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Teignmouth

Polluted by sewage 237 times in 2025 lasting 956 hours

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Totals for Teignmouth in 2025

15 Sites polluted by South West Water
237 sewage dumps
956 hours duration
That's 1.33 months. 4.6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

Constituency for Teignmouth

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Teignmouth 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 Shell Cove, Lyme Bay HOLCOMBE PUMPING STATION 33 303 100
South West Water Teign Estuary KING GEORGE'S FIELD PS 24 70 100
South West Water Stream Dis To Lyme Bay WOODLAND AVE CSO 46 68 100
South West Water Lyme Bay STATION CAR PARK CSO 15 32 100
South West Water Teign Estuary BITTON PARK ROAD CSO 17 25 100
South West Water Teign Estuary BITTON PARK ROAD JCT 2ND AVENUE CSO 8 22 84.7
South West Water Teign Estuary RINGMORE ROAD CSO 14 11 93.7
South West Water Teign Estuary BITTON PARK RUGBY CLUB CSO 4 4 83.9
South West Water Bitton Brook FIRE STATION CSO 4 2 100
South West Water Ringmore Stream ORCHARD CLOSE CSO 12 1 100
South West Water River Teign Via Sws Estuarine MILFORD PARK PUMPING STATION 1 1 99.1
South West Water Teign Estuary BROADMEADOW PS 3 0 99.8
South West Water Surface Water Sewer PARK HILL CSO 2 0 100
South West Water Bitten Brook DUNNING WALK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLO 1 0 98.4
South West Water Bitton Brook Via Sws BITTON PARK ROAD JCT 2ND AVENUE CSO 0 0 99.4
South West Water Teign Estuary GALES HILL PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.9
South West Water Bitton Brook Via Sws HIGHER COOMBE DRIVE CSO 0 0 100
South West Water Ringmore Stream LAUREL LANE 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.

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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