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Live data for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 4,042 hours of sewage overflows, from 128 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport in 2025

58 Sites polluted by South West Water

1,883 sewage dumps

7,059 hours duration

That's 9.8 months. On average 5.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
South West Water	Weston Mill Lake	CAMELS HEAD WWTW	126	2,188	99.85
South West Water	Plymouth Sound/Plym Estuary	PLYMOUTH CENTRAL STW	119	925	100
South West Water	Leigham Mill Stream	EFFORD MARSH CSO	61	718	100
South West Water	River Tamar	DOCKYARD NO.3 PUMPING STATION	43	337	100
South West Water	Plymouth Sound	EASTERN KINGS PUMPING STATION	47	283	99.6
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	LAIRA PARK CSO	87	267	100
South West Water	Plymouth Sound Via Sws	CAMBRIDGE LANE COMBINED SEWER OF	76	252	99.5
South West Water	Sutton Harbour Via Sws	59 BRETONSIDE CSO	51	217	89.8
South West Water	River Tamar	PS-DY2, NORTH YARD, DEVONPORT	28	201	100
South West Water	Plymouth Sound	POTTERY QUAY PUMPING STATION	40	189	100
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	ARNOLDS POINT PUMPING STATION	17	171	100
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	LIPSON VALE 1 CSO	95	158	100
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	PIKE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	87	153	99.4
South West Water	River Tamar	MUTTON COVE PUMPING STATION	41	84	100
South West Water	Plymouth Sound	OCEAN COURT PUMPING STATION	35	79	100
South West Water	Pennycomequick Stream Via Sws	BARN PARK ROAD CSO	69	75	100
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	LIPSON VALE 2 CSO	52	74	100
South West Water	Stonehouse Creek Via Sws	CENTRAL PARK CSO	28	71	98.8
South West Water	Plymouth Sound	MILLBAY TANKS	12	65	100
South West Water	Plymouth Sound	20 COMMERCIAL ROAD	24	57	100
South West Water	Stonehouse Creek Via Sws	PARADISE ROAD (GRAVEYARD) CSO	39	56	98.9
South West Water	Stonehouse Creek	SEYMOUR PLACE CSO	32	45	100
South West Water	Stonehouse Creek Via Sws	WILTON ROAD CSO	39	34	100
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	178 BEAUMONT ROAD CSO	51	31	99.3
South West Water	River Plym	TREFIUS PARK COMBINED SEWER OVERFLO	42	31	86.6
South West Water	Stonehouse Creek	139 OUTLAND ROAD CSO	28	24	94.3
South West Water	River Tamar	EDINBURGH STREET (PS5) PS	18	23	100
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	JEPHSON ROAD CSO	24	23	99.4
South West Water	Plymouth Sound	BARBICAN (SUTTON HARBOUR) TANKS	168	22	100
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	FARRINGDON ROAD CSO	19	22	100
South West Water	River Tamar	SALTASH ROAD SPS PLYMOUTH	23	21	100
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	1 EDNA TERRACE CSO	14	17	100
South West Water	Weston Mill Lake	CAMELS HEAD WWTW	8	17	95.6
South West Water	Stonehouse Creek Via Sws	PEVERELL PARK ROAD CSO	31	15	96.2
South West Water	Leigham Mill Stream	HARLECH CLOSE CSO	19	14	100
South West Water	Stonehouse Creek Via Sws	MILL BRIDGE CSO	12	11	100
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	78 BEAUMONT ROAD CSO	30	9	99.1
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	SEYMOUR AVENUE/BEAUMONT RD CSO	28	9	99.1
South West Water	River Tamar	CORNWALL BEACH (PS3)	2	7	100
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	SEYMOUR AVENUE/SALISBURY RD CSO	24	5	100
South West Water	Plymouth Sound	WEST HOE TUNNEL SHAFT 5B.2	4	4	100
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	CAVENDISH ROAD CSO	13	4	100
South West Water	River Plym	R/O GARAGES LANHYDROCK ROAD CSO	12	4	96.6
South West Water	River Plym	OPP 44 CARMARTHEN ROAD CSO	24	4	96.7
South West Water	River Plym Estuary	JETTY PUMPING STATION	2	3	99.7
South West Water	Stonehouse Creek Via Sws	VICTORIA PARK CSO	3	3	100
South West Water	Plymouth Sound Via Sws	PENNYCOMEQUICK ROUNDABOUT CSO	6	3	100
South West Water	Stonehouse Creek Via Sws	DALE ROAD CSO	6	3	93.4
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	45 CRAVEN AVENUE CSO	4	1	100
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	28 FINCH CLOSE CSO	2	1	96.5
South West Water	River Plym Via Sws	LAIRA AVENUE CSO	1	1	86.4
South West Water	Cattewater	20 COMMERCIAL ROAD	4	1	100
South West Water	River Plym	HEATHFIELD ROAD CSO	3	0	100
South West Water	Millbay Dock Via Sws-Estuarine	ETON PLACE CSO	3	0	94.8
South West Water	River Plym	OLD LAIRA ROAD JUNCTION CSO	3	0	100
South West Water	Hamoaze	MORICE YARD CSO	1	0	100
South West Water	Hamoaze	MOON COVE CSO	1	0	100
South West Water	Stone House Creek Via Sws	PENNYCOMEQUICK HILL CSO	2	0	95.2
South West Water	Pennycomequick Stream Via Sws	2 BICKHAM PARK ROAD CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	Stonehouse Creek	ALLOTMENT CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Tamar	DOCKYARD NO.1	0	0	87.1
South West Water	River Plym	EMBANKMENT ROAD PUMPING STATION	0	0	99.9
South West Water	River Plym	GWYN ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	98.7
South West Water	River Plym	MARSH MILLS PUMPING STATION	0	0	99.1
South West Water	Millbay Docks Via Sws	TRACEY COURT CSO	0	0	93.9
South West Water	Plymouth Sound	WEST HOE PUMPING STATION	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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