North Sea polluted by sewage 153 times in 2023 - lasting 1,016 hours

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Totals for North Sea in 2023
5 Sites polluted by Southern Water
153 sewage dumps
1,016 h duration
That's 1.41 months. 2.9 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North Sea in 2023. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water North Sea SWALECLIFFE WWTW 129 961 99.95
Southern Water North Sea KINGS HALL WPS, HERNE BAY 15 40 100
Southern Water North Sea MARGATE HEADWORKS 4 12 99.9
Southern Water North Sea WESTCLIFFE DRIVE MINSTER IOS PS Q18 4 1 99.8
Southern Water North Sea LITTLE GROVES LEYSDOWN ON SEA WWPS 1 1 100
Southern Water North Sea WARDEN BAY PUMPING STATION 0 0 31.8

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. This 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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