Top of the Poops | Shellfish Area

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Totals for Dart in 2024

29 Sites polluted by South West Water

1,374 sewage dumps

8,991 hours duration

That's 1.04 years! On average 3.8 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 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Dart 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	Dart Estuary	CORNWORTHY WWTW	103	1,574	92.4
South West Water	Dart Estuary	TOTNES STW	177	1,212	100
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	DARTINGTON B CSO	84	1,202	100
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	SCOUT HUT CSO	77	1,120	98.2
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	STOKE GABRIEL PSCSO/EO	55	773	99.8
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	TEXTILE MILL	77	572	94
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	DITTISHAM WWTW	68	434	100
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	DARTINGTON C CSO	39	320	95.4
South West Water	Old Mill Creek Via Sws	TOWNSTAL TANK CSO	36	248	100
South West Water	River Dart	TOTNES TOWN PUMPING STATION	105	219	97.9
South West Water	River Dart Via Sws	SMITH STREET CSO	94	202	100
South West Water	Yalberton Stream Via Sws	TOR PARK ROAD PUMPING STATION	30	200	100
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	FERRY BOAT INN PUMPING STATION	66	157	100
South West Water	River Harbourne	ASHPRINGTON WWTW	30	142	99.5
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	STEAMER QUAY BRIDGETOWN CSO	43	114	100
South West Water	Dittisham Mill Creek-Estuarine	MILL CREEK PUMPING STATION	32	112	100
South West Water	Bidwell Brook	SHINNER'S BRIDGE CSO	37	96	100
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	SWALLOWFIELDS CSO	30	69	97.1
South West Water	River Dart Estuary	WARFLEET CREEK PUMPING STATION	7	51	100
South West Water	Galmpton Stream	GALMPTON PUMPING STATION	32	40	99.9
South West Water	River Dart	31 FORE STREET CSO	46	37	97.8
South West Water	Gatcombe Brook	FURZEGOOD PUMPING STATION	27	22	100
South West Water	Malt Mill Lake	QUARRY CLOSE CSO	11	21	92.5
South West Water	English Channel	OVERSEAS ESTATE WEST PS	18	16	100
South West Water	River Dart Estuary Via Sws	ST KATHERINE'S WAY CSO	21	10	97.5
South West Water	Dart Estuary	PRIORY SLIP PUMPING STATION	9	7	78.4
South West Water	Malt Mill Lake Via Sw Sewer	ST JOHNS TERRACE CSO	18	5	94.2
South West Water	River Wash	TUCKENHAY BRIDGE PS	1	0	98.2
South West Water	Malt Mill Lake Via Sws	LOWER COLLAPARK CSO	1	0	89

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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Dart Polluted by sewage 1,374 times in 2024 - lasting 8,991 hours - That's 1.04 years!

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