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Totals for Totnes in 2024

13 Sites polluted by South West Water

689 sewage dumps

3,884 hours duration

That's 5.39 months. On average 1.9 times a day

Change Over Time

Waterways in Totnes

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Totnes 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 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	Dart Estuary	TOTNES STW	177	1,212	100
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	DARTINGTON B CSO	84	1,202	100
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	TEXTILE MILL	77	572	94
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	DARTINGTON C CSO	39	320	95.4
South West Water	River Dart	TOTNES TOWN PUMPING STATION	105	219	97.9
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	STEAMER QUAY BRIDGETOWN CSO	43	114	100
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	SHINNER'S BRIDGE CSO	37	96	100
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	SWALLOWFIELDS CSO	30	69	97.1
South West Water	River Dart	31 FORE STREET CSO	46	37	97.8
South West Water	Malt Mill Lake	QUARRY CLOSE CSO	11	21	92.5
South West Water	River Dart Estuary Via Sws	ST KATHERINE'S WAY CSO	21	10	97.5
South West Water	Malt Mill Lake Via Sw Sewer	ST JOHNS TERRACE CSO	18	5	94.2
South West Water	Malt Mill Lake Via Sws	LOWER COLLAPARK CSO	1	0	89

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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