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Torbay - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,649 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 129 hours , potential overflows 960 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Torbay so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 954 hours , 744 potential
Feb - 1,536 hours , 216 potential
Mar - 147 hours
Apr - 2 hours
May - 7 hours , 1 offline
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
Aug - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
South West Water ILSHAM VALLEY SPST_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY English Channel 61 1,161h 11m -
South West Water OLD MILL RD_CSO_TORQUAY Cockington Stream To Sea 49 732h 48m -
South West Water CLEMENTS FARM SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY Aller Brook 32 509h 10m -
South West Water COCKINGTON LANE SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY 2 Ilsham Valley Stream 30 119h 23m -
South West Water CLENNON VALLEY SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON 1 English Channel 5 33h 12m 960 h
South West Water FLEET WALK 1_CSO_TORQUAY Torquay Harbour 7 16h 34m 83 h
South West Water FLEET WALK 2_CSO_TORQUAY Torquay Harbour 6 13h 44m 44 h
South West Water COCKINGTON LANE SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY 1 Ilsham Valley Stream 2 13h 29m -
South West Water BARTON HILL RD_CSO_TORQUAY Aller Brook Via Sw Sewer 16 12h 18m -
South West Water BEACON HILL_CSO_TORQUAY New Harbour Torquay 11 10h 45m -
South West Water GRANGE COURT SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON Clennon Valley Watercourse 3 9h 4m 1 h
South West Water PRESTON GREEN TANK_CSO_PAIGNTON Preston Sands 5 5h 44m -
South West Water CLENNON VALLEY SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON SD English Channel 20 3h 37m -
South West Water CLENNON VALLEY SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON 2 English Channel 1 2h 28m -
South West Water ILSHAM MARINE DRIVE_CSO_TORQUAY Tor Bay 6 2h 20m -
South West Water PAIGNTON TANK_CSO_PAIGNTON Paignton Sands 1 2h 16m -
South West Water NEWTON ROAD_CSO_TORQUAY Aller Brook 1 0h 57m -
South West Water SCOTTS BRIDGE SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY Aller Brook 1 0h 30m -
South West Water KINGS DRIVE PENSTOCK_CSO_TORQUAY Kings Drive Stream To Sea 1 0h 4m -
South West Water OLD MILL RD_CSO_TORQUAY Cockington Stream To Sea 0 0h -
South West Water LITTLEGATE ROAD_CSO_PAIGNTON English Channel 0 0h -
South West Water ILSHAM RD_CSO_TORQUAY Unknown 0 0h -
South West Water CLENNON VALLEY SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON 2 English Channel 0 0h -
South West Water LITTLEGATE ROAD_CSO_PAIGNTON English Channel 0 0h -
South West Water FLEET WALK 1_CSO_TORQUAY Torquay Harbour 0 0h -
South West Water BEACON HILL_CSO_TORQUAY New Harbour Torquay 0 0h -
South West Water BARTON HILL RD_CSO_TORQUAY Aller Brook Via Sw Sewer 0 0h -
South West Water KINGS DRIVE PENSTOCK_CSO_TORQUAY Kings Drive Stream To Sea 0 0h -
South West Water FLEET WALK 2_CSO_TORQUAY Torquay Harbour 0 0h -
South West Water ILSHAM MARINE DRIVE_CSO_TORQUAY Tor Bay 0 0h -
South West Water COCKINGTON LANE SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY 1 Ilsham Valley Stream 0 0h -
South West Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
South West Water FIRLANDS RD 1_CSO_TORQUAY River Fleet 0 0h -
South West Water SHORTON VALLEY ROAD_CSO_PAIGNTON Preston Sands 0 0h -
South West Water SCOTTS BRIDGE SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY Aller Brook 0 0h -
South West Water PAIGNTON TANK_CSO_PAIGNTON Paignton Sands 0 0h -
South West Water FIRLANDS RD 1_CSO_TORQUAY River Fleet 0 0h -
South West Water CLENNON VALLEY SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON SD English Channel 0 0h -
South West Water ILSHAM VALLEY SPST_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY English Channel 0 0h -
South West Water CLEMENTS FARM SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY Aller Brook 0 0h -
South West Water PRESTON GREEN TANK_CSO_PAIGNTON Preston Sands 0 0h -
South West Water CLENNON VALLEY SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON 1 English Channel 0 0h -
South West Water NEWTON ROAD_CSO_TORQUAY Aller Brook 0 0h -
South West Water COCKINGTON LANE SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY 2 Ilsham Valley Stream 0 0h -
South West Water FIRLANDS RD 2_CSO_TORQUAY River Fleet 0 0h -
South West Water GRANGE COURT SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON Clennon Valley Watercourse 0 0h -
South West Water SHORTON VALLEY ROAD_CSO_PAIGNTON Preston Sands 0 0h -
South West Water ILSHAM RD_CSO_TORQUAY Unknown 0 0h -
South West Water FIRLANDS RD 2_CSO_TORQUAY River Fleet 0 0h -

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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

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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