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East Grinstead and Uckfield

Polluted by sewage 953 times in 2025 lasting 5,383 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for East Grinstead and Uckfield in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 9,372 hours of sewage overflows, from 87 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s - that's 1.08 years!

Totals for East Grinstead and Uckfield in 2025

40 Sites polluted by Southern Water Thames Water
953 sewage dumps
5,383 hours duration
That's 7.48 months. On average 2.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for East Grinstead and Uckfield 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 constituency 2 of the total 42 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 Ouse DANEHILL S.T.W. 49 636 99.8
Southern Water Bevern Stream BARCOMBE NEW S.T.W. 49 510 100
Southern Water Coombe Brook WEST HOATHLY S.T.W. 44 483 100
Southern Water River Ouse BALCOMBE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 40 470 97.25
Southern Water River Medway HARTFIELD ROAD CSO 56 438 100
Southern Water River Adur WIVELSFIELD S.T.W. 42 346 100
Southern Water Freshwater River PARTRIDGE PLACE PUMPING STATION 34 294 99.5
Southern Water River Ouse SCAYNES HILL WWTW 32 291 100
Southern Water Freshwater River HAZELDEN PS CSO 35 254 99.7
Southern Water River Medway WITHYPITTS PUMPING STATION 29 176 99.4
Southern Water River Uck BUXTED WWTW 19 170 100
Southern Water Lywood Stream ARDINGLY WWTW 17 122 98.1
Southern Water Shortbridge Stream MARESFIELD WWTW 13 114 97.7
Southern Water Pippingford Brook NUTLEY WWTW 18 110 100
Southern Water River Ouse JACKIES LANE NEWICK CEO 23 105 99.8
Southern Water River Ouse NEWICK WWTW 33 100 100
Thames Water Gatwick Stream Pease Pottage 12 98 91.7
Southern Water North End Stream.River Ouse COOKSBRIDGE WWPS COOKSBRIDGE 13 79 100
Southern Water Cockhaise Brook HORSTED KEYNES WWTW 11 78 99.95
Southern Water Freshwater River NURSERY LANE PUMPING STATION 23 56 100
Southern Water Sunnyside Stream LUXFORD LN-EAST GRINSTEAD S.T.W. 15 55 99.8
Southern Water Shortbridge Stream FAIRWARP PUMPING STATION 10 53 99.8
Southern Water River Medway HAZEL WAY PUMPING STATION 12 52 100
Southern Water Freshwater River COOPERS GREEN PS, UCKFIELD 14 43 99.6
Southern Water Ridgewood Stream UCKFIELD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 6 40 98.1
Southern Water Freshwater River HIGH STREET UCKFIELD CSO 16 40 99
Southern Water River Medway CSO AT STATION ROAD - FOREST ROW 14 38 48.6
Southern Water Cockhaise Brook WEST HOATHLY CEO 10 28 99.4
Southern Water Balcombe Lake ST JAMES COTTAGE BALCOMBE CSO 240 25 88.4
Southern Water Felbridge Wtr FERNHILL CLOSE CRAWLEY DOWN 4 22 17.6
Southern Water Freshwater River BELL LANE PUMPING STATION 3 14 99.8
Southern Water Longford Stream SOUTH STREET CHAILEY SPS 1 8 99.5
Southern Water Lywood Stream River Ouse ARDINGLY WWTW, ARDINGLY 3 5 98.1
Southern Water R Medway DALLAWAY GDNS E GRINSTEAD CSO 4 5 98.5
Southern Water Shovelstrode Stream GLEAVE CLOSE EAST GRINSTEAD CEO 1 4 100
Southern Water River Ouze SCHOOL LANE DANEHILL CSO 2 2 59.3
Southern Water Eden Vale Stream CHARLWOODS ROAD EAST GRINSTEAD CSO 3 2 98.5
Southern Water Unamed Medway Via Pond MOUNT NODDY CEM. EAST GRINSTEAD CSO 1 0 84.2
Southern Water Freshwater River FRAMFIELD ROAD SEWAGE PUMPING 1 0 100
Southern Water Freshwater River BLACKMORES FARM CSO 1 0 86.1
Southern Water Tickerage Stream BRITTS FARM BUXTED CEO 0 0 100
Southern Water Framfield Stream CSO, FRAMFIELD ROAD, UCKFIELD, E/S 0 0 99.5

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.

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