Water company · South Coast
Recent spills
Serves Hampshire, Isle of Wight, West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent. Major rivers: Test, Itchen, Arun, Adur, Medway.
Southern Water operates 1,045 monitored storm overflows. 2 monitors are offline. In the last 30 days the network has discharged a cumulative 4 weeks across 128 events on average. The Truth Engine has 7 open flags against them right now.
1,045
Storm overflows
0
Active right now
2
Monitors offline
7
Open flags
32
Spills · last 7 days
4 weeks
Cumulative discharge · 30 days
2 h
Avg event length · 30 days
1
Spills · last 24 hours
1,807
spill events
9,959h
cumulative discharge
19 weeks
longest single event (all time)
2020-01-15
first event on record
Across 10 water companies in the EA dataset, Southern Water averaged 0.7h per monitored overflow in the last 30 days. The national median was 2.4h per overflow. ranked 3 of 10 of UK water companies by 30-day spill hours per monitored overflow.
The 12 watercourses with the most Southern Water overflows discharging into them.