Torbay was polluted by sewage 426 times in 2024
lasting 3,762 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Torbay in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:00 PM) there has been 1,132 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Torbay in 2024
13 Sites polluted by South West Water
426 sewage dumps
3,762 h duration
That's 5.22 months. On average 1.2 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 Torbay, 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 Torbay 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 3 of the total 23 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 3 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
South West Water English Channel ILSHAM VALLEY PUMPING STATION 135 2,015 100
South West Water Aller Brook CLEMENTS FARM PUMPING STATION 64 1,175 100
South West Water English Channel CLENNON VALLEY PUMPING STATION 42 261 96.5
South West Water Aller Brook Via Sw Sewer BARTON HILL ROAD CSO 67 106 100
South West Water Cockington Stream To Sea OLD MILL ROAD 39 92 97.4
South West Water Torquay Harbour FLEET WALK NO.1 CSO 24 39 100
South West Water Ilsham Valley Stream ILSHAM ROAD CSO 12 35 100
South West Water Torquay Harbour FLEET WALK NO.2 CSO 23 29 100
South West Water Preston Sands PRESTON GREEN ATTENUATION TANK 7 3 100
South West Water Clennon Valley Watercourse TORBAY (BROKENBURY) STW INLET PS/ 2 2 66.7
South West Water New Harbour Torquay BEACON HILL 9 1 76.7
South West Water Paignton Sands PAIGNTON GREEN TANK PSCSO/EO 1 0 100
South West Water Unknown ILSHAM ROAD CSO 1 0 100
South West Water Tor Bay ILSHAM MARINE DRIVE CSO 0 0 92.9
South West Water English Channel BEACH ROAD (MIDDLE) 0 0 0
South West Water Aller Brook IVY COTTAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 92.2
South West Water River Fleet FIRLANDS ROAD 1 CSO 0 0 95.9
South West Water Aller Brook SCOTTS BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
South West Water English Channel BEACH ROAD (UPPER) 0 0 0
South West Water River Fleet FIRLANDS ROAD 2 CSO 0 0 100
South West Water English Channel BEACH ROAD PSCSO/EO 0 0 0
South West Water Kings Drive Stream To Sea KINGS DRIVE CSO 0 0 100
South West Water English Channel LITTLEGATE ROAD 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.

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