Water quality

Clean water means more fish. We care about the water we fish, so here's where sewage is going into it near you, straight from the water companies' monitors.

Discharging now
Stopped in the last 48 hours
Bathing water with a pollution warning
Bathing water

Near Town Jetty

Discharging now

No storm overflows within 10 km of Town Jetty are reporting a discharge right now.

Stopped in the last 48 hours

Sewage can hang around in the water for a day or two after an overflow stops, longer in a sheltered estuary.

Into Dart Estuary (Tidal)741 m away

Across England and Scotland now

50 storm overflows are discharging right now.

Scottish Water37 now · 620 in the last 48 h
United Utilities6 now · 487 in the last 48 h
Southern Water2 now · 2 in the last 48 h
Yorkshire Water1 now · 99 in the last 48 h
Severn Trent Water1 now · 85 in the last 48 h
Northumbrian Water1 now · 80 in the last 48 h
South West Water1 now · 71 in the last 48 h
Anglian Water1 now · 37 in the last 48 h
Wessex Water0 now · 48 in the last 48 h
Thames Water0 now · 3 in the last 48 h

Why it matters to anglers

Sewage feeds algae that use up the oxygen fish need to breathe. Low oxygen drives fish away and can kill them.
Polluted estuaries are where many sea fish grow up. Bass, flounder and mullet use them as nurseries, and fewer young fish now means fewer to catch later.
Shellfish beds close, and bait dug from polluted mud can carry bacteria. Wash your hands before you eat, and cover cuts.
Water quality is usually worst for a day or two after heavy rain, when overflows are most likely to run.

Get alerts and report pollution

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Where this comes from

Storm overflow data comes from the water companies' monitors (in England, through the National Storm Overflow Hub) and is usually within an hour. A monitor can show a discharge that didn't happen, or miss one, and some are offline. Overflows cover England and Scotland; bathing waters cover England only for now.

Storm overflow data © Anglian Water, Northumbrian Water, Severn Trent Water, South West Water, Southern Water, Thames Water, United Utilities, Wessex Water, Yorkshire Water, licensed under CC BY 4.0; © Scottish Water, under an open licence. Bathing water data © Environment Agency, under the Open Government Licence. Shown beside our tide scores, never part of them.