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Seaton (Cornwall)

Polluted by sewage 232 times in 2025 - lasting 2,835 hours

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Totals for Seaton (Cornwall) in 2025

5 Sites polluted by South West Water
232 sewage dumps
2,835 hours duration
That's 3.94 months. 4.5 times a week, on average

How does Seaton (Cornwall) compare?

Seaton (Cornwall) was the #9 most polluted bathing area in England & Wales, by duration of sewage overflows, as reported by the water companies

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Seaton (Cornwall) in 2025.

Accuracy Warning

We use data from the water companies, but we are seeing many anomalies that make us believe that bathing location information is quite poor. The situation is likely far worse than reported here.

If the locations of the sewage outlets look a bit unusual, it is likely that the reporting of the data from the water company is in error. We rely on their data in order to draw these maps.

Other CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s may also be located nearby, however the water companies claim that these do not affect the water quality here.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
South West Water River Seaton MENHENIOT WWTW 131 1,574 100
South West Water English Channel SEATON PUMPING STATION 67 1,071 100
South West Water River Seaton FACTORY HOUSES PUMPING STATION 12 107 100
South West Water River Seaton CHURCH SQUARE CSO 12 56 100
South West Water River Seaton SCAWNS HILL CSO 10 24 100

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.