Designated shellfish area 'Taw-Torridge Estuary' polluted by sewage 1,162 times in 2024 - lasting 7,270 hours

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Totals for Taw-Torridge Estuary in 2024
38 Sites polluted by South West Water
1,162 sewage dumps
7,270 h duration
That's 10.1 months. On average 3.2 times a day
How does Taw-Torridge Estuary compare?

Taw-Torridge Estuary was the #6 most polluted shellfish area in England & Wales, by duration of sewage overflows, as reported by the water companies

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Taw-Torridge 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 Torridge WEARE GIFFARD WWTW 167 2,745 99.7
South West Water Holbeck/Wharfe BARNSTAPLE (ASHFORD) STW 113 1,613 100
South West Water River Torridge TORRINGTON WWTW 39 489 100
South West Water River Venn LANDKEY PUMPING STATION 67 484 100
South West Water Bryn Brook MUDDLEBRIDGE CSO 35 448 100
South West Water Bickleton Stream FREMINGTON PILL PUMPING STATION 27 295 100
South West Water Silford Stream BUCKLEIGH PUMPING STATION 32 190 100
South West Water Of Common Lake Stream TOWN PARK PUMPING STATION 88 140 100
South West Water Castle Hill Stream ROLLE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 72 129 91.6
South West Water River Torridge TORRIDGE VALE DAIRIES CSO 56 115 97.9
South West Water Taw Estuary POTTINGTON PUMPING STATION 38 110 100
South West Water River Torridge TADDIPORT BRIDGE PUMPING STATION 18 65 100
South West Water River Torridge Estuary INSTOW A PUMPING STATION 10 61 100
South West Water River Taw Estuary ANCHORWOOD PS 22 57 53.2
South West Water River Venn BISHOPS TAWTON PUMPING STATION 32 52 98.8
South West Water Castle Hill Stream WATERY LANE CSO 83 40 100
South West Water River Torridge BIDEFORD FINE SCREENING 38 40 100
South West Water Bryn Brook COMBREW LANE CSO 13 38 99
South West Water Tidal River Caen VELATOR PUMPING STATION 22 23 100
South West Water River Taw Estuary YELLAND PUMPING STATION 42 21 100
South West Water River Torridge Estuary TORRINGTON STREET PS 18 19 98.2
South West Water Knowl Water Tidal Caen VELATOR BRIDGE CSO 14 16 100
South West Water River Torridge MILL STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 2 12 100
South West Water Common Lake Stream DARTINGTON CLOSE PUMPING STATION 3 12 100
South West Water River Torridge TORRINGTON WWTW 5 10 100
South West Water Taw Estuary ROCK PARK CSO 23 7 100
South West Water Tidal River Yeo PILTON QUAY CSO 11 6 100
South West Water Pill Via Sws CAUSEWAY CLOSE CSO 16 4 98.5
South West Water River Torridge Estuary ETHELWYNNE BROWN CLOSE PS 6 3 99.1
South West Water Kenwith Stream WESTCOMBE LANE CSO 14 2 100
South West Water River Taw Estuary OAKLAND PARK CSO 15 2 100
South West Water River Torridge Estuary APPLEDORE PUMPING STATION 1 2 100
South West Water Kenwith Stream LAUREL AVENUE CSO 6 1 98.7
South West Water Venn River VILLAGE HALL PUMPING STATION 5 1 100
South West Water Pill COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW AT SKERN 2 0 100
South West Water Kenwith Stream RALEIGH HILL CSO 2 0 77.2
South West Water River Torridge LOWER CLEAVE PSCSO/EO 2 0 94.2
South West Water Kenwith MORETON PARK ROAD CSO 3 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.

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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