East Grinstead and Uckfield was polluted by sewage 1,416 times in 2023
lasting 14,584 hours - that's 1.69 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for East Grinstead and Uckfield in 2023
36 Sites polluted by Southern Water, Thames Water
1,416 sewage dumps
14,584 h duration
That's 1.69 years! On average 3.9 times a day
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Daily Data Since 2023
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for East Grinstead and Uckfield 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 1 of the total 42 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water River Uck BUXTED WWTW 99 1,682 99.4
Southern Water River Ouse BALCOMBE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 121 1,401 99.65
Southern Water River Ouse DANEHILL S.T.W. 90 1,400 100
Southern Water Cockhaise Brook HORSTED KEYNES WWTW 85 1,274 99.7
Southern Water Bevern Stream BARCOMBE NEW S.T.W. 91 995 98
Southern Water River Medway HARTFIELD ROAD CSO 77 832 99.9
Southern Water Shortbridge Stream MARESFIELD WWTW 50 780 99.5
Southern Water River Ouse SCAYNES HILL WWTW 64 675 99.65
Southern Water River Ouse JACKIES LANE NEWICK CEO 62 627 99.8
Southern Water River Ouse NEWICK WWTW 68 607 99.85
Southern Water River Adur WIVELSFIELD S.T.W. 54 509 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River HAZELDEN PS CSO 65 505 100
Southern Water Pippingford Brook NUTLEY WWTW 49 490 99.9
Southern Water Coombe Brook WEST HOATHLY S.T.W. 43 398 100
Southern Water Lywood Stream ARDINGLY WWTW 36 366 100
Southern Water Freshwater River PARTRIDGE PLACE PUMPING STATION 49 364 99.9
Southern Water North End Stream.River Ouse COOKSBRIDGE WWPS COOKSBRIDGE 37 286 100
Southern Water River Medway WITHYPITTS PUMPING STATION 44 239 99.8
Southern Water Shortbridge Stream FAIRWARP PUMPING STATION 23 235 99.9
Southern Water River Medway CSO AT STATION ROAD - FOREST ROW 18 198 30.7
Southern Water Ridgewood Stream UCKFIELD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 20 169 99.5
Thames Water Gatwick Stream Pease Pottage 15 139 84
Southern Water Freshwater River HIGH STREET UCKFIELD CSO 31 84 100
Southern Water Freshwater River COOPERS GREEN PS, UCKFIELD 18 63 99.1
Southern Water Cockhaise Brook WEST HOATHLY CEO 24 54 96.1
Southern Water River Medway HAZEL WAY PUMPING STATION 16 49 99.9
Southern Water Sunnyside Stream LUXFORD LN-EAST GRINSTEAD S.T.W. 9 33 99.2
Southern Water Longford Stream SOUTH STREET CHAILEY SPS 5 28 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River FRAMFIELD ROAD SEWAGE PUMPING 8 27 99.8
Southern Water Freshwater River NURSERY LANE PUMPING STATION 11 20 98.8
Southern Water Balcombe Lake ST JAMES COTTAGE BALCOMBE CSO 14 20 99.9
Southern Water Felbridge Wtr FERNHILL CLOSE CRAWLEY DOWN 2 6 27.4
Southern Water R Medway DALLAWAY GDNS E GRINSTEAD CSO 9 5 65.2
Southern Water Freshwater River BELL LANE PUMPING STATION 4 4 100
Southern Water Lywood Stream River Ouse ARDINGLY WWTW, ARDINGLY 3 3 100
Southern Water Unamed Medway Via Pond MOUNT NODDY CEM. EAST GRINSTEAD CSO 2 2 100
Southern Water Eden Vale Stream CHARLWOODS ROAD EAST GRINSTEAD CSO 0 0 49.6
Southern Water Freshwater River BLACKMORES FARM CSO 0 0 64.3
Southern Water River Ouze SCHOOL LANE DANEHILL CSO 0 0 12.7
Southern Water Shovelstrode Stream GLEAVE CLOSE EAST GRINSTEAD CEO 0 0 99.2
Southern Water Framfield Stream CSO, FRAMFIELD ROAD, UCKFIELD, E/S 0 0 0
Southern Water Tickerage Stream BRITTS FARM BUXTED CEO 0 0 99.7

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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