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Totals for River Exe Via Sws in 2025

15 Sites polluted by South West Water

210 sewage dumps
289 h duration

That's 1.72 weeks. 4 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	DUNSFORD ROAD CSO	47	111	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	HOLLOWAY STREET CSO	28	47	99.9
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	TEMPLE ROAD CSO	29	39	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	23 KING EDWARD STREET CSO	6	22	98.4
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	COLLETON GROVE CSO	16	16	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	OKEHAMPTON ROAD CSO	11	12	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	MAGDALEN ROAD CSO	13	10	99.5
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	LARKBEARE HOUSE CSO	13	9	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	CHURCH ROAD JCT OF CECIL ROAD CSO	9	5	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	19 HEAVITREE ROAD CSO	8	4	94.5
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	BUDDLE LANE CSO	20	4	93.1
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	CHUTE STREET CSO	4	2	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	BULLEN STREET COMBINED SEWER OF	1	1	99.5
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	EXETER BOWLING CLUB CSO	4	0	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	14 CLIFTON ROAD CSO	1	0	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	28 CLIFTON ROAD CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	34 CLIFTON ROAD CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	BULLER ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	98.8
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	CLIFTON ROAD/JCT ALBERT ROAD CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	PARIS STREET CSO	0	0	100
South West Water	River Exe Via Sws	TOPSHAM ROAD JCT ROBERS ROAD CSO	0	0	0

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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