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Controlled Sea polluted by sewage 238 times in 2025 - lasting 1,217 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Controlled Sea in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Controlled Sea LITTLEHAMPTON WWPS 97 748 100
Southern Water Controlled Sea BOGNOR REGIS WASTEWATER PS 62 159 100
Southern Water Controlled Sea POLEGROVE TANK CSO 10 92 97.4
Southern Water Controlled Sea COODEN BEACH TANK CSO 6 90 98.2
Southern Water Controlled Sea BEXHILL DOWN TANK CSO 6 46 100
Southern Water Controlled Sea TANKERTON BAY OUTFALL 34 29 99.43
Southern Water Controlled Sea HARTFIELD ROAD CSO 10 21 100
Southern Water Controlled Sea ALDWICK AVENUE CSO 4 14 99.2
Southern Water Controlled Sea WESTCLIFF PUMPING STATION 2 5 97.8
Southern Water Controlled Sea CLIFFS END OUTFALL 1 4 100
Southern Water Controlled Sea SANDGATE PUMPING STATION 1 1 100
Southern Water Controlled Sea LONDON ROAD BURGESS HILL CSO 2 0 97.4
Southern Water Controlled Sea ALDWICK ROAD/VICTORIA ROAD CSO 1 0 99.5
Southern Water Controlled Sea ST MILDRED'S BAY CSO 1 0 100
Southern Water Controlled Sea SEA VIEW TERRACE CSO 1 0 99.4
Southern Water Controlled Sea BROADMARK PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Southern Water Controlled Sea ALBION CSO 0 0 99.6
Southern Water Controlled Sea MARINE TERRACE C S O 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.

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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