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Polluted by sewage 501 times in 2025 lasting 2,130 hours
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Hastings and Rye 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 2 of the total 31 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Water | River Rother | IDEN WWTW | 61 | 840 | 99.9 |
| Southern Water | Tidal River Rother | MILITARY ROAD IDEN CSO | 43 | 255 | 90.7 |
| Southern Water | River Rother | RYE WWTW, HARBOUR ROAD, RYE | 33 | 177 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Pannel Sewer | GUESTLING GREEN WWTW | 54 | 152 | 99.9 |
| Southern Water | River Rother | PEASMARSH WPS | 23 | 110 | 99.3 |
| Southern Water | Marsham Sewer | FAIRLIGHT WWTW | 19 | 104 | 99.5 |
| Southern Water | River Brede | FERRY HILL WINCHELSEA WWTW | 12 | 95 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Royal Military Canal | ICKLESHAM WWTW | 14 | 79 | 99.4 |
| Southern Water | River Tillingham | WISH STREET RYE CEO | 77 | 66 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Freshwater River | GIBBETTS MARSH PS | 22 | 54 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Freshwater River | RYE ROAD | 4 | 33 | 100 |
| Southern Water | River Tillingham | ST MARGARETS TERRACE RYE CEO | 27 | 23 | 99.9 |
| Southern Water | Forge Stream | EBDENS HILL HASTINGS CEO | 13 | 21 | 99.9 |
| Southern Water | River Tillingham | WINCHELSEA ROAD RYE B CEO | 7 | 18 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Guldeford Sewer | LYDD ROAD PUMPING STATION | 5 | 15 | 99.9 |
| Southern Water | Freshwater River | LOWER WAITES LANE, FAIRLIGHT, CSO1 | 6 | 15 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Rye Harbour | MONKBRETTON BRIDGE RYE WPS | 19 | 10 | 100 |
| Southern Water | River Rother | CRICKET SALTS RYE CEO | 19 | 9 | 98.7 |
| Southern Water | English Channel, Via Sewer | ST HELENS DOWN, HASTINGS CSO | 12 | 9 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Marsham Sewer | WAITES LANE | 10 | 8 | 99.9 |
| Southern Water | Marsham Sewer | FAIRLIGHT DRAINAGE SYSTEM | 10 | 7 | 100 |
| Southern Water | English Channel | SEASIDE ROAD HASTINGS NO1 CEO | 2 | 6 | 100 |
| Southern Water | English Channel | ROCK-A-NORE PUMPING STATION | 2 | 5 | 100 |
| Southern Water | English Channel | COOMBES GARAGE PUMPING STATION | 3 | 5 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Freshwater River | PETT (GLEBE COTTAGES) WWPS | 1 | 2 | 99.9 |
| Southern Water | Sailors Stream | MILL LANE HASTINGS CSO | 2 | 2 | 56.5 |
| Southern Water | River Rother | FISHMARKET ROAD RYE CSO | 1 | 0 | 23.4 |
| Southern Water | Doleham Ditch | BURGESS ROAD HASTINGS CEO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Southern Water | English Channel | CINQUE PORTS WAY HASTINGS CEO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Southern Water | River Tillingham | HILL HOUSE RYE CEO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Tidal River Rother | NORTH SALTS REAR 52 CSO | 0 | 0 | 46.2 |
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.
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