Bognor Regis Wastewater PS

Storm overflow run by Southern Water, discharging into Controlled Sea.

Storm discharge at pumping station Bathing water

Linked bathing waters: Bognor Regis (Aldwick), classified Poor for 2025; Bognor Regis East, classified Sufficient for 2025; Felpham, classified Good for 2025; Pagham, classified Good for 2025. Named in the company’s return to the Environment Agency. A name opens that bathing water’s official profile, with any pollution warning in the season. The classification is the Environment Agency’s for that bathing season, from all its samples there: it is not a reading of the water today, and it does not say what part this overflow played.

Right now
Not discharging
Last discharge ended on (1 day ago).
Times are UK time. Company feed updated 1 min ago

"Not discharging" means the company's monitor reports no discharge right now — not that the water is clean. The feed publishes status only; no discharge volume is measured.

2026 so far
57spills
at least 333 h discharging on 56 days · counted by us, not yet official · 37 discharges whose end the feed did not report (counted, no hours)
2025 official
62spills
159 h · −54% on 2024
Rank in Southern Water
#37
of 970 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
100% working
Long-term average 68.7 spills a year

Year by year

The Environment Agency's official annual returns, counted the EA's way (12/24-hour spills). 2026 is our own running count, the same way, from Southern Water's monitor log and the live feed. The feed reports only each overflow's latest discharge, so a discharge it moved past before we saw it end is counted as one spill with no hours: the hours are a floor. The official figure is published next spring.

2021
48 spills · 223 hmonitor 100%
2022
72 spills · 548 hmonitor 100%
2023
135 spills · 1,620 hmonitor 99.7%
2024
136 spills · 1,271 hmonitor 100%
2025
62 spills · 159 hmonitor 100%
2026so far
57 spills · at least 333 h

A spill is the EA's 12/24-hour count: the first 12 hours of a discharge count as one, each further 24 hours with discharge as one more. "Monitor" is the share of that year the monitor was working, so a 0 beside a working monitor is a real zero; "no data" means the monitor produced no usable data that year — not zero. Years before 2024 are matched to this site by name and location, because the EA's site IDs changed that year; a monitor figure beside one of them means the outlet's permit confirms the match.

What the 2025 return says

From Southern Water's annual return to the Environment Agency for this overflow.

High-spill review
Not asset maintenance - Hydraulic capacity
Long-term review
Performance - GW inundation
Investigation
UWWTR investigation ongoing
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2016
Water body
Sussex

This overflow spilled often enough to trigger the EA's high-spill review; the review line is the company's own stated reason.

Discharges we have recorded

2,177 discharge periods since 14 Jan 2021, 37 whose end the feed never gave. 2,116 of them come from Southern Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (from its Rivers and Seas Watch service, Jan 2021 – Sep 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

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The year figures above use the EA's 12/24-hour counting method, so they are comparable with the official figures; the monitor log's 8,694 raw blocks were merged into 2,177 continuous discharge periods (gaps under 15 min joined).

What the feed showed

FloodRadar's own record of every change of state Southern Water's live feed has shown for this overflow, kept since : 83 states. The feed publishes its status now and its latest discharge, nothing older; the discharges above are read from this. It is here so the figures can be checked.

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Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Aldwick, 3.0 km away. Brown shading = when this overflow was discharging; ▼ = a discharge start.

Overflow shading is a timing match, not proof of cause — heavy rain and spills share a trigger. Times come from the water company’s event-duration monitor (site status only; no discharge volume is published).

Where it is

Nearest river gauge
Bognor (Aldingbourne Rife) · 5.0 km
Nearest rain gauge
Southern Water's own name for it
West Park Bognor Regis CEO - 108160
Site reference
SWS00077 · permit A00790
Coordinates
50.75568, -0.69470

Tell me when this overflow discharges

One message when the company's monitor reports a new discharge here. At most one every 6 hours.

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Live status: © Southern Water storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Annual spill figures: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0. Spill-event history: Southern Water's Rivers and Seas Watch release history (riversandseaswatch.southernwater.co.uk), © Southern Water. Shown by FloodRadar: only releases Southern Water marks Genuine and that have ended; those it marks Not Genuine or still has under review are left out. Discharges marked "via Top of the Poops", come from Top of the Poops' record of the same company feed, used under CC BY-SA 4.0: the feed's own start and end times as its pages print them, not their derived hours. Times are shown in UK local time. FloodRadar republishes the monitor's status and the EA's figures; it does not measure discharges itself.