Designated shellfish area 'Fal Estuary' polluted by sewage 1,513 times in 2022 - lasting 9,245 hours

Totals for Fal Estuary in 2022

41 Sites polluted by South West Water

1,513 sewage dumps
9,245 h duration

That's 1.07 years! On average 4.1 times a day

How does Fal Estuary compare?

Fal 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 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Fal Estuary 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	Unknown	CHACEWATER STW	117	2,480	100
South West Water	Mylor Creek	MYLOR BRIDGE WWTW	79	1,217	100
South West Water	River Kennall	39 ST MICHAELS COMBINED SEWER OF	99	1,107	100
South West Water	Penryn River	COMMERCIAL ROAD PUMPING STATION	87	686	87
South West Water	Tresillian River Estuary	LADOCK VALLEY STW	38	506	100
South West Water	Carnon River	CARNON DOWNS WWTW	218	502	100
South West Water	Pill Creek	LOWER TREVILLA PUMPING STATION	32	414	100
South West Water	Penryn River	FALMOUTH STW INLET & STORM PS	39	385	100
South West Water	Praze Stream	PRAZE TANK CSO	37	287	100
South West Water	Mylor Creek	MYLOR BRIDGE WWTW	148	275	100
South West Water	Truro River Estuary	TRURO (NEWHAM) STW	25	266	100
South West Water	Penryn River	FLUSHING PUMPING STATION	90	215	100
South West Water	Mylor Creek	MYLOR BRIDGE PSCSO/EO	17	145	100
South West Water	Carnon River	QUENCHWELL PUMPING STATION	34	138	100
South West Water	River Fal	TREGONY BRIDGE PUMPING STATION	22	127	100
South West Water	River Allen Via Sws	ST CLEMENT'S HILL CSO	7	109	90
South West Water	Unknown	CHACEWATER STW	10	109	53
South West Water	Penryn River	CSO OFF PENDARVES ROAD	75	90	75
South West Water	Truro River	PUMPING STATION AT NEWHAM	28	38	100
South West Water	River Kenwyn	VICTORIA SQUARE CSO	32	20	100
South West Water	Penryn River	GROVE PLACE NO.1 CSO	15	18	100
South West Water	River Kenwyn Via Sws	CALENICK STREET CSO	49	16	70
South West Water	River Allen	TRELANDER HIGHWAY CSO	29	12	100
South West Water	Unknown	BLACKWATER STW	35	10	100
South West Water	Penryn River	CSO AT DUNSTANVILLE TERRACE	37	10	100
South West Water	Penryn River	OLD HILL PS	9	8	94
South West Water	Penryn River	ST THOMAS STREET CSO	11	7	97
South West Water	Penryn River	CSO AT KILLIGREW STREET	8	6	100
South West Water	Carrick Roads	ST MAWES NO.1 PS	19	6	100
South West Water	Penryn River	CSO AT NORTH PARADE	10	6	96
South West Water	River Allen	PAULS TERRACE CSO	7	2	52
South West Water	Penryn River	PRINCE OF WALES PUMPING STATION	5	2	100
South West Water	River Kenwyn	HENDRA ROAD CSO	24	2	94
South West Water	River Tinney	CALENICK PUMPING STATION	2	1	100
South West Water	River Kenwyn	EDWARD STREET CSO	4	1	100
South West Water	Unknown	VICTORIA QUAY PSCSO/EO	2	1	77
South West Water	River Allen	CAMPFIELD HILL CSO	3	0	100
South West Water	River Carnon Estuary	DEVORAN PUMPING STATION	2	0	100
South West Water	Tresillian River Estuary	BOAT YARD PS CSO/EO	2	0	100
South West Water	Penryn River	TEHIDY TERRACE CSO	5	0	81
South West Water	River Kenwyn Via Sws	TABERNACLE STREET CSO	1	0	81

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 'Fal Estuary' polluted by sewage 1,513 times in 2022 - lasting 9,245 hours

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