Top of the Poops | Shellfish Area

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Totals for Teign Estuary in 2024

54 Sites polluted by South West Water

1,954 sewage dumps

18,313 hours 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

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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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Teign Estuary Polluted by sewage 1,954 times in 2024 - lasting 18,313 hours - That's 2.12 years!

Teign Estuary