{"id":220232,"date":"2025-10-23T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220232\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T12:16:07","slug":"patcham-residents-speak-out-after-raw-sewage-spills-out-of-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/220232\/","title":{"rendered":"Patcham residents speak out after &#8216;raw sewage&#8217; spills out of drain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/25561262.southern-water-urged-take-action-brighton-floods\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Torrential rain on Monday caused flooding in parts of East Sussex<\/a> and saw a drain in Patcham overflow, causing &#8220;raw sewage&#8221; to spill onto the street.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The drain, at the junction between Vale Avenue and Mackie Avenue opposite the Ladies Mile Pub, is near a site of recent repair work by Southern Water.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The drain in Patcham (Image: Emily Elliott)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The water company told The Argus the repair was to a manhole and to the road surface. The company\u2019s spokesman said this work was not designed to combat situations of hydraulic overload caused by intense rainfall.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An image of the flooded drain was posted on Facebook, with an anonymous resident saying: \u201cHuman waste is still pouring all over the road when it rains.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThis then goes down to the zebra crossing and across the junction to the big puddle that forms outside Cubit and West.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThis is a serious health issue, especially with the school just over the road.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Anthony Fernandez, 59, who works in a shop in Vale Avenue, which is adjacent to the road where raw sewage was spotted, said: \u201cRepairs are being done everywhere where it\u2019s not required. The whole road gets flooded and cars get stuck in a jam.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIt\u2019s been terrible for the last 12 years.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Anthony Fernandez (Image: Emily Elloitt)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Another resident, who wished to remain anonymous, said: \u201cI live in Patcham and I would be very upset about sewage coming up out of the system and into open areas where we have to walk and live.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  They added: \u201cWe are prone to flooding because of the underground streams in the area.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI think that the sewage system we have just can\u2019t cope with it all\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWith the torrential rain we had, it caused water to flood so many roads and in so many areas.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Southern Water\u2019s spokesman said: \u201cWe are sorry that intense rainfall in Patcham temporarily overloaded our network and led to a manhole flooding.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAny incident like this is unacceptable and we\u2019re continuing to search for the right long-term solutions in the area that will tackle this problem moving forward.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe are carrying out detailed surveys of the sewers to identify any problems and act on them.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Torrential rain on Monday caused flooding in parts of East Sussex and saw a drain in Patcham overflow,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-220232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}