Torridge and Tavistock was polluted by sewage 7,072 times in 2024
lasting 70,874 hours - that's 8.2 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Torridge and Tavistock in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 5:45 PM) there has been 16,307 hours of sewage overflows - that's 1.89 years!

Totals for Torridge and Tavistock in 2024

85 Sites polluted by South West Water

7,072 sewage dumps
70,874 h duration

That's 8.2 years! On average 19.4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Torridge and Tavistock

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Torridge and Tavistock, 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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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Torridge and Tavistock 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 1 of the total 93 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
South West Water	Cholwell Brook	MARY TAVY WWTW	169	3,505	100
South West Water	Derril Water	PYWORTHY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	171	3,332	99.8
South West Water	Blackbrook River	PRINCETOWN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	251	3,244	100
South West Water	River Lumburn	LAMERTON STW	139	2,776	100
South West Water	River Torridge	WEARE GIFFARD WWTW	167	2,745	99.7
South West Water	Langham Lake	HIGH BICKINGTON STW	233	2,656	99.3
South West Water	Coles Stream	HOLSWORTHY (DERRITON) STW	222	2,649	100
South West Water	River Lew	BRIDESTOWE WWTW	140	2,596	99.6
South West Water	Black Brook River	BLACKBROOK-CSO-PRINCETOWN	170	2,475	96.8
South West Water	River Tamar	MILTON ABBOT WWTW	125	2,248	99.3
South West Water	Raddon Stream/Ground	LYDFORD WASTEWATER TRTMENT WORKS	147	1,988	100
South West Water	Little Mere River	PETROCKSTOWE STW	120	1,709	97.9
South West Water	River Thrushel	LEWDOWN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	131	1,696	100
South West Water	Tidal River Tamar	BERE ALSTON STW	134	1,657	100
South West Water	River Torridge	SHEBBEAR WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	107	1,656	97.3
South West Water	Unknown	KINGSCOTT STW	96	1,603	98
South West Water	River Yeo	HORNS CROSS SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	229	1,602	98.9
South West Water	Of Woolleigh Brook	ROBOROUGH STW	327	1,573	95.7
South West Water	River Torridge	DOLTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	124	1,560	100
South West Water	Unknown	BERE ALSTON STW	129	1,512	94.7
South West Water	River Walkham	HORRABRIDGE WWTW	74	1,491	100
South West Water	River Yeo	BUCKLAND BREWER STW	115	1,481	100
South West Water	River Torridge	SHEEPWASH WWTW	131	1,449	94.2
South West Water	River Tavy	CROWNDALE WWTW	91	1,428	94.8
South West Water	Abbey River	HARTLAND WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	114	1,379	100
South West Water	Mully Brook	ASHREIGNY WWTW CSO	128	1,317	74.9
South West Water	River Yeo	LITTLEHAM STW	99	1,236	100
South West Water	Unknown	WOOLFARDISWORTHY STW	85	1,149	100
South West Water	Bullow Brook	WINKLEIGH WASTEWATER TREATMENT WRKS	72	1,143	100
South West Water	River Torridge	LANGTREE STW SEPTIC TANK	117	1,122	92.8
South West Water	Of Combe Lake	STIBB CROSS STW	105	1,068	100
South West Water	River Yeo	FORD & FAIRY CROSS STW	112	809	99.4
South West Water	River Torridge	BLACK TORRINGTON WWTW	116	805	100
South West Water	Little Mere River	MERTON WWTW CSO	64	754	99.7
South West Water	Stream To Mouthmill Beach	HIGHER CLOVELLY WWTW	52	740	96.2
South West Water	River Torridge	BRADWORTHY WWTW SSO	143	738	100
South West Water	Clovelly Bay	SOUTHERN PUMPING STATION	53	698	100
South West Water	River Thrushel	BRATTON CLOVELLY WWTW CSO	115	638	100
South West Water	River Derril	DERRIL SPS	79	563	99.8
South West Water	Dodscott Brook	ST GILES IN THE WOOD STW	26	559	98.3
South West Water	Kenwith Stream	ABBOTSHAM WWTW	329	554	99.6
South West Water	Unknown	ASHWATER STW	97	536	100
South West Water	River Torridge	TORRINGTON WWTW	44	499	100
South West Water	River Tamar	BRIDGERULE WWTW	40	468	99.9
South West Water	River Deer	WEST CROFT ROAD	82	395	100
South West Water	River Tavy	TAVISTOCK COLLEGE PLAYING FIELD	94	369	99.6
South West Water	Unknown	PARKHAM STW	60	290	99.75
South West Water	River Tavy	BERE FERRERS PUMPING STATION	77	273	100
South West Water	River Tavy	CROWNDALE COTTAGES CSO	60	229	82.9
South West Water	River Tavy	WEST BRIDGE CSO	81	206	95.6
South West Water	River Deer	DOBLES LANE PSCSO/EO	39	195	100
South West Water	Silford Stream	BUCKLEIGH PUMPING STATION	32	190	100
South West Water	Mully Brook	RIDDLECOMBE WASTE WATER TREATMENT	43	151	100
South West Water	Of Common Lake Stream	TOWN PARK PUMPING STATION	88	140	100
South West Water	Castle Hill Stream	ROLLE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	72	129	91.6
South West Water	River Torridge	TORRIDGE VALE DAIRIES CSO	56	115	97.9
South West Water	River Tavy	SIPHON TELEPHONE BOX CSO	58	105	100
South West Water	River Torridge	MONKLEIGH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	72	89	95.5
South West Water	River Abby	HARTLAND PSCSO/EO	32	75	99.5
South West Water	Little Mere River	OAKLANDS CSO	7	75	100
South West Water	River Tamar	ST GILES ON THE HEATH	17	70	100
South West Water	River Torridge	TADDIPORT BRIDGE PUMPING STATION	18	65	100
South West Water	River Tavy	PIXON LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	59	42	84
South West Water	Castle Hill Stream	WATERY LANE CSO	83	40	100
South West Water	River Torridge	BIDEFORD FINE SCREENING	38	40	100
South West Water	Tiddy Brook	BISHOP MEAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	26	28	100
South West Water	Clovelly Bay	NORTHERN PUMPING STATION	2	23	100
South West Water	River Tamar Via Sws	BERE ALSTON COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	40	20	100
South West Water	River Torridge Estuary	TORRINGTON STREET PS	18	19	98.2
South West Water	River Torridge	MILL STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	2	12	100
South West Water	Common Lake Stream	DARTINGTON CLOSE PUMPING STATION	3	12	100
South West Water	Frithelstockstone Stream	FRITHELSTOCK STW	7	6	93.7
South West Water	Langham Lake	YARNSCOMBE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	3	4	100
South West Water	Pill Via Sws	CAUSEWAY CLOSE CSO	16	4	98.5
South West Water	River Torridge Estuary	ETHELWYNNE BROWN CLOSE PS	6	3	99.1
South West Water	River Claw	CLAWTON STW	11	2	100
South West Water	Kenwith Stream	WESTCOMBE LANE CSO	14	2	100
South West Water	River Torridge Estuary	APPLEDORE PS	1	2	100
South West Water	Kenwith Stream	LAUREL AVENUE CSO	6	1	98.7
South West Water	River Tavy Via Sws	PLYMOUTH ROAD CSO	2	0	100
South West Water	River Torridge	WEST LANE CSO	6	0	100
South West Water	Pill	SKERN CSO	2	0	100
South West Water	Kenwith Stream	RALEIGH HILL CSO	2	0	77.2
South West Water	River Torridge	LOWER CLEAVE PSCSO/EO	2	0	94.2
South West Water	Kenwith	MORETON PARK ROAD CSO	3	0	100
South West Water	Castle Hill Stream Via Sws	WATERY LANE CSO	0	0	98.1
South West Water	River Tavy	MOUNT HOUSE SCHOOL PS	0	0	100
South West Water	River Lyd	PLAYING FIELDS CSO	0	0	0
South West Water	River Mere	EAST YARDE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	0	0	98.7
South West Water	River Tavy Via Sws	CHURCH LANE CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Tamar	BRIDGERULE PSCSO/EO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Tamar	VICARGE GARDENS CSO MILTON ABBOT	0	0	100
South West Water	River Lyd	CHILLATON STW	0	0	98.8

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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