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East Worthing and Shoreham - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,036 hours in 2026 so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in East Worthing and Shoreham so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 175 hours
Feb - 677 hours
Mar - 177 hours
Apr - 0 hours
May - 1 hours
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
Aug - 6 hours
Sept - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Southern Water EAST WORTHING CSO - 115407 English Channel 64 920h 51m -
Southern Water SHOREHAM CSO - 115434 English Channel 20 69h 51m -
Southern Water SOMPTING ROAD WORTHING OUTSIDE 22 CSO - 108336 Teville Stream 9 46h 11m -
Southern Water EAST WORTHING CEO - 115406 English Channel 1 0h -
Southern Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Southern Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Southern Water ALBION STREET PORTSLADE EMO - 110362 English Channel 0 0h -
Southern Water ALBION STREET PORTSLADE EMO - 110362 English Channel 0 0h -
Southern Water THE GREEN SOUTHWICK CSO - 108356 Adur Estuary 0 0h -
Southern Water UPPER SHOREHAM ROAD SHOREHAM CSO - 108819 River Adur 0 0h -
Southern Water SOMPTING ROAD PENFOLD ROAD WORTHING CSO - 109116 A Of Teville Stream 0 0h -
Southern Water IVY ARCH ROAD WORTHING CSO - 108262 Freshwater River 0 0h -
Southern Water ROPETACKLE STREET SHOREHAM CEO - 108324 River Adur 0 0h -
Southern Water EAST WORTHING CSO - 115407 English Channel 0 0h -
Southern Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Southern Water SHOREHAM CSO - 115434 English Channel 0 0h -
Southern Water WIGMORE ROAD WORTHING OUTSIDE XX CSO - 108381 A Of Teville Stream 0 0h -
Southern Water THE GREEN SOUTHWICK CSO - 108356 Adur Estuary 0 0h -

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.