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

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

27 Sites polluted by Southern Water

Pollution Summary 2022

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