River Taw polluted by sewage 315 times in 2023 - lasting 2,712 hours

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Totals for River Taw in 2023
4 Sites polluted by South West Water
315 sewage dumps
2,712 h duration
That's 3.77 months. 6.1 times a week, on average
Constituencies along River Taw

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Taw 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 Taw BELSTONE AND SOUTH TAWTON WWTW 76 1,107 100
South West Water River Taw KINGS NYMPTON (SOUTH) WWTW SSO 83 665 100
South West Water River Taw NORTH TAWTON WWTW 114 502 98.45
South West Water River Taw SOUTH ZEAL PUMPING STATION 42 437 100
South West Water River Taw STICKLEPATH BRIDGE CSO 0 0 100
South West Water River Taw BURRINGTON CSO 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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