Mid Sussex was polluted by sewage 710 times in 2023
lasting 6,917 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Mid Sussex in 2023
22 Sites polluted by Southern Water
710 sewage dumps
6,917 h duration
That's 9.61 months. On average 1.9 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Mid Sussex in 2023. 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 1 of the total 25 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water River Adur FOXHILL HAYWARDS HEATH CEO 105 1,573 99.6
Southern Water River Adur CUCKFIELD WWTW 88 1,280 100
Southern Water River Adur East GODDARDS GREEN WWTW 89 1,111 99.7
Southern Water Freshwater River REAR OF 35 PELHAM ROAD 68 613 74.4
Southern Water Unnamed Herrings Stream WILLOW WAY HURSTPIERPOINT CSO 71 353 99.7
Southern Water Controlled Sea LONDON ROAD BURGESS HILL CSO 16 283 100
Southern Water Freshwater River NOAHS ARK LANE PS 15 250 99.6
Southern Water Freshwater River HURSTPIERPOINT PUMPING STATION 44 233 99.8
Southern Water River Adur FAIRPLACE HILL WPS 41 228 99.9
Southern Water Scrase Stream WILLIAM ALLEN LANE CSO 50 223 99.6
Southern Water River Ouse STAPLEFIELD WWTW 33 185 100
Southern Water Scrase Stream PASTURE HILL ROAD COMBINED SEWER 20 166 99.7
Southern Water Adjacent Stream. River Adur POYNINGS WWTW, BRIGHTON 6 118 100
Southern Water Freshwater River FREEKS LANE BURGESS HILL CSO 16 108 22.1
Southern Water River Adur Via Sws RUMBOLDS LANE HAYWARDS HEATH CEO 18 80 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River BOLNEY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 10 63 99.7
Southern Water Scrase Bridge Stream MILL GREEN ROAD HAYWARDS 8 28 88.5
Southern Water Freshwater River PORTSMOUTH LANE CSO 3 5 100
Southern Water Pook Bourne MALTHOUSE LANE PUMPING STATION 2 5 98.6
Southern Water Of Scrase Bridge Stream WESTERN ROAD HAYWARDS HEATH CSO 2 1 49.5
Southern Water Pookbourne Stream PARK ROAD BURGESS HILL CSO 1 1 23.4
Southern Water Freshwater River CUCKFIELD ROAD 4 0 99.5
Southern Water River Adur FELRIDE HAYWARDS HEATH CSO 0 0 0
Southern Water Freshwater River LEWES ROAD LINDFIELD 0 0 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River JUNCTION EASST OF FAIRPLACE HILL 0 0 74.9

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. 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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