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Totals for Salcombe in 2025

10 Sites polluted by South West Water

287 sewage dumps

1,539 hours duration

That's 2.14 months. 5.5 times a week, on average

How does Salcombe compare?

Salcombe was the #18 most polluted shellfish area in England & Wales, by duration of sewage overflows, as reported by the water companies

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Salcombe in 2025.

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 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s 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	Charleton Stream	WEST CHARLETON STW	46	390	100
South West Water	Chillington Stream	CHILLINGTON & FROGMORE STW	28	284	100
South West Water	Sherford Stream	SHERFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	50	282	99.8
South West Water	Frogmore Creek	EAST CHARLETON PUMPING STATION	15	221	99.4
South West Water	Kingsbridge Estuary	BRIDGE STREET QUAY CSO	50	141	100
South West Water	Blanksmill Creek	MALBOROUGH EJECTOR PS	28	108	100
South West Water	Kingsbridge Estuary	PRINCE OF WALES ROAD CSO	35	59	100
South West Water	Frogmore Stream	HOME CLOSE PUMPING STATION	2	25	100
South West Water	Frogmore Creek	CHILLINGTON COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	25	13	100
South West Water	Kingsbridge Estuary	SOUTHVILLE EMBANKMENT PS	8	10	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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.

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