Truro

Polluted by sewage 235 times in 2024 lasting 876 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Truro in 2024

16 Sites polluted by South West Water

235 sewage dumps

876 hours duration

That's 1.22 months. 4.5 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

Waterways in Truro

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Truro 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 23 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
South West Water	Truro River Estuary	TRURO (NEWHAM) STW	57	706	100
South West Water	River Kenwyn[S]	ROBERTS OPE CSO	51	72	100
South West Water	Freshwater	BOSVIGO LANE CSO	2	25	100
South West Water	River Kenwyn	VICTORIA SQUARE CSO	33	23	99.4
South West Water	River Allen	TRELANDER HIGHWAY CSO	31	16	100
South West Water	Truro River	NEWHAM ROAD PUMPING STATION	13	10	100
South West Water	River Allen	OLD BRIDGE STREET CAR PARK CSO	8	6	100
South West Water	River Kenwyn	EDWARD STREET CSO	3	4	98.3
South West Water	River Kenwyn	HENDRA ROAD CSO	21	3	100
South West Water	River Tinney	CALENICK PUMPING STATION	2	3	100
South West Water	Truro River	MORLAIX AVENUE (FYFFES SLIPWAY) CSO	4	1	100
South West Water	River Allen	PAULS TERRACE CSO	4	0	100
South West Water	River Allen Via Sws	ST CLEMENT'S HILL CSO	2	0	98.4
South West Water	River Kenwyn	FAIRMANTLE STREET CSO	1	0	100
South West Water	River Kenwyn	ST GEORGES ROAD (REAR OF NO16) CSO	1	0	96.2
South West Water	River Kenwyn	LEMON MEWS CSO	2	0	100
South West Water	River Kenwyn Via Sws	CALENICK STREET CSO	0	0	98.3
South West Water	River Allen	CAMPFIELD HILL CSO	0	0	86.2
South West Water	River Kenwyn	CASTLE STREET CSO	0	0	89.5
South West Water	River Kenwyn	FRANCES STREET CSO TRURO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Kenwyn Via Sws	KING STREET CSO	0	0	96.6
South West Water	Kenwyn River	O/S 8 CALLENICK STREET CSO	0	0	0
South West Water	River Kenwyn Via Sws	TABERNACLE STREET 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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