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Newton Abbot

Polluted by sewage 576 times in 2025 lasting 3,825 hours

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Totals for Newton Abbot in 2025

26 Sites polluted by South West Water

576 sewage dumps

3,825 hours duration

That's 5.31 months. On average 1.6 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Newton Abbot 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	River Lemon	EAST OGWELL WWTW	68	1,098	100
South West Water	English Channel	BUCKLAND WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	75	953	100
South West Water	Aller Brook	THE OLD ORCHARD CSO	82	360	100
South West Water	River Teign	THE BUTTS PS	36	310	100
South West Water	River Teign Via S/W Sewer	FORDE ROAD PSCSO/EO	31	291	100
South West Water	Sewer To Aller Brook	KEYBERRY RD NO.5 CSO	24	127	98.1
South West Water	Sws To Aller Brook	QUEENSWAY PUMPING STATION	20	124	100
South West Water	Surface Water Sewer	O/S 4 KEYBERRY ROAD CSO	23	107	91.2
South West Water	O Riv.Teign Via Sw Sewer	HOMERS LANE CSO	21	106	100
South West Water	Aller Brook	ST MARYCHURCH ROAD CSO	32	103	100
South West Water	River Lemon	OPP 65 HIGHWEEK ROAD CSO	8	58	98.9
South West Water	River Lemon	BARTON DRIVE CSO	19	43	100
South West Water	S/W Sewer To Aller Brook	FORDE PARK/TORQUAY ROAD CSO	36	41	95.9
South West Water	River Teign	ELM ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	15	34	100
South West Water	Aller Brook	TORQUAY ROAD CSO	32	30	97.5
South West Water	River Teign	HACKNEY PS	6	8	100
South West Water	Aller Brook	SANDRINGHAM PARK CSO	7	5	100
South West Water	River Lemon Via Sws	QUEEN STREET CSO	1	4	100
South West Water	Aller Brook	KEYBERRY ROAD NO.18 CSO	6	4	91.2
South West Water	Surface Water Sewer	ALLER BRAKE ROAD CSO	10	3	93.5
South West Water	River Lemon	CLOCKTOWER CSO	8	1	100
South West Water	Wolborough Stream	COACH ROAD CSO	4	0	96.7
South West Water	River Lemon	OLD TOTNES ROAD CSO	4	0	99.9
South West Water	River Lemon	MARKET WALK CSO	3	0	100
South West Water	River Lemon	NO 15 LEMON ROAD CSO	3	0	100
South West Water	Aller Brook	LOWICKE HOUSE PS	2	0	99.5
South West Water	O River Lemon Via Sw Sewr	BANK STREET CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Lemon Via Sws	BARTON DRIVE CSO	0	0	97.9
South West Water	River Lemon	BRUNSWICK HOUSE CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Teign	FIELD NEAR WAR MEMORIAL CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	Netherton Brook	HIGHER NETHERTON SPS	0	0	100
South West Water	Aller Brook	KEYBERRY ROAD NO 2	0	0	91.2
South West Water	Aller Brook	O/S 11 KINGSTEIGNTON ROAD CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	S/W Sewer Then To Whitelake	PITT HILL ROAD CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Lemon Via Sws	TEMPLERS ROAD CSO	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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