Worst beaches for sewage in East Devon
6 bathing waters ranked by the storm-overflow spills the Environment Agency links to them in 2025. The other 2 in East Devon have no comparable 2025 record, which is not the same as a clean one.
Spills in 2025
- 1 Exmouth 168 from 4 overflows +7% since 2021
- 2 Budleigh Salterton 113 from 8 overflows +102% since 2022
- 3 Sidmouth Beach 101 from 3 overflows +71% since 2022
- 4 Seaton (Devon) 96 from 3 overflows +57% since 2022
- 5 Beer 58 from 2 overflows +45% since 2022
- 6 Sandy Bay 55 from 1 overflow +12% since 2021
How this is counted
Each figure counts spills from the storm overflows the Environment Agency links to that bathing water in its annual Event Duration Monitoring return, so it follows the sewer network rather than a map radius. Spills only: the return's duration column is not reliable enough to publish.
See the cleanest beaches in East Devon or every spill happening now.