Top of the Poops | Shellfish Area

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Totals for Salcombe in 2023

11 Sites polluted by South West Water

634 sewage dumps
5,515 h duration

That's 7.66 months. On average 1.7 times a day

How does Salcombe compare?

Salcombe was the #8 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 Salcombe 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	Sherford Stream	SHERFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	262	3,131	98.3
South West Water	Frogmore Creek	EAST CHARLETON PUMPING STATION	49	952	95.4
South West Water	Charleton Stream	WEST CHARLETON STW	70	484	100
South West Water	Kingsbridge Estuary	BRIDGE STREET QUAY CSO	90	407	100
South West Water	Blanksmill Creek	MALBOROUGH EJECTOR PS	36	189	98.9
South West Water	Kingsbridge Estuary	WESTVILLE/TACKETWOOD PS	12	167	100
South West Water	Kingsbridge Estuary	PRINCE OF WALES ROAD CSO	58	153	100
South West Water	Frogmore Creek	CHILLINGTON COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	16	9	78.2
South West Water	Kingsbridge Estuary	SOUTHVILLE EMBANKMENT PS	11	8	100
South West Water	Kingsbridge Estuary	WEST ALVINGTON CSO	27	7	100
South West Water	Chillington Stream	CHILLINGTON & FROGMORE STW	3	5	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 'Salcombe' polluted by sewage 634 times in 2023 - lasting 5,515 hours

11 Sites polluted by South West Water

Pollution Summary 2023

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