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Worst beaches for sewage in Torbay

8 bathing waters ranked by the storm-overflow spills the Environment Agency links to them in 2025. The other 7 in Torbay have no comparable 2025 record, which is not the same as a clean one.

Spills in 2025

  1. 1 Meadfoot 109 from 2 overflows +35% since 2022
  2. 2 St Mary's Bay (Devon) 64 from 1 overflow +8% since 2024
  3. 3 Torre Abbey 61 from 4 overflows +110% since 2022
  4. 4 Beacon Cove 51 from 3 overflows +31% since 2022
  5. 5 Goodrington 34 from 2 overflows +325% since 2022
  6. 6 Paignton Preston Sands 31 from 2 overflows +107% since 2022
  7. 7 Paignton Paignton Sands 23 from 4 overflows -56% since 2023
  8. 8 Breakwater Beach (Shoalstone) 0 from 1 overflow

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 Torbay or every spill happening now.