Worst beaches for sewage in The City of Brighton and Hove
5 bathing waters ranked by the storm-overflow spills the Environment Agency links to them in 2025.
Spills in 2025
- 1 Rottingdean Beach 42 from 3 overflows -60% since 2024
- 2 Saltdean 42 from 3 overflows -45% since 2023
- 3 Hove 39 from 2 overflows -11% since 2023
- 4 Brighton Central 0 from 2 overflows
- 5 Brighton Kemptown 0 from 2 overflows
How this is counted
Each figure counts spills from the storm overflows the Environment Agency links to that bathing water in its annual Event Duration Monitoring return, so it follows the sewer network rather than a map radius. Spills only: the return's duration column is not reliable enough to publish.
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