River Ouse polluted by sewage 508 times in 2023 - lasting 5,200 hours

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Totals for River Ouse in 2023
8 Sites polluted by Southern Water
508 sewage dumps
5,200 h duration
That's 7.22 months. On average 1.4 times a day

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for River Ouse 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 River Ouse BALCOMBE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 121 1,401 99.65
Southern Water River Ouse DANEHILL S.T.W. 90 1,400 100
Southern Water River Ouse SCAYNES HILL WWTW 64 675 99.65
Southern Water River Ouse JACKIES LANE NEWICK CEO 62 627 99.8
Southern Water River Ouse NEWICK WWTW 68 607 99.85
Southern Water River Ouse COURT ROAD WWPS, LEWES 67 284 100
Southern Water River Ouse STAPLEFIELD WWTW 33 185 100
Southern Water River Ouse FORT ROAD WASTEWATER PS 3 18 100
Southern Water River Ouse BEACH ROAD CSO, NEWHAVEN 0 0 64.6

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales

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.

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