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River Rother polluted by sewage 712 times in 2025 - lasting 6,556 hours

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Totals for River Rother in 2025
21 Sites polluted by Southern Water
712 sewage dumps
6,556 h duration
That's 9.11 months. On average 2 times a day

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water River Rother SOUTH HARTING WWTW 97 2,201 100
Southern Water River Rother BARNETTS BRIDGE GRAFFHAM CEO 64 988 99.9
Southern Water River Rother IDEN WWTW 61 840 99.9
Southern Water River Rother FITTLEWORTH S.T.W. 92 599 99.5
Southern Water River Rother SOUTH AMBERSHAM WWTW 28 316 100
Southern Water River Rother LISS WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 25 271 99.7
Southern Water River Rother MILL CORNER NORTHIAM WWTW 40 242 99.9
Southern Water River Rother ROGATE WWTW 25 193 100
Southern Water River Rother WITTERSHAM WWTW 34 187 99.9
Southern Water River Rother RYE WWTW, HARBOUR ROAD, RYE 33 177 100
Southern Water River Rother MERES FARM MAYFIELD WWTW 30 122 100
Southern Water River Rother PEASMARSH WPS 23 110 99.3
Southern Water River Rother PETWORTH WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 36 91 100
Southern Water River Rother STONE GREEN STONE IN OXNEY WWTW 71 83 100
Southern Water River Rother HURST GREEN WWTW 6 37 99.6
Southern Water River Rother BURWASH VILLAGE WWTW 8 35 100
Southern Water River Rother BROAD OAK PUMPING STATION 13 21 96.9
Southern Water River Rother BRICKWALL SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 4 14 100
Southern Water River Rother STATION ROAD LISS CSO 2 10 99.7
Southern Water River Rother CRICKET SALTS RYE CEO 19 9 98.7
Southern Water River Rother FISHMARKET ROAD RYE CSO 1 0 23.4
Southern Water River Rother THE WARREN P.S. 0 0 100

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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