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Totals for River Otter in 2025

16 Sites polluted by South West Water

719 sewage dumps
5,060 h duration

That's 7.03 months. On average 2 times a day

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Constituencies along River Otter

Places along River Otter

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Otter 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 Otter	HONITON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	223	2,424	100
South West Water	River Otter	FLUXTON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	107	808	100
South West Water	River Otter	GITTISHAM PUMPING STATION	67	621	99.5
South West Water	River Otter	FENITON WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	33	413	99.3
South West Water	River Otter	EAST BUDLEIGH PUMPING STATION	80	320	100
South West Water	River Otter	TIPTON ST JOHN PUMPING STATION	36	111	100
South West Water	River Otter	OTTERY ST MARY ATTENUATION TANK	30	99	100
South West Water	River Otter	GLEBE FARM PUMPING STATION	34	79	99.3
South West Water	River Otter	WESTON PUMPING STATION	12	63	99.7
South West Water	River Otter	WEST BANK PUMPING STATION	7	51	100
South West Water	River Otter	LANGORE PUMPING STATION	21	19	100
South West Water	River Otter	CHURCHINFORD STW	6	17	95.1
South West Water	River Otter	THE GREEN COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	15	13	97.5
South West Water	River Otter	CHAPEL LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	28	8	100
South West Water	River Otter	BATTS LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	13	4	100
South West Water	River Otter	GRANARY LANE CSO	7	3	100
South West Water	River Otter	COLATON RALEIGH COMBINED SEWER OF	0	0	100
South West Water	River Otter	BUCKERELL PUMPING STATION	0	0	98.9
South West Water	River Otter	CASTLE COPSE PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
South West Water	River Otter	WATERLEAT PARK PSCSO/EO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Otter	WILLOWDALE PSCSO/EO	0	0	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

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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