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River Yeo polluted by sewage 636 times in 2025 - lasting 6,858 hours

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Totals for River Yeo in 2025
11 Sites polluted by South West Water
636 sewage dumps
6,858 h duration
That's 9.53 months. On average 1.7 times a day
Places along River Yeo

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Yeo 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 Yeo HORNS CROSS SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 230 2,035 100
South West Water River Yeo ZEAL MONACHORUM STW 97 1,886 100
South West Water River Yeo BUCKLAND BREWER STW 63 1,128 100
South West Water River Yeo LITTLEHAM STW 80 1,000 100
South West Water River Yeo FORD & FAIRY CROSS STW 81 548 100
South West Water River Yeo YEOFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 31 124 99.9
South West Water River Yeo RAILWAY PSCSO/EO 21 75 100
South West Water River Yeo WEST ANSTEY STW 12 37 84.8
South West Water River Yeo BOW WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 8 11 100
South West Water River Yeo BARRIS CSO 6 9 93.9
South West Water River Yeo JEWSONS YARD CSO 7 1 100
South West Water River Yeo STOKE RIVERS STW 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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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