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River Devon polluted by sewage 79 times in 2025 - lasting 643 hours

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Totals for River Devon in 2025
7 Sites polluted by Severn Trent Water
79 sewage dumps
643 h duration
That's 3.83 weeks. 1.5 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Devon in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Severn Trent Water River Devon FARNDON STW 28 338 100
Severn Trent Water River Devon BOTTESFORD STW 16 141 99.8
Severn Trent Water River Devon WOOLSTHORPE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 15 114 95.3
Severn Trent Water River Devon EATON PUMPING STATION 3 25 98.1
Severn Trent Water River Devon CROXTON KERRIAL SEWAGE TRTMNT WORKS 6 14 96.8
Severn Trent Water River Devon NEWARK - BOUNDARY ROAD CSO 10 4 100
Severn Trent Water River Devon ALVERTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 1 4 99

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.

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