Lewes polluted by sewage 934 times in 2022 - lasting 10,376 hours

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Totals for Lewes in 2022
27 Sites polluted by Southern Water
934 sewage dumps
10,376 h duration
That's 1.2 years! On average 2.6 times a day

Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Lewes in 2022. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Tidal River Ouse HAM LANE LEWES SETTLES STORM TANK 146 2,419 99.9
Southern Water Bevern Stream DITCHLING WWTW 81 1,205 100
Southern Water River Cuckmere THE SPOTS P.S. ALFRISTON 62 1,009 100
Southern Water Bulldog Sewer / Glynde Reach NEAVES LANE RINGMER WWTW 67 968 99.5
Southern Water Glynde Reach GLYNDE NORTH PUMPING STATION 39 614 99.9
Southern Water Bevern Stream BARCOMBE NEW S.T.W. 48 502 97.5
Southern Water English Channel NEWHAVEN WWTW 86 493 97
Southern Water Unnamed Glynde Reach/Ouse RIPE WWTW 36 487 99.6
Southern Water River Adur WIVELSFIELD S.T.W. 32 395 99.8
Southern Water Freshwater River HAZELDEN PS CSO 37 394 96.6
Southern Water River Ouse NEWICK WWTW 44 271 100
Southern Water Bevern Stream STRAWLANDS WWPS 25 250 100
Southern Water Mill Ditch POLEGATE CEO 31 247 100
Southern Water North End Stream.River Ouse COOKSBRIDGE WWPS COOKSBRIDGE 22 225 99.9
Southern Water Celery Sewer River Ouse KINGSTON HOLLOW WWTW 36 181 99.9
Southern Water River Ouse COURT ROAD WWPS, LEWES 22 164 100
Southern Water River Ouse JACKIES LANE NEWICK CEO 30 162 99.6
Southern Water Mill Ditch POLEGATE NO.1 CSO LYNHOLM RD POLEGT 30 119 100
Southern Water Unnamed Herrings Stream SOUTH STREET DITCHLING CSO 8 81 10.2
Southern Water Longford Stream SOUTH STREET CHAILEY SPS 8 58 100
Southern Water Glynde Reach River Ouse GLYNDE SOUTH CEO 7 49 99.2
Southern Water Groundwaters Via Infiltration EAST DEAN WWTW 18 25 100
Southern Water Wannock Mill Stream SOUTHFIELD POLEGATE CSO E'BOURNE RD 6 22 100
Southern Water Tidal River Ouse SEAFORD BAY OUTFALL 4 12 100
Southern Water River Ouse FORT ROAD WASTEWATER PS 3 7 100
Southern Water Glynde Reach SELMESTON CROSSING S.P.S, SELMESTON 5 4 99.8
Southern Water Freshwater River BLACKMORES FARM CSO 1 0 82.7
Southern Water Tidal River Ouse DENTON ISLAND NEWHAVEN CSO 0 0 100
Southern Water River Ouse BEACH ROAD CSO, NEWHAVEN 0 0 37
Southern Water To Bevern Stream BARCOMBE CROSS CSO BARCOMBE 0 0 0
Southern Water English Channel CLIFF END WWPS SEAFORD 0 0 0
Southern Water Freshwater River HIGH STREET POLEGATE 0 0 62.9
Southern Water English Channel At Seaford Bay MARTELLO ROAD SEAFORD CSO 0 0 42.6

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales

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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