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# Surfers Against Sewage protest: Kingston Beach
- URL: https://walkingwithdaddy.com/surfers-against-sewage-protest-kingston-beach/
- Published: 2024-01-15T14:22:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-10T22:32:00.000Z
- Description: People in Shoreham and Southwick have had enough. Southern Water can't keep throwing sewage into our seas.
- Author: Adam
- Tags: beach life, sustainable living, campaigning

It has not been a good month in our neck of the woods. Southern Water has exceeded itself with the amount of sewage it has been chucking into our seas. In fact, between Christmas and now, they've spent *300 hours* putting sewage direct into the sea. 

200 hours of that were from a single overflow:

> [ View this post on Instagram ](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C14i%5FzzKLw%5F/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fembed&utm%5Fcampaign=loading)
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> [A post shared by Surfers Against Sewage (@surfersagainstsewage)](https://www.instagram.com/reel/C14i%5FzzKLw%5F/?utm%5Fsource=ig%5Fembed&utm%5Fcampaign=loading)

Not surprisingly, many of us have had enough. I was too ill to go — but my wife and daughters headed down to Kingston Beach to join in the [Surfers Against Sewage](https://www.sas.org.uk/?ref=walkingwithdaddy.com) protest there, organised by [our local group](https://www.facebook.com/sasinbrighton/). And here are some photos she took:

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And here's a video news report on the protest:

Shoreham and its neighbours have *always* been sea-focused communities. But the sheer incompetence of Southern Water is forcing us all out of the sea. 

This can't go on. 

### Other coverage:

[Shoreham campaigners gather on beach in sewage protestSurfers Against Sewage says it wants “Southern Water to end dumping sewage in our waters”.![](https://static.files.bbci.co.uk/core/website/assets/static/icons/windows-phone/news/windows-phone-icon-270x270.23502b4459eb7a6ab2ab.png)BBC NewsRosie BluntBBC News, South East![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/branded_news/a348/live/a6456d50-b236-11ee-8ad1-0943f3b84718.jpg)](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0xylvdwxqyo?cmdf=southern+water+sewage+300+hours+kingston+beach&ref=walkingwithdaddy.com)

[Protesters in gas masks call for end to ‘appalling’ sewage dumping at swimming siteD![](https://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/17401553/)The ArgusPatrick Barlow![](https://www.theargus.co.uk/resources/images/17642331/?type=og-image)](https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/24047668.southern-water-slammed-surfers-sewage-southwick-protest/?cmdf=southern+water+sewage+300+hours+kingston+beach&ref=walkingwithdaddy.com)

[PHOTOS: Answers Demanded From Southern Water As Campaigners Gather In WorthingAdur & Worthing Councils are demanding answers from Southern Water following a leak by the company that has spilled waste into the sea.![](https://mmo.aiircdn.com/386/600ef9a03c543.jpg)More Radio![](https://mmo.aiircdn.com/386/6149975d4b0b8.jpg)](https://www.moreradio.online/news/sussex-news/answers-demanded-following-waste-leak-by-southern-water/?i=kingston-beach-surfers-against-sewage-21&cmdf=southern+water+sewage+300+hours+kingston+beach&ref=walkingwithdaddy.com)