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Wadhurst

Polluted by sewage 113 times in 2025 lasting 884 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Wadhurst in 2025

4 Sites polluted by Southern Water
113 sewage dumps
884 hours duration
That's 1.23 months. 2.2 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Wadhurst 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 1 of the total 5 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 Tide Brook WASHWELL LANE WWTW 60 677 100
Southern Water Freshwater River BEST BEECH WASTE WATER STATION 15 80 100
Southern Water River Teise WHITEGATES LANE WADHURST WWTW 22 70 99
Southern Water River Teise JONAS LANE WADHURST WPS 16 55 100
Southern Water Bartley Mill Stream 89 QUEENS COTTAGES 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. 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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