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Dawlish Water polluted by sewage 96 times in 2025 - lasting 52 hours

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Totals for Dawlish Water in 2025
4 Sites polluted by South West Water
96 sewage dumps
52 h duration
That's 2.17 days. 1.8 times a week, on average
Constituencies along Dawlish Water
Places along Dawlish Water

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
South West Water Dawlish Water DAWLISH SSO (BROOK STREET) 41 27 100
South West Water Dawlish Water BARTON HILL/BRUNSWICK CSO 32 18 100
South West Water Dawlish Water VIADUCT HIGH LEVEL STORM TANK CSO 8 3 100
South West Water Dawlish Water WEST CLIFF COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 15 2 100
South West Water Dawlish Water BROOK HOUSE SSO 0 0 98.6

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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