River Tamar polluted by sewage 2,001 times in 2024 - lasting 21,237 hours

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Totals for River Tamar in 2024
28 Sites polluted by South West Water
2,001 sewage dumps
21,237 h duration
That's 2.46 years! On average 5.5 times a day

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Tamar 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 River Tamar METHERELL WWTW 217 4,637 100
South West Water River Tamar GUNNISLAKE WWTW 244 3,284 100
South West Water River Tamar MILTON ABBOT WWTW 125 2,248 99.3
South West Water River Tamar LATCHLEY STW 119 1,654 100
South West Water River Tamar ST LEONARDS WWTW 115 1,618 97.4
South West Water River Tamar ERNESETTLE SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 134 1,552 74.75
South West Water River Tamar CHILSWORTHY WWTW 174 1,156 98
South West Water River Tamar ST DOMINICK PUMPING STATION 80 1,150 100
South West Water River Tamar PS-DY2, NORTH YARD, DEVONPORT 103 1,020 100
South West Water River Tamar HAREWOOD ROAD CSO 152 987 98.6
South West Water River Tamar PLAYING FIELDS PUMPING STATION 114 666 100
South West Water River Tamar BRIDGERULE WWTW 40 468 99.9
South West Water River Tamar DOCKYARD NO.3 PUMPING STATION 52 338 100
South West Water River Tamar ST GILES ON THE HEATH 17 70 100
South West Water River Tamar CARGREEN PSCSO/EO 44 67 99.4
South West Water River Tamar ROWING CLUB NO2 CSO 38 67 100
South West Water River Tamar MUTTON COVE PUMPING STATION 39 63 100
South West Water River Tamar LOWER KELLY PSCSO/EO 26 54 100
South West Water River Tamar THANCKES PARK PUMPING STATION 52 51 100
South West Water River Tamar LAWHITTON WWTW CSO 14 28 99.9
South West Water River Tamar SALTASH ROAD SPS PLYMOUTH 34 20 100
South West Water River Tamar KINTERBURY CREEK RIVERSIDE PS 10 9 99.4
South West Water River Tamar EDINBURGH STREET (PS5) PS 9 5 100
South West Water River Tamar KINGSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION 1 4 100
South West Water River Tamar BRUNEL BRIDGE CSO 21 3 100
South West Water River Tamar ROWING CLUB NO1 CSO 16 2 100
South West Water River Tamar THE QUAY COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 10 1 99.4
South West Water River Tamar DOCKYARD NO.1 1 0 100
South West Water River Tamar CORNWALL BEACH (PS3) 0 0 100
South West Water River Tamar GUNNISLAKE NO.1 CSO 0 0 98.8
South West Water River Tamar BRIDGERULE PSCSO/EO 0 0 100
South West Water River Tamar VICARGE GARDENS CSO MILTON ABBOT 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. 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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