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Designated shellfish area 'Yealm' polluted by sewage 220 times in 2023 - lasting 1,040 hours

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Totals for Yealm in 2023
10 Sites polluted by South West Water
220 sewage dumps
1,040 h duration
That's 1.44 months. 4.2 times a week, on average
How does Yealm compare?

Yealm was the #43 most polluted shellfish area in England & Wales, by duration of sewage overflows, as reported by the water companies

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Yealm in 2023.

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 Newton Creek BRIDGEND PUMPING STATION 60 664 100
South West Water Broad Ooze, Yealm Estuary BRIXTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 56 287 94.4
South West Water River Yealm YEALMPTON WWTW 7 32 100
South West Water Silverbridge Lake WINSTON LANE CSO 32 26 100
South West Water River Yealm YEALMPTON WWTW 5 8 100
South West Water River Yealm TORBRIDGE SOUTH CSO 7 6 93.2
South West Water Newton Creek RIVER SIDE NO 1 CSO 18 5 99.1
South West Water River Yealm TORBRIDGE NORTH CSO 20 5 72
South West Water River Yealm Estuary COURTWOOD ROAD PSCSO/EO 4 1 100
South West Water River Yealm CHURCH WAY CSO 11 1 99.6

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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