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Rye

Polluted by sewage 248 times in 2025 lasting 616 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Totals for Rye in 2025

9 Sites polluted by Southern Water
248 sewage dumps
616 hours duration
That's 3.67 weeks. 4.8 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rye 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 2 of the total 11 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.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Tidal River Rother MILITARY ROAD IDEN CSO 43 255 90.7
Southern Water River Rother RYE WWTW, HARBOUR ROAD, RYE 33 177 100
Southern Water River Tillingham WISH STREET RYE CEO 77 66 100
Southern Water Freshwater River GIBBETTS MARSH PS 22 54 100
Southern Water River Tillingham ST MARGARETS TERRACE RYE CEO 27 23 99.9
Southern Water River Tillingham WINCHELSEA ROAD RYE B CEO 7 18 100
Southern Water Rye Harbour MONKBRETTON BRIDGE RYE WPS 19 10 100
Southern Water River Rother CRICKET SALTS RYE CEO 19 9 98.7
Southern Water River Rother FISHMARKET ROAD RYE CSO 1 0 23.4
Southern Water River Tillingham HILL HOUSE RYE CEO 0 0 100
Southern Water Tidal River Rother NORTH SALTS REAR 52 CSO 0 0 46.2

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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