Lewes - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 6,661 hours in 2025

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Lewes for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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.

Totals for Lewes in 2025

Sewage6,661 hours
Monitoring offline0 hours
Potential pollution0 hours
Storm overflows52

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Daily Data

Jan - 1,891 hours
Feb - 981 hours
Mar - 565 hours
Apr - 232 hours
May - 11 hours
Jun - 19 hours
Jul - 156 hours
Aug - 16 hours
Sept - 231 hours
Oct - 529 hours
Nov - 487 hours
Dec - 1,524 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Southern Water HAM LANE LEWES NEW SSO - 115974 Tidal River Ouse 99 1,643h -
Southern Water DITCHLING SSO - 115798 Bevern Stream 54 788h 44m -
Southern Water LAUGHTON CSO - 108272 Glynde Reach 39 442h 35m -
Southern Water DITCHLING SSO - 115798 Bevern Stream 23 388h 18m -
Southern Water HAM LANE LEWES NEW SSO - 115974 Tidal River Ouse 31 332h 58m -
Southern Water NEAVES LANE RINGMER SSO - 115794 Bulldog Sewer / Glynde Reach 33 311h 35m -
Southern Water NEAVES LANE RINGMER SSO - 115794 Bulldog Sewer / Glynde Reach 18 270h -
Southern Water UPPER DICKER CEO - 108776 Freshwater River 36 261h 55m -
Southern Water DITTONS ROAD POLEGATE CSO - 111654 Drockmill Hill Gut 25 220h 5m -
Southern Water ALFRISTON CEO - 108359 River Cuckmere 11 204h 26m -
Southern Water LAUGHTON CSO - 108272 Glynde Reach 13 173h 51m -
Southern Water RIPE CEO - 116043 Unnamed Glynde Reach/Ouse 19 161h 17m -
Southern Water NEWHAVEN MAIN CSO - 116065 English Channel 33 153h 33m -
Southern Water WILLINGDON NO 2 CEO - 108777 New Stream Ditch 22 147h 30m -
Southern Water UPPER DICKER CEO - 108776 Freshwater River 14 129h 18m -
Southern Water LYNHOLM ROAD POLEGATE NO.2 SSO - 115316 Mill Ditch 21 122h 44m -
Southern Water WILLINGDON NO 1 CSO - 108383 New Stream Ditch 19 106h 20m -
Southern Water COURT ROAD LEWES CEO - 110624 River Ouse 6 105h 15m -
Southern Water WILLINGDON NO 1 CSO - 108383 New Stream Ditch 11 100h 18m -
Southern Water SELMESTON CEO - 108884 Glynde Reach 7 86h 16m -
Southern Water LYNHOLM ROAD POLEGATE NO.1 CSO - 115317 Mill Ditch 16 73h 34m -
Southern Water NEWHAVEN MAIN CSO - 116065 English Channel 11 68h 40m -
Southern Water LYNHOLM ROAD POLEGATE NO.2 SSO - 115316 Mill Ditch 6 50h 52m -
Southern Water DITTONS ROAD POLEGATE CSO - 111654 Drockmill Hill Gut 5 45h 23m -
Southern Water WILLINGDON NO 2 CEO - 108777 New Stream Ditch 6 44h 24m -
Southern Water STRAWLANDS PLUMPTON GREEN CEO - 108350 Bevern Stream 7 41h 56m -
Southern Water RIPE CEO - 116043 Unnamed Glynde Reach/Ouse 4 34h 4m -
Southern Water LYNHOLM ROAD POLEGATE NO.1 CSO - 115317 Mill Ditch 6 32h 25m -
Southern Water SOUTH STREET DITCHLING CSO - 109528 Unnamed Herrings Stream 5 24h 16m -
Southern Water STRAWLANDS PLUMPTON GREEN CEO - 108350 Bevern Stream 3 21h 37m -
Southern Water KINGSTON HOLLOW CEO - 115990 Celery Sewer River Ouse 12 16h 55m -
Southern Water BERWICK SSO - 115848 River Cuckmere 3 12h 26m -
Southern Water SOUTH STREET DITCHLING CSO - 109528 Unnamed Herrings Stream 9 10h 8m -
Southern Water KINGSTON HOLLOW CEO - 115990 Celery Sewer River Ouse 6 8h 53m -
Southern Water BERWICK SSO - 115848 River Cuckmere 1 7h 1m -
Southern Water CLIFF END SEAFORD CEO - 101257 English Channel 7 5h 59m -
Southern Water EAST DEAN SSO - 115829 Groundwaters Via Infiltration 3 5h 34m -
Southern Water SOUTHFIELD POLEGATE CSO - 108339 Wannock Mill Stream 4 2h 12m -
Southern Water BEACH ROAD NEWHAVEN STORM TANK CSO - 108083 Tidal River Ouse 1 2h 5m -
Southern Water WANNOCK ROAD WANNOCK CSO - 109583 Wannock Mill Stream 4 1h 48m -
Southern Water ALFRISTON CEO - 108359 River Cuckmere 1 0h 37m -
Southern Water CLIFF END SEAFORD CEO - 101257 English Channel 1 0h 26m -
Southern Water BEACH ROAD NEWHAVEN STORM TANK CSO - 108083 Tidal River Ouse 0 0h -
Southern Water SOUTHFIELD POLEGATE CSO - 108339 Wannock Mill Stream 0 0h -
Southern Water GLYNDE SOUTH CEO - 108239 Glynde Reach River Ouse 0 0h -
Southern Water WANNOCK ROAD WANNOCK CSO - 109583 Wannock Mill Stream 0 0h -
Southern Water MARTELLO ROAD SEAFORD CSO - 108081 English Channel At Seaford Bay 0 0h -
Southern Water GLYNDE NORTH CEO - 108238 Glynde Reach 0 0h -
Southern Water COURT ROAD LEWES CEO - 110624 River Ouse 0 0h -
Southern Water EAST DEAN SSO - 115829 Groundwaters Via Infiltration 0 0h -
Southern Water OXENDEAN GARDENS WILLINGDON CSO - 108303 Willingdon Upper Sewer 0 0h -
Southern Water SELMESTON CEO - 108884 Glynde Reach 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.

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