40	297	100
South West Water	Shuttern Brook	MOREBATH STW	98	293	99.9
Wessex Water	Unknown	MINEHEAD SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	45	286	100
Wessex Water	Monksilver Stream	MONKSILVER PUMPING STATION	29	228	100
Wessex Water	Pill River	BILBROOK PUMPING STATION	34	227	99.7
Wessex Water	River Pill	BLUE ANCHOR PUMPING STATION	24	210	100
South West Water	River Culm	HEMYOCK WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	44	203	100
Wessex Water	River Avill	HAWKWELL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	113	193	96.7
Wessex Water	Back Stream	BISHOPS LYDEARD WWTW	17	169	100
Wessex Water	Hillfarrance Brook	HILLSMOOR WATER RECYCLING CENTRE	42	157	100
South West Water	Spratford Stream	CORNER LANE PUMPING STATION	55	133	81.7
Wessex Water	Unknown	TUNNEL PUMPING STATION	33	130	99.9
Wessex Water	Doniford Stream	BICKNOLLER CSO	38	109	99.5
South West Water	River Culm	MILLMOOR CSO	33	95	100
South West Water	River Culm	HEMYOCK PSCSO/EO	20	78	100
South West Water	River Culm	UFFCULME WWTW	6	54	100
Wessex Water	Bristol Channel	BLENHEIM ROAD CSO	25	45	99.9
Wessex Water	Unknown	7 MILL STREET CSO	58	42	99.7
South West Water	Iron Mill Stream	OAKFORD STW	11	40	99.6
Wessex Water	River Avill	COWBRIDGE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	21	35	99.7
Wessex Water	Halse Water	HALSE STW	24	28	99.6
South West Water	Stoodleigh Stream	STOODLEIGH STW	14	22	100
Wessex Water	Washford River	WATCHET PUMPING STATION OVERFLOW	21	20	100
Wessex Water	Donniford Stream	UNION LANE CSO	20	17	99.4
South West Water	Spratford Stream	STATION ROAD PSCSO/EO WILLAND	11	16	100
Wessex Water	River Tone	HILLCOMMON PUMPING STATION	9	14	99.8
South West Water	River Exe	BRIDGE HOUSE CSO	32	12	100
Wessex Water	River Avill	WOOTTON COURTENAY PS	4	9	98.8
South West Water	River Culm	WAR MEMORIAL CSO	15	9	100
Wessex Water	Stogursey Brook	CHURCH STREET CSO	13	9	98.2
Wessex Water	Doniford Stream	STOGUMBER CSO	8	4	99.7
Wessex Water	Hawkcombe Stream	PORLOCK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	18	3	99.6
Wessex Water	Hillfarrance Brook	HOUNDSMOOR LANE CSO	10	2	76.4
South West Water	River Exe	WEAVER CRESCENT CSO	6	2	99.4
South West Water	River Lowman	GOLD STREET CSO	4	1	100
South West Water	River Lowman Via Sws	COWLEYMOOR ESTATE CSO	3	1	100
South West Water	River Lowman	BARRINGTON STREET CSO	5	1	100
South West Water	River Barle	LOWER MILL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	6	0	89.5
Wessex Water	Back Stream	CHURCH STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFL	3	0	99.9
South West Water	Spratford Stream	21 LOWER TOWN CSO	2	0	92.5
South West Water	Stream	50 CASTLE PARK CSO	2	0	100
Wessex Water	Bristol Channel	GREEN SPOT CSO	1	0	99.8
South West Water	River Exe	THE WALRONDS CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	Stream	POUNDSHILL PSCO/EO	0	0	100
Wessex Water	Pill River	OLD CLEEVE FARM CSO	0	0	99.6
Wessex Water	Bristol Channel	QUAY WEST PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
South West Water	River Exe	BAMPTON STREET CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	Cottey Brook	EXETER ROAD PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Wessex Water	Porlock Bay	BOSSINGTON PUMPING STATION	0	0	99.7
South West Water	Spratford Stream	BOOBERY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLO	0	0	89
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

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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