River Axe polluted by sewage 578 times in 2025 - lasting 3,789 hours

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Totals for River Axe in 2025
11 Sites polluted by South West Water
578 sewage dumps
3,789 h duration
That's 5.26 months. On average 1.6 times a day

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
South West Water River Axe KILMINGTON WWTW 110 995 99.8
South West Water River Axe COLYTON & COLYFORD WWTW 75 976 100
South West Water River Axe RAILWAY STATION COMBINED SEWER OF 68 587 99.8
South West Water River Axe HORSLEARS PUMPING STATION 64 576 100
South West Water River Axe MOSTERTON PUMPING STATION 72 311 100
South West Water River Axe AXMOUTH PSCSO/EO 36 105 100
South West Water River Axe CHARD ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 29 86 98.9
South West Water River Axe SHAND PARK CSO 18 49 100
South West Water River Axe WINSHAM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 94 47 99.2
South West Water River Axe CHAPEL STREET CSO 7 28 100
South West Water River Axe WHITFORD ROAD COMBINED SEWER O/F 5 22 100

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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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