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Freshwater River polluted by sewage 1,125 times in 2025 - lasting 5,549 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Freshwater River LEWES ROAD LINDFIELD 50 429 100
Southern Water Freshwater River UPPER DICKER SEWAGE P.S. 47 359 99.4
Southern Water Freshwater River YALDING P.S. 42 342 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River NO1 CSO STATION RD ROBERTSBRIDGE 71 304 100
Southern Water Freshwater River PARTRIDGE PLACE PUMPING STATION 34 294 99.5
Southern Water Freshwater River REAR OF 35 PELHAM ROAD 50 286 99.6
Southern Water Freshwater River HAZELDEN PS CSO 35 254 99.7
Southern Water Freshwater River CHEQUERS PUMPING STATION 34 244 99.8
Southern Water Freshwater River HEADCORN WASTE WATER STATION 29 241 100
Southern Water Freshwater River HOLLANDS ROAD PUMPING STATION 40 206 99.6
Southern Water Freshwater River SEWER MAYNARDS GATE PUMPING STN 32 162 56.4
Southern Water Freshwater River HUGGETTS FARM PUMPING STATION 31 157 99.5
Southern Water Freshwater River DOMEWOOD PUMPING STATION 21 151 99.2
Southern Water Freshwater River TILSMORE P.S., HEATHFIELD 27 148 99.7
Southern Water Freshwater River HURSTPIERPOINT PUMPING STATION 27 139 100
Southern Water Freshwater River BALDWINS HILL PUMPING STATION 25 128 100
Southern Water Freshwater River FREEKS LANE BURGESS HILL CSO 30 123 82.3
Southern Water Freshwater River CSO PELLINGS WOOD 29 100 100
Southern Water Freshwater River BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION 31 100 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River EWHURST LANE PUMPING STATION 17 92 100
Southern Water Freshwater River LAND OFF SAMPSONS LANE 37 85 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River TURNERS MEAD P.S. 13 84 100
Southern Water Freshwater River BEST BEECH WASTE WATER STATION 15 80 100
Southern Water Freshwater River IPING NORT CSO 9 59 100
Southern Water Freshwater River CHESTNUT WALK WWPS 21 58 100
Southern Water Freshwater River NURSERY LANE PUMPING STATION 23 56 100
Southern Water Freshwater River GIBBETTS MARSH PS 22 54 100
Southern Water Freshwater River NEW(BOGNOR MAIN) CSO 10 51 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River HORSMONDEN ROAD PUMPING STATION 12 50 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River BOLNEY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 6 47 99.3
Southern Water Freshwater River COOPERS GREEN PS, UCKFIELD 14 43 99.6
Southern Water Freshwater River BOULDNOR PS 13 42 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River SOUTH ASHFORD P.S. 7 42 100
Southern Water Freshwater River HIGH STREET UCKFIELD CSO 16 40 99
Southern Water Freshwater River BOLNEY WOOD PUMPING STATION CEO 17 39 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River RYE ROAD 4 33 100
Southern Water Freshwater River WARDS HILL WASTEWATER P S 6 30 100
Southern Water Freshwater River ROOKLEY PS 9 29 100
Southern Water Freshwater River CHIDDINGSTONE CAUSEWAY PUMPING STN 6 25 100
Southern Water Freshwater River CSO AT TOWN QUAY PS ARUNDEL 20 25 100
Southern Water Freshwater River PEVENSEY PS NO 4 CSO 4 25 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River FARHALLS CRESCENT HORSHAM CSO 12 24 100
Southern Water Freshwater River BRIDGEWAYS 6 20 99.7
Southern Water Freshwater River MARDEN OLD WORKS PUMPING STATION 3 19 100
Southern Water Freshwater River PEVENSEY PS NO 3 CSO 5 19 100
Southern Water Freshwater River SEWAGE DRAIN, SMARDEN 3 17 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River LOWER WAITES LANE, FAIRLIGHT, CSO1 6 15 100
Southern Water Freshwater River BELL LANE PUMPING STATION 3 14 99.8
Southern Water Freshwater River MILLBROOK BUSINESS PARK CSO 7 13 100
Southern Water Freshwater River HEYTESBURY PUMPING STATION 5 13 100
Southern Water Freshwater River NOAHS ARK LANE PS 2 12 100
Southern Water Freshwater River COUSLEY WOOD PUMPING STATION 7 12 100
Southern Water Freshwater River CSO AT THE WHARF PS SOUTH AMBERSHAM 3 12 100
Southern Water Freshwater River DOG KENNEL LANE SEWER 8 11 100
Southern Water Freshwater River COW LANE/ELMS VALE ROAD TANK 6 9 100
Southern Water Freshwater River BUCKLAND EAST TANK 10 6 100
Southern Water Freshwater River BRIDGEFOOT PUMPING STATION 1 6 100
Southern Water Freshwater River PORTSMOUTH LANE CSO 2 6 100
Southern Water Freshwater River GARNIER ROAD 2 6 98.8
Southern Water Freshwater River BOARLEY LANE PUMPING STATION 5 5 100
Southern Water Freshwater River LOOP STREET WASTEWATER PS 13 4 100
Southern Water Freshwater River DEAL PUMPING STATION 3 4 90.3
Southern Water Freshwater River ROCK LANE PUMPING STATION 4 4 100
Southern Water Freshwater River GLOUCESTER ROAD CSO 3 2 99.2
Southern Water Freshwater River MAISON DIEU PLACE 1 2 100
Southern Water Freshwater River CUCKFIELD ROAD 10 2 98.6
Southern Water Freshwater River THREE CUPS SEWAGE P.S. 1 2 99.4
Southern Water Freshwater River PETT (GLEBE COTTAGES) WWPS 1 2 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River BLACKGANG PS 2 1 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River TOWN FARM ESTATE PUMPING STATION 1 1 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River FRAMFIELD ROAD SEWAGE PUMPING 1 0 100
Southern Water Freshwater River KINGSBARN LANE PUMPING STATION 1 0 99.8
Southern Water Freshwater River BLACKMORES FARM CSO 1 0 86.1
Southern Water Freshwater River IVYARCH ROAD PS 1 0 81.1
Southern Water Freshwater River BYBROOK PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River MAPLE WALK TANK CSO 0 0 94.9
Southern Water Freshwater River SHRIPNEY ROAD P.S. 0 0 100
Southern Water Freshwater River WATER LANE/ARUNDEL ROAD 0 0 99.7
Southern Water Freshwater River BROOK ROAD WASTEWATER PUMPING 0 0 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River CHESTFIELD STORM TANKS 0 0 100
Southern Water Freshwater River HIGH STREET POLEGATE 0 0 39.5
Southern Water Freshwater River JUNCTION EASST OF FAIRPLACE HILL 0 0 87.9
Southern Water Freshwater River HOREBEECH LANE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Southern Water Freshwater River MARYS COTTAGE 0 0 99.6
Southern Water Freshwater River ROTHERFIELD LANE P.S. 0 0 100
Southern Water Freshwater River STATION ROAD 0 0 35.5

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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