Sewage Pollution Alert affecting Seaford 5th September

Southern Water have just confirmed the release 1128658 from CLIFF END SEAFORD that started at 12:29 on 05/09/2024 and ended at 13:13 on 05/09/2024, with a duration of 44 mins was genuine and would have started to impact the bathing water at 12:29 on 05/09/2024.  

Southern Water allow 72 hours to pass after a storm overflow release ends before they update the bathing water status to ‘non-impacted’. They say this is a conservative timeframe to allow any pathogens from storm overflows to disappear.