Sussex Weald was polluted by sewage 2,102 times in 2023
lasting 23,895 hours - that's 2.77 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Sussex Weald in 2023
44 Sites polluted by Southern Water
2,102 sewage dumps
23,895 h duration
That's 2.77 years! On average 5.8 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sussex Weald 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 49 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 Ridgewood Stream HALLAND WWTW 140 2,822 99.5
Southern Water Shovelstrode Stream HAMMERWOOD ROAD ASHURST WOOD WPS 103 2,039 99.8
Southern Water Tide Brook WASHWELL LANE WWTW 97 1,549 98.9
Southern Water Waldron Ghyll VINES CROSS WWTW 86 1,405 100
Southern Water River Cuckmere HORSEBRIDGE PUMPING STATION 84 1,286 99.3
Southern Water River Teise FRANT S.T.W. 87 1,264 100
Southern Water Eridge Stream REDGATE MILL CROWBOROUGH WWTW 82 1,242 99.95
Southern Water Hurst Haven HAILSHAM NORTH WWTW 110 1,197 99.3
Southern Water Glynde Reach EAST HOATHLY S.T.W. 66 939 100
Southern Water Pippingford Brook ST. JOHN'S, CROWBOROUGH WWTW 77 868 99.6
Southern Water River Medway HARTFIELD S.T.W. 61 851 100
Southern Water Tickerage Stream BLACKBOYS WWTW 81 851 99.3
Southern Water Kent Water COWDEN WWTW, COWDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELL 68 830 99.8
Southern Water River Medway FOREST ROW WWTW 57 796 98.3
Southern Water Controlled Waters LITTLEBROOK WALDRON CEO 64 620 99.7
Southern Water River Grom GROOMBRIDGE WWPS 54 602 100
Southern Water Freshwater River HUGGETTS FARM PUMPING STATION 58 569 100
Southern Water Freshwater River TILSMORE P.S., HEATHFIELD 58 510 99.7
Southern Water Horse Eye Sewer HAILSHAM SOUTH WWTW 76 451 99.1
Southern Water Coggins Mill Stream CROUCH FARM MAYFIELD WWTW 42 432 99.2
Southern Water Framfield Stream FRAMFIELD CEO 57 426 99.9
Southern Water Eridge Stream TOWN ROW ROTHERFIELD NO 1 CSO 65 420 99.5
Southern Water Freshwater River SEWER MAYNARDS GATE PUMPING STN 25 220 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River HOREBEECH LANE PUMPING STATION 35 219 99.7
Southern Water River Rother MERES FARM MAYFIELD WWTW 46 216 99.9
Southern Water Herons Ghyll WOODLAND, OCKLYE CSO, GLENMORE ROAD 37 179 99.5
Southern Water Warbleton Stream PUNNETTS TOWN WPS 35 159 99.7
Southern Water Freshwater River CSO PELLINGS WOOD 42 156 99.6
Southern Water Freshwater River BOLNEY WOOD PUMPING STATION CEO 37 153 99.4
Southern Water River Rother BROAD OAK PUMPING STATION 32 116 99.7
Southern Water Freshwater River BEST BEECH WASTE WATER STATION 23 114 99.7
Southern Water Freshwater River TOWN FARM ESTATE PUMPING STATION 12 75 100
Southern Water River Teise WHITEGATES LANE WADHURST WWTW 23 72 98.4
Southern Water Clippingham Stream RUSHLAKE GREEN WWTW 12 65 99.1
Southern Water Hurst Haven AMBERSTONE VIEW CSO, HAILSHAM 17 61 98.2
Southern Water Jarvis Brook ALDERBROOK WAY CSO 16 23 99.5
Southern Water Freshwater River THREE CUPS SEWAGE P.S. 6 20 99.7
Southern Water Freshwater River COUSLEY WOOD PUMPING STATION 5 19 99.6
Southern Water Eridge Stream TOWN ROW ROTHERFIELD NO 2 CSO 8 16 42.3
Southern Water Freshwater River MILLBROOK BUSINESS PARK CSO 8 11 99.7
Southern Water Freshwater River ROTHERFIELD LANE P.S. 3 4 99.7
Southern Water River Teise JONAS LANE WADHURST WPS 4 3 99.7
Southern Water Freshwater River STATION ROAD 1 2 60
Southern Water River Rother THE WARREN P.S. 2 0 98.8
Southern Water Bartley Mill Stream 89 QUEENS COTTAGES CSO 0 0 42.1
Southern Water Jarvis Brook JARVIS BROOK CSO 0 0 99.7
Southern Water Waldron Ghyll PAYNES BRIDGE 0 0 96.9
Southern Water Freshwater River MARYS COTTAGE 0 0 42.1
Southern Water Cuckmere River BRAMBLE DRIVE HAILSHAM CSO 0 0 0

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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