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Torbay - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,342 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 1,220 hours , potential overflows 832 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Torbay for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 713 hours , 607 offline
Feb - 324 hours , 517 offline
Mar - 10 hours
Apr - 220 hours , 14 potential
May - 11 hours , 155 potential
Jun - 43 hours
Jul - 4 hours
Aug - 67 hours , 18 potential
Sept - 61 hours
Oct - 31 hours
Nov - 129 hours
Dec - 724 hours , 619 potential
Daily data is experimental and data is not guaranteed to be accurate. Please inform us of any issue, we will fix.
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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 67 770 h 47m -
South West Water ILSHAM VALLEY SPST_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY English Channel 35 542 h 36m -
South West Water CLEMENTS FARM SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY Aller Brook 27 356 h 36m -
South West Water CLENNON VALLEY SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON 1 English Channel 19 144 h 30m -
South West Water COCKINGTON LANE SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY 2 Ilsham Valley Stream 32 77 h 57m -
South West Water CLEMENTS FARM SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY Aller Brook 8 77 h 51m -
South West Water OLD MILL RD_CSO_TORQUAY Cockington Stream To Sea 13 77 h 24m -
South West Water COCKINGTON LANE SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY 2 Ilsham Valley Stream 14 56 h 17m -
South West Water OLD MILL RD_CSO_TORQUAY Cockington Stream To Sea 27 46 h 27m -
South West Water CLENNON VALLEY SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON 1 English Channel 6 34 h 33m 643 h
South West Water FLEET WALK 1_CSO_TORQUAY Torquay Harbour 12 18 h 21m -
South West Water FLEET WALK 2_CSO_TORQUAY Torquay Harbour 13 16 h 25m -
South West Water FLEET WALK 1_CSO_TORQUAY Torquay Harbour 7 11 h 16m -
South West Water BARTON HILL RD_CSO_TORQUAY Aller Brook Via Sw Sewer 22 10 h 6m -
South West Water FLEET WALK 2_CSO_TORQUAY Torquay Harbour 7 9 h 43m -
South West Water GRANGE COURT SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON Clennon Valley Watercourse 6 9 h 21m -
South West Water GRANGE COURT SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON Clennon Valley Watercourse 5 7 h 35m -
South West Water SHORTON VALLEY ROAD_CSO_PAIGNTON Preston Sands 16 6 h 59m -
South West Water BARTON HILL RD_CSO_TORQUAY Aller Brook Via Sw Sewer 9 6 h 47m -
South West Water COCKINGTON LANE SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY 1 Ilsham Valley Stream 4 6 h 7m -
South West Water FIRLANDS RD 1_CSO_TORQUAY River Fleet 13 5 h 52m 169 h
South West Water CLENNON VALLEY SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON 2 English Channel 4 5 h 35m -
South West Water COCKINGTON LANE SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY 1 Ilsham Valley Stream 5 5 h 24m -
South West Water PRESTON GREEN TANK_CSO_PAIGNTON Preston Sands 7 5 h 8m -
South West Water PAIGNTON TANK_CSO_PAIGNTON Paignton Sands 4 4 h 26m -
South West Water BEACON HILL_CSO_TORQUAY New Harbour Torquay 7 3 h 46m 1,125 h
South West Water SCOTTS BRIDGE SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY Aller Brook 3 3 h 36m -
South West Water ILSHAM MARINE DRIVE_CSO_TORQUAY Tor Bay 8 3 h 32m 65 h
South West Water CLENNON VALLEY SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON 2 English Channel 4 3 h 16m -
South West Water ILSHAM MARINE DRIVE_CSO_TORQUAY Tor Bay 5 3 h -
South West Water PRESTON GREEN TANK_CSO_PAIGNTON Preston Sands 5 2 h 53m 30 h
South West Water ILSHAM RD_CSO_TORQUAY Unknown 4 1 h 46m 18 h
South West Water CLENNON VALLEY SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON SD English Channel 12 0 h 54m -
South West Water KINGS DRIVE PENSTOCK_CSO_TORQUAY Kings Drive Stream To Sea 1 0 h 53m -
South West Water SHORTON VALLEY ROAD_CSO_PAIGNTON Preston Sands 3 0 h 51m -
South West Water LITTLEGATE ROAD_CSO_PAIGNTON English Channel 2 0 h 47m -
South West Water BEACON HILL_CSO_TORQUAY New Harbour Torquay 2 0 h 38m -
South West Water SCOTTS BRIDGE SPS_PSCSOEO_TORQUAY Aller Brook 1 0 h 31m -
South West Water KINGS DRIVE PENSTOCK_CSO_TORQUAY Kings Drive Stream To Sea 2 0 h 27m -
South West Water ILSHAM RD_CSO_TORQUAY Unknown 1 0 h 24m -
South West Water NEWTON ROAD_CSO_TORQUAY Aller Brook 1 0 h 23m -
South West Water CLENNON VALLEY SPS_PSCSOEO_PAIGNTON SD English Channel 5 0 h 18m -
South West Water Unknown Unknown 1 0 h 9m -
South West Water LITTLEGATE ROAD_CSO_PAIGNTON English Channel 0 0 h -
South West Water FIRLANDS RD 1_CSO_TORQUAY River Fleet 0 0 h -
South West Water PAIGNTON TANK_CSO_PAIGNTON Paignton Sands 0 0 h -
South West Water NEWTON ROAD_CSO_TORQUAY Aller Brook 0 0 h -
South West Water FIRLANDS RD 2_CSO_TORQUAY River Fleet 0 0 h -
South West Water FIRLANDS RD 2_CSO_TORQUAY River Fleet 0 0 h -

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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