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Totals for River Tamar in 2023

29 Sites polluted by South West Water

1,999 sewage dumps
20,372 h duration

That's 2.36 years! On average 5.5 times a day

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Constituencies along River Tamar

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Tamar 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	River Tamar	METHERELL WWTW	181	3,508	93.25
South West Water	River Tamar	GUNNISLAKE WWTW	203	2,626	99.6
South West Water	River Tamar	MILTON ABBOT WWTW	138	2,292	100
South West Water	River Tamar	ERNESETTLE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	196	2,232	100
South West Water	River Tamar	LATCHLEY STW	127	2,059	82.8
South West Water	River Tamar	ST LEONARDS WWTW	114	1,647	100
South West Water	River Tamar	ST DOMINICK PUMPING STATION	87	1,274	100
South West Water	River Tamar	HAREWOOD ROAD CSO	189	1,137	98.3
South West Water	River Tamar	PS-DY2, NORTH YARD, DEVONPORT	96	985	100
South West Water	River Tamar	CHILSWORTHY WWTW	102	605	100
South West Water	River Tamar	PLAYING FIELDS PUMPING STATION	104	581	100
South West Water	River Tamar	BRIDGERULE WWTW	47	549	100
South West Water	River Tamar	DOCKYARD NO.3 PUMPING STATION	42	290	100
South West Water	River Tamar	ST GILES ON THE HEATH	26	143	100
South West Water	River Tamar	MUTTON COVE PUMPING STATION	53	100	100
South West Water	River Tamar	LAWHITTON WWTW CSO	25	74	78.6
South West Water	River Tamar	THANCKES PARK PUMPING STATION	59	66	100
South West Water	River Tamar	ROWING CLUB NO2 CSO	39	55	100
South West Water	River Tamar	CARGREEN PSCSO/EO	44	53	78.4
South West Water	River Tamar	LOWER KELLY PSCSO/EO	15	26	100
South West Water	River Tamar	KINTERBURY CREEK RIVERSIDE PS	11	12	100
South West Water	River Tamar	SALTASH ROAD SPS PLYMOUTH	20	11	100
South West Water	River Tamar	THE QUAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	23	10	100
South West Water	River Tamar	EDINBURGH STREET (PS5) PS	20	9	100
South West Water	River Tamar	CORNWALL BEACH (PS3)	3	8	100
South West Water	River Tamar	BRUNEL BRIDGE CSO	9	3	100
South West Water	River Tamar	ROWING CLUB NO1 CSO	24	3	100
South West Water	River Tamar	BRIDGERULE PSCSO/EO	1	1	90
South West Water	River Tamar	VICARGE GARDENS CSO MILTON ABBOT	1	0	100
South West Water	River Tamar	DOCKYARD NO.1	0	0	100
South West Water	River Tamar	KINGSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION	0	0	53
South West Water	River Tamar	GUNNISLAKE NO.1 CSO	0	0	100

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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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River Tamar polluted by sewage 1,999 times in 2023 - lasting 20,372 hours

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