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Camel Estuary

Polluted by sewage 364 times in 2025 - lasting 2,043 hours

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Totals for Camel Estuary in 2025

14 Sites polluted by South West Water
364 sewage dumps
2,043 hours duration
That's 2.84 months. 7 times a week, on average

How does Camel Estuary compare?

Camel Estuary was the #13 most polluted shellfish area in England & Wales, by duration of sewage overflows, as reported by the water companies

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Camel Estuary in 2025.

Accuracy Warning

We use data from the water companies, but we are seeing many anomalies that make us believe that location information is quite poor. The situation is likely far worse than reported here.

In particular: Totals on this page can differ from totals in the Ranked Shellfish page - number on this page are higher - this is due to a lack of standardization on shellfish area names. This page more accurately counts the differing names. For example "Solway" and "SOLWAY" are counted as different in the rankings, but correctly aggregated here.

Other CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s may also be located nearby, however the water companies claim that these do not affect the water quality here.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
South West Water Little Petherick Creek LITTLE PETHERICK WWTW 112 815 99.7
South West Water River Camel/St Lawrence Str BODMIN NANSTALLON WWTW 47 791 100
South West Water River Camel OLD COACH ROAD CSO 17 135 100
South West Water Camel Estuary WADEBRIDGE PS 18 106 100
South West Water River Camel Estuary PADSTOW FORESHORE PUMPING STATION 26 98 100
South West Water Bodmin Town Leat OLD JAIL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 42 27 98.5
South West Water St Lawrence Stream BLOWING HOUSE LANE CSO 23 19 99.4
South West Water St Lawrence Stream DRAGONS PIT COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 36 17 100
South West Water Camel Estuary PADSTOW HARBOUR PUMPING STATION 3 9 100
South West Water Camel Estuary PORTHILLY COVE PUMPING STATION 5 8 100
South West Water Camel Estuary ROCK PUMPING STATION 3 5 100
South West Water Camel Estuary MOYLE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 16 3 100
South West Water Lanivet Stream LANIVET INN COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 11 2 100
South West Water Camel Estuary EGLOSHAYLE PUMPING STATION 5 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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.