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Lyme Bay polluted by sewage 202 times in 2025 - lasting 1,321 hours

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Totals for Lyme Bay in 2025
8 Sites polluted by South West Water
202 sewage dumps
1,321 h duration
That's 1.83 months. 3.9 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
South West Water Lyme Bay EXMOUTH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 55 788 87.5
South West Water Lyme Bay SANDY LANE PUMPING STATION 46 396 100
South West Water Lyme Bay SANDY LANE PUMPING STATION 49 73 100
South West Water Lyme Bay STATION CAR PARK CSO 15 32 100
South West Water Lyme Bay DAWLISH BREAKWATER SSO 31 29 100
South West Water Lyme Bay ELM GROVE CSO 4 0 100
South West Water Lyme Bay SEA LAWNS OUTFALL CSO, DAWLISH 1 0 100
South West Water Lyme Bay SEA LAWNS PUMPING STATION 1 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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