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Currently spilling

South West Water

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 2,024 events on average. The Truth Engine has 237 open flags against them right now.

1,345

Storm overflows

1

Active right now

20

Monitors offline

237

Open flags

506

Spills · last 7 days

38.3 years

Cumulative discharge · 30 days

3 days

Avg event length · 30 days

41

Spills · last 24 hours

Spill record· last 12 months · network-wide

8,181

spill events

+28110% vs prior 12m

517,487h

cumulative discharge

+2397707% 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 249.7h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 107.9h per overflow. ranked 9 of 10 of UK water companies by 30-day spill hours per monitored overflow.

Most-discharged-into watercourses

The 12 watercourses with the most South West Water overflows discharging into them.

Currently spilling· 1

  1. 01

    RIVER TAVY

    SBB01335 · spilling for 28.3 h

Truth Engine flags against South West Water· 25 open

Monitors offline· 20