Falmouth

Polluted by sewage 675 times in 2024 lasting 3,913 hours

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Totals for Falmouth in 2024

16 Sites polluted by South West Water

675 sewage dumps

3,913 hours duration

That's 5.43 months. On average 1.8 times a day

Change Over Time

Waterways in Falmouth

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Falmouth 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	Penryn River	COMMERCIAL ROAD PUMPING STATION	96	1,274	100
South West Water	Falmouth Bay/ Bickland Wat	SWANVALE PUMPING STATION	77	1,243	100
South West Water	Penryn River	FALMOUTH STW INLET & STORM PS	31	417	100
South West Water	Penryn River	FLUSHING PUMPING STATION	53	347	100
South West Water	Penryn River	CSO IN HIGH STREET	92	250	100
South West Water	Penryn River	CSO OFF PENDARVES ROAD	60	93	81
South West Water	Penryn River	OLD HILL PS	12	75	92.2
South West Water	Penryn River	CSO AT KILLIGREW STREET	51	57	99.5
South West Water	Penryn River	WEBBER STREET CSO	67	43	100
South West Water	Penryn River	CSO AT NORTH PARADE	42	40	100
South West Water	Penryn River	CSO AT DUNSTANVILLE TERRACE	41	35	100
South West Water	Penryn River	ST THOMAS STREET CSO	28	23	97.3
South West Water	Falmouth Bay	QUEEN MARY GARDENS PUMPING STATION	12	4	87.6
South West Water	Penryn River	GROVE PLACE NO.1 CSO	10	3	100
South West Water	Penryn River	TEHIDY TERRACE CSO	2	0	100
South West Water	Swanpool	SWANPOOL PSCSO/EO	1	0	100
South West Water	Penryn River	CSO AT MARKET STREET	0	0	100
South West Water	Penryn River	OLD HILL (TRESAWLE RD) CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	Maenporth Stream	PENNANCE MILL TIDAL TANKS CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	Penryn River	PRINCE OF WALES PUMPING STATION	0	0	100

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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Falmouth Polluted by sewage 675 times in 2024 lasting 3,913 hours

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