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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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Constituencies near 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.

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