Atlantic Ocean polluted by sewage 460 times in 2023 - lasting 3,681 hours

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Totals for Atlantic Ocean in 2023
12 Sites polluted by South West Water
460 sewage dumps
3,681 h duration
That's 5.11 months. On average 1.3 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Atlantic Ocean in 2023. 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 120 2,180 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean BOSSINEY BACK LANE PUMPING STATION 56 451 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean GORRAN HAVEN PSCSO/EO 71 436 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean CSO AT ATLANTIC HOTEL 53 265 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean TINTAGEL CASTLE ROAD PUMP STATION 27 112 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean TOWAN HEAD PUMPING STATION 30 74 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean YELLOWSANDS PUMPING STATION 32 60 93.1
South West Water Atlantic Ocean BOTALLACK PUMPING STATION 32 53 99.4
South West Water Atlantic Ocean NEW GRIMSBY PUMPING STATION 14 20 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean BOSWEDDEN PUMPING STATION 7 13 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean ST AGNES WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 14 12 100
South West Water Atlantic Ocean BOSCASTLE HARBOUR PUMPING STATION 4 0 78.5

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. 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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