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English Channel polluted by sewage 717 times in 2025 - lasting 4,297 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water English Channel SANDOWN WWTW 140 1,620 99.95
Southern Water English Channel BEXHILL AND HASTINGS WWTW 99 818 100
Southern Water English Channel WEST HYTHE WWTW 104 555 99.8
Southern Water English Channel NEWHAVEN WWTW 72 256 99.6
Southern Water English Channel DOVER AND FOLKESTONE WASTE WATER 61 253 99.67
Southern Water English Channel EASTBOURNE WWTW 59 238 79.73
Southern Water English Channel WORTHING WWTW 39 166 99.3
Southern Water English Channel MARINE DRIVE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 36 119 100
Southern Water English Channel SHOREHAM WWTW 39 109 93.75
Southern Water English Channel GALLEY HILL TANKS (NEW) CSO 5 45 99.8
Southern Water English Channel BROADSTAIRS HEADWORKS 13 21 99.9
Southern Water English Channel PORTOBELLO SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 6 17 99.85
Southern Water English Channel WINTERSTOKE STORM OUTFALL 6 16 100
Southern Water English Channel BECTON LANE WPS 4 13 100
Southern Water English Channel CLIFF END WWPS SEAFORD 11 9 100
Southern Water English Channel SEA LANE CSO GORING WORTHING 4 7 100
Southern Water English Channel HOPE BEACH WPS 9 7 99.9
Southern Water English Channel SEASIDE ROAD HASTINGS NO1 CEO 2 6 100
Southern Water English Channel ROCK-A-NORE PUMPING STATION 2 5 100
Southern Water English Channel COOMBES GARAGE PUMPING STATION 3 5 100
Southern Water English Channel EASTERN GARDENS WPS 2 1 90.3
Southern Water English Channel LION POINT TRANSFER PS 1 0 100
Southern Water English Channel RICHMOND ROAD BEXHILL CSO 0 0 100
Southern Water English Channel BLACK ROCK WASTEWATER PUMPING STATN 0 0 99.6
Southern Water English Channel CHURCH ROAD SELSEY CSO 0 0 85.5
Southern Water English Channel EAST BEACH ROAD SELSEY CSO 0 0 68.4
Southern Water English Channel CINQUE PORTS WAY HASTINGS CEO 0 0 100
Southern Water English Channel FISHERMANS COTTAGE CSO 0 0 99.9
Southern Water English Channel FLOWERS BROOK TRANSFER PS 0 0 99.9

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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