Designated shellfish area 'Fal Estuary' polluted by sewage 1,978 times in 2023 - lasting 16,688 hours

Totals for Fal Estuary in 2023

41 Sites polluted by South West Water

1,978 sewage dumps
16,688 h duration

That's 1.93 years! On average 5.4 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 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Fal Estuary 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	Unknown	CHACEWATER STW	133	2,815	100
South West Water	River Kennall	39 ST MICHAELS COMBINED SEWER OF	153	2,411	96.7
South West Water	Mylor Creek	MYLOR BRIDGE WWTW	121	2,192	100
South West Water	Carnon River	CARNON DOWNS WWTW	290	1,242	99.5
South West Water	Penryn River	COMMERCIAL ROAD PUMPING STATION	89	1,159	100
South West Water	Penryn River	FALMOUTH STW INLET & STORM PS	60	1,079	100
South West Water	Tresillian River Estuary	LADOCK VALLEY STW	69	902	100
South West Water	Praze Stream	PRAZE TANK CSO	77	726	100
South West Water	Truro River Estuary	NEWHAM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	56	709	100
South West Water	Unknown	CHACEWATER STW	44	589	48.3
South West Water	Mylor Creek	MYLOR BRIDGE WWTW	82	451	100
South West Water	Pill Creek	LOWER TREVILLA PUMPING STATION	46	438	100
South West Water	Penryn River	FLUSHING PUMPING STATION	96	425	100
South West Water	Mylor Creek	MYLOR BRIDGE PSCSO/EO	28	248	100
South West Water	River Kenwyn	VICTORIA SQUARE CSO	47	230	100
South West Water	Carrick Roads	ST MAWES NO.1 PS	22	208	100
South West Water	Penryn River	CSO IN HIGH STREET	78	202	100
South West Water	Carnon River	QUENCHWELL PUMPING STATION	26	202	100
South West Water	River Fal	TREGONY BRIDGE PUMPING STATION	10	93	100
South West Water	River Allen Via Sws	ST CLEMENT'S HILL CSO	4	51	89.3
South West Water	Penryn River	CSO AT KILLIGREW STREET	78	50	100
South West Water	Unknown	BLACKWATER STW	62	44	100
South West Water	Penryn River	CSO AT NORTH PARADE	41	41	100
South West Water	Penryn River	WEBBER STREET CSO	42	25	100
South West Water	Truro River	NEWHAM ROAD PUMPING STATION	25	23	100
South West Water	Penryn River	ST THOMAS STREET CSO	24	22	93.5
South West Water	River Allen	TRELANDER HIGHWAY CSO	34	19	100
South West Water	Penryn River	GROVE PLACE NO.1 CSO	10	14	82.3
South West Water	River Kenwyn	FRANCES STREET CSO TRURO	2	12	66.5
South West Water	River Kenwyn	EDWARD STREET CSO	16	10	100
South West Water	River Tinney	CALENICK PUMPING STATION	7	9	100
South West Water	Penryn River	CSO AT DUNSTANVILLE TERRACE	44	6	100
South West Water	River Kenwyn	HENDRA ROAD CSO	26	6	100
South West Water	Penryn River	OLD HILL PS	8	6	100
South West Water	River Kenwyn Via Sws	CALENICK STREET CSO	3	4	70.4
South West Water	River Carnon Estuary	DEVORAN PUMPING STATION	2	2	100
South West Water	River Allen	OLD BRIDGE STREET CAR PARK CSO	5	2	100
South West Water	Truro River	MORLAIX AVENUE (FYFFES SLIPWAY) CSO	7	0	100
South West Water	River Allen	PAULS TERRACE CSO	3	0	84.4
South West Water	River Allen	CAMPFIELD HILL CSO	2	0	100
South West Water	Penryn River	TEHIDY TERRACE CSO	6	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.

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