Barnstaple

Polluted by sewage 189 times in 2024 lasting 724 hours

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Totals for Barnstaple in 2024

8 Sites polluted by South West Water

189 sewage dumps

724 hours duration

That's 1.01 months. 3.6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

Waterways in Barnstaple

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Barnstaple 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 locality all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
South West Water	Bryn Brook	MUDDLEBRIDGE CSO	35	448	100
South West Water	Taw Estuary	POTTINGTON PUMPING STATION	38	110	100
South West Water	River Taw Estuary	ANCHORWOOD PS	22	57	53.2
South West Water	River Venn	BISHOPS TAWTON PUMPING STATION	32	52	98.8
South West Water	Bryn Brook	COMBREW LANE CSO	13	38	99
South West Water	Taw Estuary	ROCK PARK CSO	23	7	100
South West Water	Tidal River Yeo	PILTON QUAY CSO	11	6	100
South West Water	River Taw Estuary	OAKLAND PARK CSO	15	2	100
South West Water	River Yeo Via Sws	DERBY ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	100
South West Water	River Yeo Via Sws	FAIR VIEW CAR PARK CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Taw Estuary	PORTMARSH CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	Bryn Brook	SHIELING ROAD CSO	0	0	94.9

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.

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