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Mid Sussex - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 4,223 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 195 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Mid Sussex so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

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.

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Daily Data

Jan - 2,560 hours
Feb - 1,662 hours , 134 offline
Mar - 0 hours , 61 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Southern Water NEWBURY LANE CUCKFIELD SSO - 115919 River Adur 47 977 h 49m -
Southern Water GODDARDS GREEN SSO - 115410 River Adur East 45 736 h 1m -
Southern Water LEWES ROAD LINDFIELD CEO - 108273 Scrase Stream 37 548 h 22m -
Southern Water PELHAM ROAD LINDFIELD CSO - 108308 Freshwater River 29 313 h 46m -
Southern Water MALTHOUSE LANE BURGESS HILL CEO - 108281 Pook Bourne 20 279 h 2m -
Southern Water STAPLEFIELD CSO - 116128 River Ouse 26 277 h 49m -
Southern Water WILLOW WAY HURSTPIERPOINT CSO - 103302 Unnamed Herrings Stream 26 169 h 17m -
Southern Water HAYLIND ROAD HAYWARDS HEATH CSO - 111829 Scrase Stream 18 151 h 4m -
Southern Water PASTURE HILL ROAD CSO - 111608 Scrase Stream 17 147 h 57m -
Southern Water CUCKFIELD ROAD HURSTPIERPOINT CEO - 108259 Freshwater River 18 147 h 39m -
Southern Water FAIRPLACE HILL BURGESS HILL CEO - 108196 River Adur 17 113 h 42m -
Southern Water FREEKS LANE BURGESS HILL CSO - 108229 Freshwater River 16 88 h 28m -
Southern Water CHAPEL ROAD BOLNEY CEO - 108202 Freshwater River 10 81 h 50m -
Southern Water FELRIDE HAYWARDS HEATH CSO - 108805 River Adur 14 73 h 42m -
Southern Water RUMBOLDS LANE HAYWARDS HEATH CSO - 108326 River Adur Via Sws 7 47 h 48m 195 h
Southern Water PENN CRESCENT HAYWARDS HEATH OUTSIDE XX CSO - 108309 Dark Water 5 32 h 9m -
Southern Water PENN CRESCENT HAYWARDS HEATH OUTSIDE XX CSO - 108310 Scrase Stream 3 15 h 58m -
Southern Water PORTSMOUTH LANE LINDFIELD CEO - 108316 Freshwater River 3 14 h 32m -
Southern Water WESTERN ROAD HAYWARDS HEATH CSO - 108811 Of Scrase Bridge Stream 2 3 h 34m -
Southern Water NOAHS ARK LANE LINDFIELD CEO - 108290 Freshwater River 1 2 h 47m -
Southern Water FELRIDE HAYWARDS HEATH CSO - 108805 River Adur 0 0 h -
Southern Water PARK ROAD BURGESS HILL CSO - 109220 Pookbourne Stream 0 0 h -
Southern Water HAYLIND ROAD HAYWARDS HEATH CSO - 111829 Scrase Stream 0 0 h -
Southern Water WILLOW WAY HURSTPIERPOINT CSO - 103302 Unnamed Herrings Stream 0 0 h -
Southern Water PENN CRESCENT HAYWARDS HEATH OUTSIDE XX CSO - 108310 Scrase Stream 0 0 h -
Southern Water POYNINGS SSO - 116295 Adjacent Stream. River Adur 0 0 h -
Southern Water PORTSMOUTH LANE LINDFIELD CEO - 108316 Freshwater River 0 0 h -
Southern Water MALTHOUSE LANE BURGESS HILL CEO - 108281 Pook Bourne 0 0 h -
Southern Water CUCKFIELD ROAD HURSTPIERPOINT 112 CSO - 108218 Freshwater River 0 0 h -
Southern Water PELHAM ROAD LINDFIELD CSO - 108308 Freshwater River 0 0 h -
Southern Water NEWBURY LANE CUCKFIELD SSO - 115919 River Adur 0 0 h -
Southern Water FREEKS LANE BURGESS HILL CSO - 108229 Freshwater River 0 0 h -
Southern Water POYNINGS SSO - 116295 Adjacent Stream. River Adur 0 0 h -
Southern Water STAPLEFIELD CSO - 116128 River Ouse 0 0 h -
Southern Water WESTERN ROAD HAYWARDS HEATH CSO - 108811 Of Scrase Bridge Stream 0 0 h -
Southern Water NOAHS ARK LANE LINDFIELD CEO - 108290 Freshwater River 0 0 h -
Southern Water CHAPEL ROAD BOLNEY CEO - 108202 Freshwater River 0 0 h -
Southern Water CUCKFIELD ROAD HURSTPIERPOINT CEO - 108259 Freshwater River 0 0 h -
Southern Water GODDARDS GREEN SSO - 115410 River Adur East 0 0 h -
Southern Water PENN CRESCENT HAYWARDS HEATH OUTSIDE XX CSO - 108309 Dark Water 0 0 h -
Southern Water FAIRPLACE HILL BURGESS HILL CEO - 108196 River Adur 0 0 h -
Southern Water MILL GREEN ROAD HAYWARDS HEATH CSO - 108287 Scrase Bridge Stream 0 0 h -
Southern Water PARK ROAD BURGESS HILL CSO - 109220 Pookbourne Stream 0 0 h -
Southern Water PASTURE HILL ROAD CSO - 111608 Scrase Stream 0 0 h -
Southern Water CUCKFIELD ROAD HURSTPIERPOINT 112 CSO - 108218 Freshwater River 0 0 h -
Southern Water MILL GREEN ROAD HAYWARDS HEATH CSO - 108287 Scrase Bridge Stream 0 0 h -
Southern Water RUMBOLDS LANE HAYWARDS HEATH CSO - 108326 River Adur Via Sws 0 0 h -
Southern Water LEWES ROAD LINDFIELD CEO - 108273 Scrase Stream 0 0 h -

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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