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Totals for Exe Estuary in 2024

68 Sites polluted by South West Water

2,058 sewage dumps

14,629 hours duration

That's 1.69 years! On average 5.6 times a day

How does Exe Estuary compare?

Exe Estuary was the #2 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 Exe 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 Clyst	EBFORD PUMPING STATION	175	3,393	97.8
South West Water	Woodbury Brook	WOODBURY WWTW	133	2,201	100
South West Water	River Clyst	EXTON NORTH PS	94	1,305	100
South West Water	Woodbury Brook	EXTON SOUTH PUMPING STATION	88	1,204	100
South West Water	English Channel	MAER PUMPING STATION & TANK CSO	76	870	100
South West Water	Lyme Bay	EXMOUTH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	65	747	100
South West Water	Exe Estuary	HARTOPP ROAD CSO	82	659	100
South West Water	Exe Estuary	PHEAR PARK PSEO/CSO	51	625	100
South West Water	Tidal River Exe	BONHAY ROAD CSO	45	361	92.8
South West Water	River Clyst	CLYST HONITON PUMPING STATION	34	354	100
South West Water	River Exe Estuary	EXETER (COUNTESS WEAR) STW	103	321	100
South West Water	Higher Leat Via Sw Sewer	LOWER NORTH STREET CSO	70	204	100
South West Water	Higher Least Via Sw Sewer	PENNSYLVANIA ROAD CSO	51	157	100
South West Water	Grindle Brook Via Sws	OLD WOODBURY SALTERTON STW CSO	24	144	98.2
South West Water	Mill Race, River Exe	MILL RACE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	36	144	100
South West Water	River Exe Estuary	EXETER (COUNTESS WEAR) STW	34	138	100
South West Water	Woodbury Brook	HAM LANE CSO	58	137	100
South West Water	Shutterton Brook	DAWLISH WARREN ROAD PS	76	137	99.9
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	CHURCH ROAD JCT OF CECIL ROAD CSO	19	133	100
South West Water	Exe Estuary	IMPERIAL ROAD TANK CSO	19	123	98.4
South West Water	River Kenn	SLITTERCOMBE LANE PSCSO/EO	34	122	98
South West Water	Berry Brook	MILBURY LANE PUMPING STATION	46	106	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	DUNSFORD ROAD CSO	42	100	79.9
South West Water	Northbrook	NORTHBROOK GOLF COURSE LOWER CSO	21	64	98.2
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	HOLLOWAY STREET CSO	29	63	100
South West Water	Exe Estuary	ASH GROVE CSO	28	57	100
South West Water	Nadder Brook	BROOK COTTAGE PUMPING STATION	13	55	100
South West Water	Northbrook	NORTHBROOK PARK GOLF CRSE UPPER CSO	23	52	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	TEMPLE ROAD CSO	30	50	100
South West Water	Alphin Brook	CHURCH ROAD CSO	30	50	85.5
South West Water	Cofton Stream	COFTON PSCSO/EO	11	49	100
South West Water	Fordland Brook	THE COLLEGE IDE CSO	30	42	95.8
South West Water	River Exe	BONHAY PARK CSO	9	38	99.5
South West Water	River Clyst Valley Via Sws	BROADCLYST (SIDE) PUMPING STATION	24	37	100
South West Water	Higher Leat Via Sws	HOWELL ROAD CSO	3	36	100
South West Water	Mincinglake Stream	121A ST. KATHERINES ROAD CSO	12	36	100
South West Water	Cranny Brook	CHURCH ROAD CSO	8	36	100
South West Water	River Exe Estuary	LYMPSTONE OUTFALL PUMPING STATION	31	27	100
South West Water	River Exe	FOLLET ROAD CSO	37	26	100
South West Water	Withycombe Brook	EXETER ROAD CSO - EXMOUTH	25	25	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	COLLETON GROVE CSO	19	23	97.7
South West Water	Higher Leat Via Sw Sewer	WELL STREET CSO	22	22	99.7
South West Water	Shutterton Brook	SHUTTERTON BRIDGE PS	17	18	94
South West Water	Northbrook	SWEETBRIER LANE CSO	16	18	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	MAGDALEN ROAD CSO	19	18	98.2
South West Water	Pin Brook	LANGATON LANE CSO	20	15	95.8
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	19 HEAVITREE ROAD CSO	21	10	100
South West Water	Shutterton Brook	SHUTTERTON BRIDGE PS	16	9	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	23 KING EDWARD STREET CSO	11	6	85.8
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	OKEHAMPTON ROAD CSO	7	5	100
South West Water	Northbrook Via Sws	PARKLAND DRIVE PUMPING STATION	2	5	95.2
South West Water	Taddiforde Brook	R/O IMPERIAL HOTEL CSO	14	5	99
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	LARKBEARE HOUSE CSO	6	4	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	BUDDLE LANE CSO	7	2	90.2
South West Water	Higher Leat	EXE STREET CSO	2	2	100
South West Water	Berry Brook	MAIN ROAD CSO	9	1	98.4
South West Water	River Exe	MILL ROAD PUMPING STATION	8	1	100
South West Water	North Brook Via Sws	FIRST AVENUE SERVICE LANE CSO	6	1	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	PARIS STREET CSO	2	1	100
South West Water	River Exe	NEWPORT PARK PUMPING STATION	1	0	100
South West Water	Cofton Stream	SHIP INN CSO	2	0	84.3
South West Water	Alphin Brook	TAN LANE PUMPING STATION	1	0	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	CHUTE STREET CSO	2	0	93
South West Water	North Brook Via Sws	NORTH LAWN COURT CSO	2	0	100
South West Water	Higher Leat Via Sws	CENTRAL STATION YARD CSO	1	0	87.4
South West Water	North Brook Via Sws	HEAVITREE PLEASURE GROUND CSO	3	0	96.3
South West Water	Higher Leat Via Sw Sewer	QUAY HILL CSO	1	0	90.1
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	EXETER BOWLING CLUB CSO	2	0	99.4

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.

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Exe Estuary Polluted by sewage 2,058 times in 2024 - lasting 14,629 hours - That's 1.69 years!

Exe Estuary