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Totals for Teign Estuary in 2025

54 Sites polluted by South West Water

1,519 sewage dumps

12,817 hours duration

That's 1.48 years. On average 4.2 times a day

How does Teign Estuary compare?

Teign Estuary was the #2 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 Teign 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 Bovey	HEATHFIELD STW	106	2,112	99.4
South West Water	River Teign	CHUDLEIGH WWTW	90	1,527	100
South West Water	Liverton Brook	SUMMERHILL PUMPING STATION	87	1,364	100
South West Water	Wray Brook	LUSTLEIGH WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORK	72	1,124	99.5
South West Water	River Lemon	EAST OGWELL WWTW	68	1,098	100
South West Water	English Channel	BUCKLAND WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	75	953	100
South West Water	Aller Brook	COMPTON CASTLE CSO	69	658	79
South West Water	River Teign	CHUDLEIGH WWTW	90	378	99.9
South West Water	Aller Brook	THE OLD ORCHARD CSO	82	360	100
South West Water	River Teign	CHUDLEIGH KNIGHTON WWTW	30	352	100
South West Water	Arch Brook	STOKEINTEIGNHEAD PUMPING STATION	19	312	100
South West Water	River Teign	THE BUTTS PS	36	310	100
South West Water	River Teign	TEIGN VILLAGE WWTW	32	305	98.3
South West Water	River Teign Via S/W Sewer	FORDE ROAD PSCSO/EO	31	291	100
South West Water	River Teign	CHUDLEIGH KNIGHTON WWTW	59	229	100
South West Water	River Bovey	AYLIFFE'S BRIDGE CSO	43	189	100
South West Water	Aller Brook	LOVE LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	63	169	99.8
South West Water	Sewer To Aller Brook	KEYBERRY RD NO.5 CSO	24	127	98.1
South West Water	Sws To Aller Brook	QUEENSWAY PUMPING STATION	20	124	100
South West Water	Surface Water Sewer	O/S 4 KEYBERRY ROAD CSO	23	107	91.2
South West Water	Aller Brook	ST MARYCHURCH ROAD CSO	32	103	100
South West Water	O Teign Estuary	STOCKMEADOW HOUSE CSO	47	79	100
South West Water	Teign Estuary	KING GEORGE'S FIELD PS	24	70	100
South West Water	River Lemon	OPP 65 HIGHWEEK ROAD CSO	8	58	98.9
South West Water	Teign Estuary	BISHOPSTEIGNTON PS	7	44	100
South West Water	Surface Water Sewer	HORNS CLOSE CSO	24	44	40
South West Water	River Lemon	BARTON DRIVE CSO	19	43	100
South West Water	River Teign	BUNKERS BRIDGE CSO	27	42	97.6
South West Water	S/W Sewer To Aller Brook	FORDE PARK/TORQUAY ROAD CSO	36	41	95.9
South West Water	River Teign	ELM ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	15	34	100
South West Water	Aller Brook	TORQUAY ROAD CSO	32	30	97.5
South West Water	Teign Estuary	BITTON PARK ROAD CSO	17	25	100
South West Water	Teign Estuary	BITTON PARK ROAD JCT 2ND AVENUE CSO	8	22	84.7
South West Water	River Bovey	BOVEY BRIDGE CSO	5	19	99.3
South West Water	Teign Estuary	RINGMORE ROAD CSO	14	11	93.7
South West Water	River Teign	HACKNEY PS	6	8	100
South West Water	Aller Brook	SANDRINGHAM PARK CSO	7	5	100
South West Water	Teign Estuary	BITTON PARK RUGBY CLUB CSO	4	4	83.9
South West Water	River Lemon Via Sws	QUEEN STREET CSO	1	4	100
South West Water	Aller Brook	KEYBERRY ROAD NO.18 CSO	6	4	91.2
South West Water	Surface Water Sewer	ALLER BRAKE ROAD CSO	10	3	93.5
South West Water	Bitton Brook	FIRE STATION CSO	4	2	100
South West Water	River Bovey Via Sws	A382 BYPASS VERGE CSO	4	1	100
South West Water	River Lemon	CLOCKTOWER CSO	8	1	100
South West Water	Ringmore Stream	ORCHARD CLOSE CSO	12	1	100
South West Water	River Teign Via Sws Estuarine	MILFORD PARK PUMPING STATION	1	1	99.1
South West Water	Aller Brook	COMPTON AND MARLDON WWTW	1	1	100
South West Water	Wolborough Stream	COACH ROAD CSO	4	0	96.7
South West Water	Teign Estuary	BROADMEADOW PS	3	0	99.8
South West Water	River Lemon	OLD TOTNES ROAD CSO	4	0	99.9
South West Water	River Lemon	MARKET WALK CSO	3	0	100
South West Water	River Lemon	NO 15 LEMON ROAD CSO	3	0	100
South West Water	Surface Water Sewer	PARK HILL CSO	2	0	100
South West Water	Aller Brook	LOWICKE HOUSE PS	2	0	99.5

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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