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Bexhill and Battle

Polluted by sewage 919 times in 2025 lasting 6,865 hours

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Live data for Bexhill and Battle in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 7,676 hours of sewage overflows, from 85 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Bexhill and Battle in 2025

39 Sites polluted by Southern Water
919 sewage dumps
6,865 hours duration
That's 9.53 months. On average 2.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bexhill and Battle in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water River Dudwell BURWASH COMMON STW 99 1,301 94.7
Southern Water River Brede WESTFIELD WWTW 75 862 94.7
Southern Water English Channel BEXHILL AND HASTINGS WWTW 99 818 100
Southern Water Goddens Gill QUICKBOURNE LANE NORTHIAM WWTW 47 458 100
Southern Water River Brede BATTLE WWTW 49 387 100
Southern Water Freshwater River NO1 CSO STATION RD ROBERTSBRIDGE 71 304 100
Southern Water Abbey Petty Sewer ROBERTSBRIDGE WWTW 30 292 99.9
Southern Water Bewl Water TINKERS LANE PS, TICEHURST 38 255 100
Southern Water River Line CANADIA CSO 40 253 99.8
Southern Water River Brede STUBBS LANE BREDE WWTW 29 250 99
Southern Water River Rother MILL CORNER NORTHIAM WWTW 40 242 99.9
Southern Water Knelle Petty Sewer BECKLEY WWTW 22 174 99.3
Southern Water East Stream LUNSFORD CROSS WWTW 22 152 100
Southern Water River Tillingham STAPLECROSS WWTW, GATE FARM, STAPLE 20 130 100
Southern Water River Pevensey CATSFIELD WWTW 33 122 96.5
Southern Water Freshwater River EWHURST LANE PUMPING STATION 17 92 100
Southern Water Controlled Sea POLEGROVE TANK CSO 10 92 97.4
Southern Water Controlled Sea COODEN BEACH TANK CSO 6 90 98.2
Southern Water Freshwater River LAND OFF SAMPSONS LANE 37 85 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River CHESTNUT WALK WWPS 21 58 100
Southern Water Robertsbridge Petty Sewer NORTHBRIDGE ST ROBERTSBRIDGE CSO 14 52 99.6
Southern Water Nunningham Stream GARDNER STREET SEWAGE WORKS 8 50 99.9
Southern Water Controlled Sea BEXHILL DOWN TANK CSO 6 46 100
Southern Water English Channel GALLEY HILL TANKS (NEW) CSO 5 45 99.8
Southern Water River Rother HURST GREEN WWTW 6 37 99.6
Southern Water River Rother BURWASH VILLAGE WWTW 8 35 100
Southern Water Freshwater River PEVENSEY PS NO 4 CSO 4 25 99.9
Southern Water Wallers Haven TURKEY ROAD WPS, BEXHILL ON SEA 9 24 100
Southern Water Controlled Sea HARTFIELD ROAD CSO 10 21 100
Southern Water Freshwater River PEVENSEY PS NO 3 CSO 5 19 100
Southern Water Unnamed Powdermill Stream ASTEN FIELDS PUMPING STATION 7 17 97.3
Southern Water River Rother BRICKWALL SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 4 14 100
Southern Water Nunningham Stream WINDMILL HILL HERSTMONCEUX WWTW 3 14 100
Southern Water Picknill Green Stream PEARTREE LANE BEXHILL CEO 6 13 99.7
Southern Water Combe Haven YORK ROAD BEXHILL CEO 5 8 99.3
Southern Water Freshwater River ROCK LANE PUMPING STATION 4 4 100
Southern Water Combe Haven River WATERMILL LANE BEXHILL CSO 6 3 98.9
Southern Water River Limden ST MARYS LANE TICEHURST CSO 3 2 60.9
Southern Water To English Channel ROEDEAN CLOSE BEXHILL CSO 1 0 100
Southern Water Freshwater River MAPLE WALK TANK CSO 0 0 94.9
Southern Water River Line NORTH TRADE ROAD BATTLE CSO 0 0 56.1
Southern Water River Limden OLD FORGE TICEHURST CSO 0 0 99.4
Southern Water Salt Haven Estuary PEVENSEY BAY HALT (NO2) WWPS 0 0 99.8
Southern Water English Channel RICHMOND ROAD BEXHILL CSO 0 0 100
Southern Water River Brede SEDLESCOMBE BRIDGE CEO 0 0 100

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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