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Totals for Dart in 2022

26 Sites polluted by South West Water

1,305 sewage dumps
6,123 h duration

That's 8.5 months. On average 3.6 times a day

How does Dart compare?

Dart was the #6 most polluted shellfish area in England & Wales, by duration of sewage overflows, as reported by the water companies

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Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Dart in 2022.

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	Dart Estuary	CORNWORTHY STW	104	1,446	100
South West Water	Dart Estuary	TOTNES STW	70	1,334	41
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	WARFLEET CREEK PUMPING STATION	364	644	100
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	DARTINGTON B CSO	50	478	100
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	SCOUT HUT CSO	39	353	100
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	DITTISHAM WWTW	54	350	63
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	DARTINGTON C CSO	42	321	68
South West Water	River Dart Via Sws	SMITH STREET CSO	94	205	96
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	TEXTILE MILL	23	172	22
South West Water	River Harbourne	ASHPRINGTON WWTW	20	159	100
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	STOKE GABRIEL PSCSO/EO	17	128	100
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	FERRY BOAT INN PUMPING STATION	68	87	100
South West Water	Old Mill Creek Via Sws	TOWNSTAL TANK CSO	23	84	33
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	SHINNER'S BRIDGE CSO	44	63	97
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	STEAMER QUAY BRIDGETOWN CSO	31	63	100
South West Water	Yalberton Stream Via Sws	TOR PARK ROAD PUMPING STATION	17	56	100
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	SWALLOWFIELDS CSO	24	38	33
South West Water	Dittisham Mill Creek-Estuarine	MILL CREEK PUMPING STATION	23	32	97
South West Water	Malt Mill Lake	QUARRY CLOSE CSO	15	32	87
South West Water	River Dart	31 FORE STREET CSO	38	24	87
South West Water	Gatcombe Brook	FURZEGOOD PUMPING STATION	21	17	100
South West Water	English Channel	OVERSEAS ESTATE WEST PS	85	14	100
South West Water	River Dart Estuary Via Sws	ST KATHERINE'S WAY CSO	19	5	100
South West Water	Galmpton Stream	GALMPTON PUMPING STATION	7	5	100
South West Water	Malt Mill Lake Via Sw Sewer	ST JOHNS TERRACE CSO	12	2	83
South West Water	Dart Estuary	PRIORY SLIP PUMPING STATION	1	0	96

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales

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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Designated shellfish area 'Dart' polluted by sewage 1,305 times in 2022 - lasting 6,123 hours

26 Sites polluted by South West Water

Pollution Summary 2022

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