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Polluted by sewage 426 times in 2024 lasting 3,762 hours
Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more
So far this year (as of May 30, 2025, 8:45 AM) there has been 1,449 hours of sewage overflows
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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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Donate NowHere 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 these 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 |
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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