Water company · South West
Currently spilling
Serves Devon, Cornwall, parts of Dorset and Somerset. Major rivers: Tamar, Exe, Tavy, Otter, Plym.
South West Water operates 1,345 monitored storm overflows. 2 are currently spilling. 17 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 14.2 years across 1,664 events on average. The Truth Engine has 128 open flags against them right now.
1,345
Storm overflows
2
Active right now
17
Monitors offline
128
Open flags
416
Spills · last 7 days
14.2 years
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
3 days
Avg event length · 30 days
109
Spills · last 24 hours
11,134
spill events
+27056% vs prior 12m
1,842,099h
cumulative discharge
+8212593% vs prior 12m
23 weeks
longest single event (all time)
2020-01-31
first event on record
Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, South West Water averaged 92.2h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 23.6h per overflow. ranked 10 of 10 of UK water companies by 30-day spill hours per monitored overflow.
The 12 watercourses with the most South West Water overflows discharging into them.