Bexhill and Battle was polluted by sewage 2,063 times in 2023
lasting 21,557 hours - that's 2.5 years!

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Totals for Bexhill and Battle in 2023
43 Sites polluted by Southern Water
2,063 sewage dumps
21,557 h duration
That's 2.5 years! On average 5.7 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bexhill and Battle in 2023. 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 0 of the total 49 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water River Dudwell BURWASH COMMON STW 126 2,026 99.7
Southern Water English Channel BEXHILL AND HASTINGS WWTW 164 2,020 100
Southern Water Goddens Gill QUICKBOURNE LANE NORTHIAM WWTW 109 1,916 100
Southern Water River Brede BATTLE WWTW 119 1,823 99.9
Southern Water Abbey Petty Sewer ROBERTSBRIDGE WWTW 71 1,348 99
Southern Water East Stream LUNSFORD CROSS WWTW 82 1,135 100
Southern Water Nunningham Stream GARDNER STREET SEWAGE WORKS 59 774 99.6
Southern Water Freshwater River LAND OFF SAMPSONS LANE 85 683 99.7
Southern Water River Limden ST MARYS LANE TICEHURST CSO 41 644 92.8
Southern Water River Tillingham STAPLECROSS WWTW, GATE FARM, STAPLE 46 626 100
Southern Water Bewl Water TINKERS LANE PS, TICEHURST 57 619 100
Southern Water River Line CANADIA CSO 75 589 100
Southern Water River Rother MILL CORNER NORTHIAM WWTW 74 580 100
Southern Water River Rother PEASMARSH WPS 63 575 99.9
Southern Water Controlled Sea POLEGROVE TANK CSO 45 567 100
Southern Water Freshwater River NO1 CSO STATION RD ROBERTSBRIDGE 96 528 98
Southern Water Freshwater River TILSMORE P.S., HEATHFIELD 58 510 99.7
Southern Water Freshwater River RYE ROAD 34 422 99.7
Southern Water River Pevensey CATSFIELD WWTW 72 419 98.8
Southern Water English Channel GALLEY HILL TANKS (NEW) CSO 27 328 99.7
Southern Water Knelle Petty Sewer BECKLEY WWTW 35 327 100
Southern Water Combe Haven River WATERMILL LANE BEXHILL CSO 23 313 95.3
Southern Water Controlled Sea BEXHILL DOWN TANK CSO 27 281 100
Southern Water Freshwater River CHESTNUT WALK WWPS 59 259 99.6
Southern Water Nunningham Stream WINDMILL HILL HERSTMONCEUX WWTW 21 249 100
Southern Water Freshwater River EWHURST LANE PUMPING STATION 35 228 99.7
Southern Water River Rother HURST GREEN WWTW 27 220 100
Southern Water Wallers Haven TURKEY ROAD WPS, BEXHILL ON SEA 31 175 100
Southern Water Picknill Green Stream PEARTREE LANE BEXHILL CEO 37 170 94.5
Southern Water Warbleton Stream PUNNETTS TOWN WPS 35 159 99.7
Southern Water Controlled Sea HARTFIELD ROAD CSO 46 149 99.5
Southern Water Freshwater River PEVENSEY PS NO 3 CSO 20 135 99.7
Southern Water River Rother BURWASH VILLAGE WWTW 19 117 99.4
Southern Water River Rother BROAD OAK PUMPING STATION 32 116 99.7
Southern Water Controlled Sea COODEN BEACH TANK CSO 12 109 100
Southern Water Robertsbridge Petty Sewer NORTHBRIDGE ST ROBERTSBRIDGE CSO 16 76 99.1
Southern Water Combe Haven YORK ROAD BEXHILL CEO 12 71 99.9
Southern Water Clippingham Stream RUSHLAKE GREEN WWTW 12 65 99.1
Southern Water Freshwater River PEVENSEY PS NO 4 CSO 15 59 99.7
Southern Water Unnamed Powdermill Stream ASTEN FIELDS PUMPING STATION 25 56 99.9
Southern Water River Rother BRICKWALL SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 14 43 99.8
Southern Water Freshwater River THREE CUPS SEWAGE P.S. 6 20 99.7
Southern Water Freshwater River MAPLE WALK TANK CSO 1 3 99.9
Southern Water Salt Haven Estuary PEVENSEY BAY HALT (NO2) WWPS 0 0 100
Southern Water To English Channel ROEDEAN CLOSE BEXHILL CSO 0 0 99.7
Southern Water River Limden OLD FORGE TICEHURST CSO 0 0 100
Southern Water English Channel RICHMOND ROAD BEXHILL CSO 0 0 38
Southern Water River Brede SEDLESCOMBE BRIDGE CEO 0 0 99
Southern Water River Line NORTH TRADE ROAD BATTLE CSO 0 0 21.2

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

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