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Polluted by sewage 422 times in 2024 lasting 4,284 hours
Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more
So far this year (as of Apr 23, 2025, 5:45 AM) there has been 573 hours of sewage overflows
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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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Donate NowHere 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 2 of the total 24 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 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 |
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.
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