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Totals for Dawlish in 2025

15 Sites polluted by South West Water

392 sewage dumps

1,465 hours duration

That's 2.03 months. On average 1.1 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Dawlish in 2025. 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 place all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
South West Water	Babbacombe Bay	SMUGGLERS LANE PSEO	53	411	99.9
South West Water	Lyme Bay	SANDY LANE PUMPING STATION	46	396	100
South West Water	Shell Cove, Lyme Bay	HOLCOMBE PUMPING STATION	33	303	100
South West Water	Shutterton Brook	DAWLISH WARREN ROAD PS	39	171	100
South West Water	Lyme Bay	SANDY LANE PUMPING STATION	49	73	100
South West Water	Lyme Bay	DAWLISH BREAKWATER SSO	31	29	100
South West Water	Dawlish Water	DAWLISH SSO (BROOK STREET)	41	27	100
South West Water	Shutterton Brook	SHUTTERTON BRIDGE PS	25	23	100
South West Water	Dawlish Water	BARTON HILL/BRUNSWICK CSO	32	18	100
South West Water	Dawlish Water	VIADUCT HIGH LEVEL STORM TANK CSO	8	3	100
South West Water	Dawlish Water	WEST CLIFF COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	15	2	100
South West Water	English Channel Via Sws	49 EXETER ROAD CSO	14	2	100
South West Water	Lyme Bay	ELM GROVE CSO	4	0	100
South West Water	Lyme Bay	SEA LAWNS OUTFALL CSO, DAWLISH	1	0	100
South West Water	Lyme Bay	SEA LAWNS PUMPING STATION	1	0	100
South West Water	Dawlish Water	BROOK HOUSE SSO	0	0	98.6

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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