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Canterbury was polluted by sewage 273 times in 2023
lasting 1,282 hours

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✔ means we have experimental daily data since 2023

Totals for Canterbury in 2023

7 Sites polluted by Southern Water

273 sewage dumps
1,282 h duration

That's 1.78 months. 5.2 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Canterbury

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Canterbury in 2023. 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 0 of the total 9 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Southern Water	North Sea	SWALECLIFFE WWTW	129	961	99.95
Southern Water	Great Stour	HOSPITAL FARM HARBLEDOWN CEO	21	96	99.9
Southern Water	River Great Stour	CANTERBURY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WKS	15	92	99.9
Southern Water	Tankerton Bay	GORRELL OUTFALL VIA DIAMOND RD CSO	34	81	100
Southern Water	Controlled Sea	TANKERTON BAY OUTFALL	57	34	99.87
Southern Water	Freshwater River	CHESTFIELD STORM TANKS	2	10	99.6
Southern Water	Great Stour	WINCHEAP CANTERBURY CSO	15	5	64.7
Southern Water	Freshwater River	BROOK ROAD WASTEWATER PUMPING	0	0	99.9
Southern Water	Great Stour River	KINGSMEAD ROAD CANTERBURY CSO	0	0	99.8

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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