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River Teign polluted by sewage 820 times in 2025 - lasting 8,739 hours

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Totals for River Teign in 2025
14 Sites polluted by South West Water
820 sewage dumps
8,739 h duration
That's 12.14 months. On average 2.2 times a day
Constituencies along River Teign

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Teign 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 Teign DUNSFORD WWTW 110 2,471 100
South West Water River Teign CHUDLEIGH WWTW 180 1,906 99.95
South West Water River Teign GREENACRES CSO 158 1,651 96.2
South West Water River Teign CHRISTOW WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 61 1,054 100
South West Water River Teign CHUDLEIGH KNIGHTON WWTW 89 582 100
South West Water River Teign CHAGFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 40 336 100
South West Water River Teign THE BUTTS PS 36 310 100
South West Water River Teign TEIGN VILLAGE WWTW 32 305 98.3
South West Water River Teign BUNKERS BRIDGE CSO 27 42 97.6
South West Water River Teign ELM ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 15 34 100
South West Water River Teign CHAGFORD FIRE 1 CSO 43 29 100
South West Water River Teign HACKNEY PS 6 8 100
South West Water River Teign CHAGFORD FIRE 2 CSO 11 3 100
South West Water River Teign MELDON ROAD CSO 12 3 96.1
South West Water River Teign APPLE TREE HOUSE BROOMHILL CSO 0 0 96.6
South West Water River Teign FIELD NEAR WAR MEMORIAL CSO 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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