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Totals for Taw-Torridge Estuary in 2025

40 Sites polluted by South West Water

919 sewage dumps

4,189 hours duration

That's 5.82 months. On average 2.5 times a day

How does Taw-Torridge Estuary compare?

Taw-Torridge Estuary 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 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Taw-Torridge Estuary 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	River Torridge	WEARE GIFFARD WWTW	115	1,340	100
South West Water	Holbeck/Wharfe	BARNSTAPLE (ASHFORD) STW	76	973	100
South West Water	River Torridge	TORRINGTON WWTW	31	270	100
South West Water	River Venn	LANDKEY PUMPING STATION	46	266	100
South West Water	Bryn Brook	MUDDLEBRIDGE CSO	21	229	100
South West Water	Silford Stream	BUCKLEIGH PUMPING STATION	20	138	100
South West Water	River Taw Estuary	ANCHORWOOD PS	44	127	95.3
South West Water	Of Common Lake Stream	TOWN PARK PUMPING STATION	77	116	100
South West Water	Bickleton Stream	FREMINGTON PILL PUMPING STATION	14	113	100
South West Water	Taw Estuary	POTTINGTON PUMPING STATION	32	88	100
South West Water	Castle Hill Stream	ROLLE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	58	74	98.4
South West Water	River Torridge	TORRIDGE VALE DAIRIES CSO	46	61	98.1
South West Water	River Torridge	BIDEFORD FINE SCREENING	31	59	100
South West Water	River Torridge	TADDIPORT BRIDGE PUMPING STATION	13	52	100
South West Water	River Torridge Estuary	INSTOW A PUMPING STATION	10	41	99.5
South West Water	Castle Hill Stream	WATERY LANE CSO	72	36	100
South West Water	River Venn	BISHOPS TAWTON PUMPING STATION	20	35	98.7
South West Water	River Torridge	TORRINGTON WWTW	11	34	99.5
South West Water	Bryn Brook	COMBREW LANE CSO	10	22	100
South West Water	Common Lake Stream	DARTINGTON CLOSE PUMPING STATION	5	16	99.9
South West Water	Tidal River Caen	VELATOR PUMPING STATION	25	14	100
South West Water	River Taw Estuary	YELLAND PUMPING STATION	27	14	100
South West Water	River Torridge Estuary	TORRINGTON STREET PS	8	11	100
South West Water	Kenwith Stream	LAUREL AVENUE CSO	11	7	97.7
South West Water	Kenwith Stream	WESTCOMBE LANE CSO	23	6	100
South West Water	Pill Via Sws	CAUSEWAY CLOSE CSO	10	6	99.5
South West Water	River Torridge Estuary	APPLEDORE PUMPING STATION	3	6	94.9
South West Water	River Torridge Estuary	ETHELWYNNE BROWN CLOSE PS	3	5	100
South West Water	Taw Estuary	ROCK PARK CSO	18	5	100
South West Water	Knowl Water Tidal Caen	VELATOR BRIDGE CSO	8	3	100
South West Water	Tidal River Yeo	PILTON QUAY CSO	4	1	100
South West Water	Pill	COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW AT SKERN	2	1	100
South West Water	Venn River	VILLAGE HALL PUMPING STATION	5	1	100
South West Water	River Torridge	LOWER CLEAVE PSCSO/EO	1	1	100
South West Water	River Taw Estuary	OAKLAND PARK CSO	6	0	100
South West Water	Kenwith Stream	RALEIGH HILL CSO	6	0	100
South West Water	River Torridge	MILL STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	3	0	100
South West Water	Bryn Brook	SHIELING ROAD CSO	1	0	100
South West Water	Kenwith	MORETON PARK ROAD CSO	2	0	100
South West Water	River Yeo Via Sws	FAIR VIEW CAR PARK CSO	1	0	94.1

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.

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