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Unknown polluted by sewage 3,965 times in 2025 - lasting 27,011 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Unknown in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
South West Water Unknown CHACEWATER STW 170 3,552 98
South West Water Unknown PRAZE AN BEEBLE STW 147 3,152 100
South West Water Unknown LUTTON STW 224 2,894 99.95
South West Water Unknown ST AUSTELL NORTH STW 86 1,557 99.5
South West Water Unknown KINGSCOTT STW 84 1,260 98.1
South West Water Unknown BRATTON FLEMING STW 61 1,191 100
South West Water Unknown THE HAM PS TANK & CSO - SIDMOUTH 101 981 99.67
South West Water Unknown BERE ALSTON STW 82 978 100
South West Water Unknown CHITTLEHAMHOLT STW 72 889 99.7
South West Water Unknown ASHWATER STW 104 855 100
South West Water Unknown HALBERTON STW 64 823 99.7
South West Water Unknown YARCOMBE STW 87 821 100
South West Water Unknown STOKE CLIMSLAND STW 105 802 100
South West Water Unknown UGBOROUGH STW 92 798 99.05
South West Water Unknown MORELEIGH STW 92 764 100
South West Water Unknown HARROWBARROW WWTW 68 628 98.7
South West Water Unknown WWTW AT MORCHARD BISHOP 124 593 97.6
South West Water Unknown PERRANUTHNOE PUMPING STATION 50 565 100
South West Water Unknown CHERITON BISHOP STW 41 520 100
South West Water Unknown RILLA MILL WWTW 38 463 98.2
South West Water Unknown LEE MILL STW 116 448 99.9
South West Water Unknown WILMINGTON STW 34 419 100
South West Water Unknown EXBOURNE STW 84 319 88.9
South West Water Unknown WOOLFARDISWORTHY STW 23 301 93.1
South West Water Unknown TREKNOW STW 17 296 100
South West Water Unknown MUSBURY & WHITFORD STW 1,464 281 100
South West Water Unknown CLEARBROOK STW 26 171 98.8
South West Water Unknown ST KEVERNE STW 22 143 100
South West Water Unknown PARKHAM STW 43 134 100
South West Water Unknown WEEK ST MARY STW 40 121 100
South West Water Unknown PAR SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 11 55 99.9
South West Water Unknown THORVERTON WWTW 14 54 100
South West Water Unknown BISHOPS NYMPTON STW 53 41 100
South West Water Unknown BLACKWATER STW 41 38 100
South West Water Unknown ST GENNYS STW 19 34 99.7
South West Water Unknown ST BREWARD STW 41 29 100
South West Water Unknown SAMPFORD COURTNEY STW 15 15 100
South West Water Unknown PARRACOMBE STW 5 6 100
South West Water Unknown ILSHAM ROAD CSO 5 2 100
South West Water Unknown NEWTON ST CYRES STW 0 0 100
South West Water Unknown VICTORIA QUAY PSCSO/EO 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.

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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