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Sussex Weald

Polluted by sewage 2,361 times in 2025 lasting 10,997 hours - That's 1.27 years!

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Sussex Weald in 2026

So far this year (as of 15 Aug 2026, 19:15) there has been 13,534 hours of sewage overflows, from 93 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s - that's 1.57 years!

Totals for Sussex Weald in 2025

42 Sites polluted by Southern Water
2,361 sewage dumps
10,997 hours duration
That's 1.27 years. On average 6.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sussex Weald in 2025. 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 2 of the total 49 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Shovelstrode Stream HAMMERWOOD ROAD ASHURST WOOD WPS 104 2,282 99.4
Southern Water Ridgewood Stream HALLAND WWTW 76 1,208 99.8
Southern Water Hurst Haven HAILSHAM NORTH WWTW 74 701 99.9
Southern Water Tide Brook WASHWELL LANE WWTW 60 677 100
Southern Water Kent Water COWDEN WWTW, COWDEN, TUNBRIDGE WELL 47 506 100
Southern Water Eridge Stream REDGATE MILL CROWBOROUGH WWTW 44 491 66.6
Southern Water Waldron Ghyll VINES CROSS WWTW 43 457 100
Southern Water Tickerage Stream BLACKBOYS WWTW 48 397 99.2
Southern Water River Cuckmere HORSEBRIDGE PUMPING STATION 45 388 99.85
Southern Water Glynde Reach EAST HOATHLY S.T.W. 1,152 359 100
Southern Water Pippingford Brook ST. JOHN'S, CROWBOROUGH WWTW 38 316 100
Southern Water River Medway HARTFIELD S.T.W. 30 312 100
Southern Water River Teise FRANT S.T.W. 45 264 99.7
Southern Water River Medway FOREST ROW WWTW 20 232 97.1
Southern Water Framfield Stream FRAMFIELD CEO 33 213 100
Southern Water River Grom GROOMBRIDGE WWPS 21 199 100
Southern Water Horse Eye Sewer HAILSHAM SOUTH WWTW 52 183 100
Southern Water Eridge Stream TOWN ROW ROTHERFIELD NO 1 CSO 32 176 100
Southern Water Freshwater River SEWER MAYNARDS GATE PUMPING STN 32 162 56.4
Southern Water Freshwater River HUGGETTS FARM PUMPING STATION 31 157 99.5
Southern Water Controlled Waters LITTLEBROOK WALDRON CEO 31 151 100
Southern Water Freshwater River TILSMORE P.S., HEATHFIELD 27 148 99.7
Southern Water Coggins Mill Stream CROUCH FARM MAYFIELD WWTW 23 126 99.8
Southern Water Herons Ghyll WOODLAND, OCKLYE CSO, GLENMORE ROAD 28 126 100
Southern Water River Rother MERES FARM MAYFIELD WWTW 30 122 100
Southern Water Freshwater River CSO PELLINGS WOOD 29 100 100
Southern Water Freshwater River BEST BEECH WASTE WATER STATION 15 80 100
Southern Water Jarvis Brook JARVIS BROOK CSO 12 73 100
Southern Water River Teise WHITEGATES LANE WADHURST WWTW 22 70 99
Southern Water Eridge Stream TOWN ROW ROTHERFIELD NO 2 CSO 19 70 88.7
Southern Water River Teise JONAS LANE WADHURST WPS 16 55 100
Southern Water Freshwater River BOLNEY WOOD PUMPING STATION CEO 17 39 99.9
Southern Water Warbleton Stream PUNNETTS TOWN WPS 12 35 100
Southern Water Cuckmere River BRAMBLE DRIVE HAILSHAM CSO 9 24 78.6
Southern Water River Rother BROAD OAK PUMPING STATION 13 21 96.9
Southern Water Hurst Haven AMBERSTONE VIEW CSO, HAILSHAM 8 19 100
Southern Water Freshwater River MILLBROOK BUSINESS PARK CSO 7 13 100
Southern Water Freshwater River COUSLEY WOOD PUMPING STATION 7 12 100
Southern Water Clippingham Stream RUSHLAKE GREEN WWTW 1 9 100
Southern Water Jarvis Brook ALDERBROOK WAY CSO 6 4 100
Southern Water Freshwater River THREE CUPS SEWAGE P.S. 1 2 99.4
Southern Water Freshwater River TOWN FARM ESTATE PUMPING STATION 1 1 99.9
Southern Water Bartley Mill Stream 89 QUEENS COTTAGES CSO 0 0 0
Southern Water Freshwater River HOREBEECH LANE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Southern Water Freshwater River MARYS COTTAGE 0 0 99.6
Southern Water Waldron Ghyll PAYNES BRIDGE 0 0 100
Southern Water Freshwater River ROTHERFIELD LANE P.S. 0 0 100
Southern Water Freshwater River STATION ROAD 0 0 35.5
Southern Water River Rother THE WARREN P.S. 0 0 100

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.

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