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Currently spilling

Southern Water

Serves Hampshire, Isle of Wight, West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent. Major rivers: Test, Itchen, Arun, Adur, Medway.

Southern Water operates 1,031 monitored storm overflows. 1 is currently spilling. 8 monitors are offline. The Truth Engine has 10 open flags against them right now.

1,031

Storm overflows

1

Active right now

8

Monitors offline

10

Open flags

0

Spills · last 7 days

0 h

Cumulative discharge · 30 days

Avg event length · 30 days

0

Spills · last 24 hours

Spill record· last 12 months · network-wide

1,255

spill events

+1530% vs prior 12m

80,415h

cumulative discharge

+34942% vs prior 12m

6 weeks

longest single event (all time)

2020-01-15

first event on record

Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, Southern Water averaged 0.0h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 107.9h per overflow. ranked 1 of 10 of UK water companies by 30-day spill hours per monitored overflow.

Most-discharged-into watercourses

The 12 watercourses with the most Southern Water overflows discharging into them.

Currently spilling· 1

  1. 01

    LAVANT

    SWS00496 · spilling for 5 weeks

Truth Engine flags against Southern Water· 10 open

Monitors offline· 8