Ashford was polluted by sewage 422 times in 2024
lasting 4,284 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Ashford in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:15 PM) there has been 566 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Ashford in 2024
22 Sites polluted by Southern Water
422 sewage dumps
4,284 h duration
That's 5.95 months. On average 1.2 times a day
Change Over Time
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Daily Data
We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Ashford, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Ashford in 2024. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 1 of the total 24 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Freshwater River Great Stour BALL LANE- KENNINGTON CSO 47 822 68.3
Southern Water Mill Stream MILL LANE KENNINGTON CEO 53 747 99.4
Southern Water East Stour River SELLINDGE WWTW 48 646 99.9
Southern Water Great Stour ASHFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 45 637 98.4
Southern Water Freshwater River SOUTH ASHFORD P.S. 51 435 99.9
Southern Water East Stour WOTTON ROAD CSO 35 195 99.4
Southern Water Great Stour CHURCHFIELD WAY WYE CEO 19 189 99.9
Southern Water River Stour FIELD END GARDEN ASHFORD CSO 17 189 83.6
Southern Water East Stour KINGSNORTH ROAD, ASHFORD CSO 27 137 100
Southern Water Freshwater River BYBROOK PUMPING STATION 9 86 99.9
Southern Water East Stour MARTYRS FIELD CSO 9 76 99.8
Southern Water Great Stour CHRISTCHURCH ROAD ASFORD CSO 24 38 99.8
Southern Water Great Stour QUEENS ROAD CSO (R/O HEDLEYS) 9 34 98
Southern Water East Stour CANTERBURY ROAD SOUTH WILLESBOROUGH 6 12 100
Southern Water East Stour River BOG FARM BRABOURNE LEES CEO 4 7 99.8
Southern Water Great Stour River BLACKWALL ROAD 4 6 99.9
Southern Water Great Stour STONEBRIDGE ROAD WWPS 2 5 99.9
Southern Water East Stour River BREADLANDS ROAD ASHFORD CSO 6 4 48.1
Southern Water Bockhanger Dyke BOCKHANGER CEO 1 3 100
Southern Water Great Stour DOVER PLACE CSO, ASHFORD, KENT 3 3 79.4
Southern Water Great Stour GODINTON ROAD ASHFORD CSO 2 2 98.9
Southern Water River Great Stour SOMERSET ROAD ASHFORD CSO 1 0 79.2
Southern Water Freshwater River 68 QUEENS ROAD CSO 0 0 0
Southern Water Great Stour VICTORIA ROAD ASHFORD CSO 0 0 100

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. This uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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