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River Tavy polluted by sewage 572 times in 2025 - lasting 3,738 hours

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Totals for River Tavy in 2025
9 Sites polluted by South West Water
572 sewage dumps
3,738 h duration
That's 5.19 months. On average 1.6 times a day
Places along River Tavy

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Tavy 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 Tavy BUCKLAND MONACHORUM WWTW 52 941 100
South West Water River Tavy CROWNDALE COTTAGES CSO 72 815 74.9
South West Water River Tavy TAVISTOCK COLLEGE PLAYING FIELD 80 500 94.8
South West Water River Tavy HARROWBEER CSO 83 430 100
South West Water River Tavy SIPHON TELEPHONE BOX CSO 64 292 100
South West Water River Tavy WEST BRIDGE CSO 79 271 100
South West Water River Tavy BERE FERRERS PUMPING STATION 66 268 100
South West Water River Tavy CROWNDALE WWTW 9 121 5.9
South West Water River Tavy PIXON LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 67 95 96.6
South West Water River Tavy MOUNT HOUSE SCHOOL PS 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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