Catsfield WwTW

Storm overflow run by Southern Water, discharging into Trib Of The River Pevensey.

Inlet storm overflow at sewage treatment works Bexhill and Battle constituency
Right now
Discharging now
Since on · 2 h 44 min so far.
Times are UK time. Company feed updated just now

"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
27spills
168 h discharging on 28 days · counted by us, not yet official
2025 official
33spills
123 h · −55% on 2024
Rank in Southern Water
#165
of 970 overflows by 2025 spills (1 = most)
Monitor in 2025
96.5% working
Long-term average 47.2 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 official figure is published next spring.

2021
32 spills · 123 hmonitor 96.0%
2022
35 spills · 225 hmonitor 97.2%
2023
72 spills · 419 hmonitor 98.8%
2024
74 spills · 743 hmonitor 98.5%
2025
33 spills · 123 hmonitor 96.5%
2026so far
27 spills · 168 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
Investigation
UWWTR investigation ongoing
Improvement work
No improvement action in reporting period
Monitored since
2019
Water body
Watermill Stream

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

68 discharge periods since 1 Jan 2025, 1 still open. 63 of them come from Southern Water's own event-duration-monitoring records (from its Rivers and Seas Watch service, Jan 2025 – Sep 2026); the live feed adds anything after that. The official annual count is the figure to quote.

Show 30 earlier (of 68)
StartedEndedDischarge time
38 min
1 h 28 min
13 h 52 min
9 h 48 min
4 h 6 min
1 h 54 min
1 d 5 h
51 min
1 h 2 min
6 h 29 min
7 h 39 min
20 h 0 min
52 min
3 h 48 min
17 h 48 min
16 h 18 min
22 h 43 min
27 min
7 min
5 h 38 min
3 h 44 min
28 min
7 h 43 min
4 min
4 h 45 min
23 min
21 min
3 h 2 min
22 min
7 h 28 min

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 97 raw blocks were merged into 68 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 : 10 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.

Show the last 10 states
SeenStatusSinceLatest discharge
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →
Discharging → no end yet
Not discharging →

Rain nearby last 30 days

Nearest live rain gauge: Rainfall gauge nr Battle, 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
Nearest rain gauge
Council area
Rother District
Southern Water's own name for it
Catsfield CSO - 115979
Site reference
SWS00148 · permit W00336
Coordinates
50.89434, 0.43884

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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The alert repeats the monitor's status: whether the overflow is discharging, not how much or why. It can only tell you about a discharge that starts after you turn it on.

Concerned about this overflow?

Report pollution you can see or smell to the regulator straight away; the company handles complaints about the overflow itself.

Write to the MP

The Environment Agency's return places this overflow in the Bexhill and Battle constituency. An MP can ask the company and the regulator questions on a constituent's behalf. These words carry the official figures; change them as you like.

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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. Constituency and council area from the EA's return: contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.