Designated shellfish area 'Teign Estuary' polluted by sewage 1,954 times in 2024 - lasting 18,313 hours

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Totals for Teign Estuary in 2024
54 Sites polluted by South West Water
1,954 sewage dumps
18,313 h duration
That's 2.12 years! On average 5.4 times a day
How does Teign Estuary compare?

Teign Estuary was the #1 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 Teign 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 Bovey HEATHFIELD STW 145 2,826 99.7
South West Water Aller Brook COMPTON CASTLE CSO 144 2,069 97.3
South West Water River Teign CHUDLEIGH WWTW 125 2,021 99.2
South West Water English Channel BUCKLAND WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 116 1,591 99.2
South West Water River Lemon EAST OGWELL WWTW 92 1,533 100
South West Water Liverton Brook SUMMERHILL PUMPING STATION 98 1,482 91.8
South West Water Wray Brook LUSTLEIGH WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORK 88 1,313 99.9
South West Water Arch Brook STOKEINTEIGNHEAD PUMPING STATION 81 634 95.9
South West Water River Teign THE BUTTS PS 62 478 100
South West Water River Lemon BARTON DRIVE CSO 49 414 100
South West Water River Teign CHUDLEIGH KNIGHTON WWTW 78 409 100
South West Water Netherton Brook HIGHER NETHERTON SPS 20 398 100
South West Water River Teign CHUDLEIGH WWTW 106 359 99.1
South West Water Aller Brook ST MARYCHURCH ROAD CSO 49 352 100
South West Water Aller Brook THE OLD ORCHARD CSO 80 294 88.6
South West Water Surface Water Sewer O/S 4 KEYBERRY ROAD CSO 51 268 96.2
South West Water River Teign Via S/W Sewer FORDE ROAD PSCSO/EO 32 226 100
South West Water O Teign Estuary STOCKMEADOW HOUSE CSO 66 195 100
South West Water Aller Brook COMPTON AND MARLDON WWTW 38 184 97
South West Water Teign Estuary BITTON PARK ROAD JCT 2ND AVENUE CSO 32 155 86.8
South West Water River Teign CHUDLEIGH KNIGHTON WWTW 15 139 99.7
South West Water Sws To Aller Brook QUEENSWAY PUMPING STATION 24 119 100
South West Water Sewer To Aller Brook KEYBERRY RD NO.5 CSO 22 102 97.7
South West Water River Teign TEIGN VILLAGE WWTW 33 99 96.2
South West Water River Bovey AYLIFFE'S BRIDGE CSO 30 85 98.3
South West Water Teign Estuary BISHOPSTEIGNTON PS 12 80 98
South West Water Teign Estuary KING GEORGE'S FIELD PS 28 75 99.7
South West Water River Lemon OLD TOTNES ROAD CSO 14 75 90.7
South West Water River Teign BUNKERS BRIDGE CSO 40 75 98
South West Water S/W Sewer To Aller Brook FORDE PARK/TORQUAY ROAD CSO 42 40 92.6
South West Water River Teign ELM ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 17 33 100
South West Water River Lemon OPP 65 HIGHWEEK ROAD CSO 3 31 100
South West Water Teign Estuary RINGMORE ROAD CSO 21 25 96.5
South West Water River Teign HACKNEY PS 5 24 100
South West Water Aller Brook TORQUAY ROAD CSO 28 19 100
South West Water River Bovey BOVEY BRIDGE CSO 2 16 93
South West Water Teign Estuary BITTON PARK RUGBY CLUB CSO 6 11 95.3
South West Water Aller Brook KEYBERRY ROAD NO.18 CSO 3 9 100
South West Water River Bovey Via Sws A382 BYPASS VERGE CSO 3 8 92.9
South West Water River Lemon Via Sws TEMPLERS ROAD CSO 1 5 71.5
South West Water Surface Water Sewer ALLER BRAKE ROAD CSO 17 4 98.8
South West Water Ringmore Stream ORCHARD CLOSE CSO 9 3 100
South West Water Aller Brook SANDRINGHAM PARK CSO 5 3 100
South West Water River Teign Via Sws Estuarine MILFORD PARK PUMPING STATION 2 3 100
South West Water River Lemon Via Sws BARTON DRIVE CSO 1 2 100
South West Water River Lemon NO 15 LEMON ROAD CSO 3 2 98.6
South West Water Aller Brook LOWICKE HOUSE PS 1 2 100
South West Water River Lemon CLOCKTOWER CSO 4 1 94.1
South West Water Bitton Brook FIRE STATION CSO 2 1 93.5
South West Water Aller Brook KEYBERRY ROAD NO 2 1 1 100
South West Water River Lemon MARKET WALK CSO 2 0 100
South West Water Wolborough Stream COACH ROAD CSO 4 0 100
South West Water River Bovey Via Sw Sewer RIVERSIDE CSO 1 0 100
South West Water River Lemon BRUNSWICK HOUSE CSO 1 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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