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Totals for Dart in 2023

29 Sites polluted by South West Water

1,458 sewage dumps
11,922 h duration

That's 1.38 years! On average 4 times a day

How does Dart compare?

Dart was the #4 most polluted shellfish area in England & Wales, by duration of sewage overflows, as reported by the water companies

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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Dart in 2023.

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 WWTW	152	2,725	100
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	SCOUT HUT CSO	84	1,409	97.3
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	DARTINGTON B CSO	98	1,396	100
South West Water	Dart Estuary	TOTNES STW	103	1,079	89
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	STOKE GABRIEL PSCSO/EO	54	854	100
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	DARTINGTON C CSO	83	749	95.5
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	TEXTILE MILL	59	544	53.4
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	FERRY BOAT INN PUMPING STATION	97	431	100
South West Water	Galmpton Stream	GALMPTON PUMPING STATION	24	405	100
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	DITTISHAM WWTW	62	380	100
South West Water	River Harbourne	ASHPRINGTON WWTW	44	375	84.6
South West Water	Yalberton Stream Via Sws	TOR PARK ROAD PUMPING STATION	38	354	100
South West Water	River Dart Via Sws	SMITH STREET CSO	104	206	100
South West Water	River Dart	TOTNES TOWN PUMPING STATION	69	157	73.9
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	STEAMER QUAY BRIDGETOWN CSO	61	142	100
South West Water	Old Mill Creek Via Sws	TOWNSTAL TANK CSO	21	134	100
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	WARFLEET CREEK PUMPING STATION	15	127	100
South West Water	Dittisham Mill Creek-Estuarine	MILL CREEK PUMPING STATION	40	122	96
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	SHINNER'S BRIDGE CSO	62	121	94
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	SWALLOWFIELDS CSO	27	63	83.7
South West Water	English Channel	OVERSEAS ESTATE WEST PS	43	30	100
South West Water	River Dart	31 FORE STREET CSO	45	28	95.3
South West Water	Malt Mill Lake	QUARRY CLOSE CSO	10	28	42
South West Water	Gatcombe Brook	FURZEGOOD PUMPING STATION	25	27	100
South West Water	River Dart Estuary Via Sws	ST KATHERINE'S WAY CSO	18	10	100
South West Water	Dart Estuary	PRIORY SLIP PUMPING STATION	8	9	92.4
South West Water	Malt Mill Lake Via Sw Sewer	ST JOHNS TERRACE CSO	10	4	87
South West Water	Malt Mill Lake Via Sws	LOWER COLLAPARK CSO	1	0	100
South West Water	English Channel	OVERSEAS ESTATE EAST PS	1	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. 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 1,458 times in 2023 - lasting 11,922 hours

29 Sites polluted by South West Water

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