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Torbay was polluted by sewage 557 times in 2023
lasting 4,267 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Torbay in 2023

16 Sites polluted by South West Water

557 sewage dumps
4,267 h duration

That's 5.93 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Torbay

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Torbay 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 4 of the total 24 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 4 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
South West Water	English Channel	ILSHAM VALLEY PUMPING STATION	140	2,003	100
South West Water	Cockington Stream To Sea	OLD MILL ROAD	111	1,468	100
South West Water	English Channel	CLENNON VALLEY PUMPING STATION	47	279	82.43
South West Water	Ilsham Valley Stream	ILSHAM ROAD CSO	78	212	100
South West Water	Aller Brook	CLEMENTS FARM PUMPING STATION	21	154	90.2
South West Water	Aller Brook Via Sw Sewer	BARTON HILL ROAD CSO	64	60	100
South West Water	Torquay Harbour	FLEET WALK NO.1 CSO	22	32	100
South West Water	Torquay Harbour	FLEET WALK NO.2 CSO	23	31	100
South West Water	Clennon Valley Watercourse	TORBAY (BROKENBURY) STW INLET PS/	9	8	100
South West Water	Preston Sands	PRESTON GREEN ATTENUATION TANK	10	5	100
South West Water	New Harbour Torquay	BEACON HILL	21	3	97.3
South West Water	Paignton Sands	PAIGNTON GREEN TANK PSCSO/EO	5	3	100
South West Water	Kings Drive Stream To Sea	KINGS DRIVE CSO	1	1	100
South West Water	Aller Brook	IVY COTTAGE PUMPING STATION	1	0	100
South West Water	English Channel	LITTLEGATE ROAD CSO	3	0	87.5
South West Water	River Fleet	FIRLANDS ROAD 1 CSO	1	0	100
South West Water	English Channel	BEACH ROAD (MIDDLE)	0	0	0
South West Water	Aller Brook	SCOTTS BRIDGE PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
South West Water	English Channel	BEACH ROAD	0	0	0
South West Water	Tor Bay	ILSHAM MARINE DRIVE CSO	0	0	41.8
South West Water	English Channel	BEACH ROAD PSCSO/EO	0	0	0
South West Water	English Channel	BEACH ROAD (UPPER)	0	0	0
South West Water	River Fleet	FIRLANDS ROAD 2 CSO	0	0	84.5
South West Water	Unknown	ILSHAM 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.

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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