Designated shellfish area 'Camel Estuary' polluted by sewage 479 times in 2024 - lasting 3,058 hours

Totals for Camel Estuary in 2024

14 Sites polluted by South West Water

479 sewage dumps
3,058 h duration

That's 4.25 months. On average 1.3 times a day

How does Camel Estuary compare?

Camel Estuary was the #16 most polluted shellfish area in England & Wales, by duration of sewage overflows, as reported by the water companies

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Camel Estuary in 2024.

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 CSOs 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	River Camel/St Lawrence Str	BODMIN NANSTALLON WWTW	92	1,625	100
South West Water	Little Petherick Creek	LITTLE PETHERICK WWTW	107	908	98.3
South West Water	River Camel Estuary	PADSTOW FORESHORE PUMPING STATION	33	156	99.7
South West Water	St Lawrence Stream	DRAGONS PIT COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	75	86	100
South West Water	Camel Estuary	WADEBRIDGE PS	22	74	100
South West Water	St Lawrence Stream	BLOWING HOUSE LANE CSO	55	65	100
South West Water	River Camel	OLD COACH ROAD CSO	9	51	100
South West Water	Camel Estuary	PADSTOW HARBOUR PUMPING STATION	3	28	100
South West Water	Camel Estuary	PORTHILLY COVE PUMPING STATION	16	26	100
South West Water	Bodmin Town Leat	OLD JAIL COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	36	25	100
South West Water	Camel Estuary	MOYLE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	14	6	100
South West Water	Camel Estuary	ROCK PUMPING STATION	2	2	100
South West Water	Lanivet Stream	LANIVET INN COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	14	2	100
South West Water	Camel Estuary	EGLOSHAYLE PUMPING STATION	1	0	97.5

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. This 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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