Top of the Poops | Place | Looe| Polluted by South West Water

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Totals for Looe in 2024

5 Sites polluted by South West Water

245 sewage dumps

617 hours duration

That's 25.71 days. 4.7 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Looe 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 1 of the total 5 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
South West Water	Looe River	HEALTH CENTRE CAR PARK PSEO/CSO	75	246	100
South West Water	Looe Bay	HANNAFORE PUMPING STATION	59	136	100
South West Water	Looe Bay	PLAIDY PUMP STATION	72	96	100
South West Water	Looe River	WEST LOOE SQUARE CSO	29	91	100
South West Water	Looe River	LOOE BULLER QUAY	10	46	24.3

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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Looe Polluted by sewage 245 times in 2024 lasting 617 hours Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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