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Polluted by sewage 364 times in 2024 lasting 2,646 hours
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
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Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Rye in 2024. 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 1 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 | River Rother | RYE WWTW, HARBOUR ROAD, RYE | 70 | 866 | 99.8 |
| Southern Water | Tidal River Rother | MILITARY ROAD IDEN CSO | 68 | 809 | 99.9 |
| Southern Water | River Tillingham | WISH STREET RYE CEO | 109 | 745 | 99.9 |
| Southern Water | River Tillingham | ST MARGARETS TERRACE RYE CEO | 38 | 104 | 99.7 |
| Southern Water | River Rother | CRICKET SALTS RYE CEO | 32 | 81 | 99.9 |
| Southern Water | River Tillingham | WINCHELSEA ROAD RYE B CEO | 17 | 20 | 99.7 |
| Southern Water | Rye Harbour | MONKBRETTON BRIDGE RYE WPS | 27 | 18 | 99.9 |
| Southern Water | Tidal River Rother | NORTH SALTS REAR 52 CSO | 2 | 1 | 18.4 |
| Southern Water | River Rother | FISHMARKET ROAD RYE CSO | 1 | 0 | 57.7 |
| Southern Water | Freshwater River | GIBBETTS MARSH PS | 0 | 0 | 99.8 |
| Southern Water | River Tillingham | HILL HOUSE RYE CEO | 0 | 0 | 99.9 |
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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