River Dart Data· Friends of the Dart
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River Dart open data

Friends of the Dart publishes the water-quality and sewage monitoring data we collect across the catchment. Explore the pollution map, look up any testing site, follow storm-overflow spills, or break the data down by council area.

Open the pollution mapBrowse testing sites
127
Monitored sites
2,521
Samples recorded
45
Sewage assets tracked
0
Dry-weather spills (2025)

Pollution map

An interactive map of bacterial pollution across the catchment — colour-coded river stretches, parish and district choropleths, and every monitored site.

Water quality

Every testing site with its sample history, E. coli trend over time and EA bathing-water reference bands.

Sewage spills

Storm-overflow spill records from Environment Agency EDM returns, including spills in dry weather where they shouldn't happen.

EA monitoring

The Environment Agency's own routine water-quality monitoring — orthophosphate, ammonia, nitrate, dissolved oxygen and pH by sampling point, the chemistry behind the catchment's WFD failures.

Planned improvements

What the water company is legally required to do, and by when — the Environment Agency's WINEP actions for the catchment, with the previous cycle's overdue deadlines.

By council area

Water-quality sites, sewage assets, spills and treatment-works capacity broken down by district and parish.

Open water-quality and sewage data for the River Dart catchment, published by Friends of the Dart. Capacity and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) figures are indicative estimates.

Citizen-science and water-company sampling data · Environment Agency EDM returns. Not a substitute for official advice.