Atlantic Ocean polluted by sewage 439 times in 2024 - lasting 4,071 hours

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Totals for Atlantic Ocean in 2024
10 Sites polluted by South West Water
439 sewage dumps
4,071 h duration
That's 5.65 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Atlantic Ocean in 2024. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
South West Water Atlantic Ocean BRIDGE PS / CSO / EO 142 2,669 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean GORRAN HAVEN PSCSO/EO 76 487 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean BOSSINEY BACK LANE PUMPING STATION 39 324 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean CSO AT ATLANTIC HOTEL 43 179 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean TINTAGEL CASTLE ROAD PUMP STATION 19 118 99.8
South West Water Atlantic Ocean TOWAN HEAD PUMPING STATION 32 116 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean YELLOWSANDS PUMPING STATION 41 88 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean BOTALLACK PUMPING STATION 34 64 96.2
South West Water Atlantic Ocean BOSWEDDEN PUMPING STATION 11 20 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean ST AGNES WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 2 1 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean BOSCASTLE HARBOUR PUMPING STATION 0 0 76.4

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.

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