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Horsham

Polluted by sewage 475 times in 2025 lasting 5,257 hours

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Live data for Horsham in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 7,625 hours of sewage overflows, from 30 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Horsham in 2025

13 Sites polluted by Southern Water Thames Water
475 sewage dumps
5,257 hours duration
That's 7.3 months. On average 1.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Horsham 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 Arun MANNINGS HEATH WWTW 76 1,251 100
Southern Water Nuthurst Stream MONKS GATE WWTW 77 1,103 100
Southern Water Cowfold Stream River Adur COWFOLD WWTW 45 499 100
Southern Water Par Brook BILLINGSHURST WWTW 44 420 100
Southern Water Parsons Brook BARNS GREEN WWTW 47 417 99.7
Southern Water River Arun SLINFOLD WWTW 40 392 100
Southern Water River Adur PARTRIDGE GREEN S.T.W. 43 361 99.4
Southern Water Boldings Brook, River Arun WARNHAM WWTW 29 275 100
Southern Water River Arun HORSHAM WWTW 27 268 99.7
Southern Water Par Brook LAND ADJ. BILLINGSHURST PUMP. STN 15 104 100
Southern Water River Arun RUDGWICK RECREATION GROUND CSO 13 88 93.1
Southern Water Horn Brook KERVES LANE HORSHAM WPS 7 49 99.1
Southern Water Freshwater River FARHALLS CRESCENT HORSHAM CSO 12 24 100
Thames Water Ifield Brook COLGATE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 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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