Top of the Poops | Shellfish Area | Taw-Torridge Estuary

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Totals for Taw-Torridge Estuary in 2024

38 Sites polluted by South West Water

1,162 sewage dumps

7,270 hours 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

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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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Taw-Torridge Estuary Polluted by sewage 1,162 times in 2024 - lasting 7,270 hours

Taw-Torridge Estuary