Water company · South West
Recent spills
Serves Devon, Cornwall, parts of Dorset and Somerset. Major rivers: Tamar, Exe, Tavy, Otter, Plym.
South West Water operates 1,345 monitored storm overflows. 25 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 21 weeks across 2,740 events on average. The Truth Engine has 95 open flags against them right now.
1,345
Storm overflows
0
Active right now
25
Monitors offline
95
Open flags
685
Spills · last 7 days
21 weeks
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
43 min
Avg event length · 30 days
111
Spills · last 24 hours
16,995
spill events
22,680h
cumulative discharge
12 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 2.6h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 2.4h per overflow. ranked 6 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.