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. 1 is currently spilling. 20 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 38.3 years across 2,020 events on average. The Truth Engine has 238 open flags against them right now.
1,345
Storm overflows
1
Active right now
20
Monitors offline
238
Open flags
505
Spills · last 7 days
38.3 years
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
3 days
Avg event length · 30 days
39
Spills · last 24 hours
8,179
spill events
+28103% vs prior 12m
516,973h
cumulative discharge
+2395325% vs prior 12m
16 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 249.4h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 108.0h per overflow. ranked 9 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.