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Burgess Hill

Polluted by sewage 267 times in 2025 lasting 2,286 hours

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Totals for Burgess Hill in 2025

8 Sites polluted by Southern Water
267 sewage dumps
2,286 hours duration
That's 3.17 months. 5.1 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Burgess Hill 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 place all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water River Adur East GODDARDS GREEN WWTW 72 817 95.2
Southern Water River Adur FOXHILL HAYWARDS HEATH CEO 59 758 99.9
Southern Water River Adur WIVELSFIELD S.T.W. 42 346 100
Southern Water River Adur FAIRPLACE HILL WPS 30 156 99.5
Southern Water Freshwater River FREEKS LANE BURGESS HILL CSO 30 123 82.3
Southern Water Pook Bourne MALTHOUSE LANE PUMPING STATION 30 82 99.9
Southern Water Controlled Sea LONDON ROAD BURGESS HILL CSO 2 0 97.4
Southern Water Pookbourne Stream PARK ROAD BURGESS HILL CSO 2 0 62.3
Southern Water Freshwater River JUNCTION EASST OF FAIRPLACE HILL 0 0 87.9

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. 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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