Chatham and Aylesford polluted by sewage 81 times in 2022 - lasting 81 hours

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Totals for Chatham and Aylesford in 2022
12 Sites polluted by Southern Water
81 sewage dumps
81 h duration
That's 3.38 days. 1.6 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Chatham and Aylesford in 2022. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water River Medway Estuary SECOND AVENUE NO 3 CHATHAM CSO 31 26 89.2
Southern Water River Medway Estuary HAM HILL S.T.W. 8 25 99.3
Southern Water River Medway Estuary SECOND AVENUE NO 2 CSO 16 13 76.2
Southern Water Medway Estuary HALL ROAD AYLESFORD CSO 1 6 100
Southern Water River Medway Estuary SECOND AVE CHATHAM NO1 CSO 6 3 77.4
Southern Water River Medway Estuary MAGPIE HALL ROAD CHATHAM OUTSIDE 33 6 2 100
Southern Water River Medway RIDGEWAY BANKS CHATHAM CSO 5 1 69.7
Southern Water River Medway Estuary STURLA ROAD CHATHAM CSO 4 0 89.1
Southern Water River Medway DITTON WWTW 1 0 100
Southern Water River Medway Estuary GROVE ROAD CHATHAM O/S 77 CSO 1 0 86.6
Southern Water Medway Estuary GROVE ROAD CHATHAM OUTSIDE 1 CSO 1 0 100
Southern Water River Medway Estuary WALDERSLADE ROAD CHATHAM 149 CSO 1 0 82.5
Southern Water River Medway Estuary ORDNANCE TERRACE CHATHAM CSO 0 0 63.5
Southern Water Tidal Estuary Of River Medway CONSTITUTION HILL CHATHAM CSO 0 0 0
Southern Water River Medway Estuary CSO HOPWELL DRIVE (CHATHAM) 0 0 22.4
Southern Water River Medway Estuary RECTORY CLOSE WOULDHAM WWPS 0 0 99.9
Southern Water River Medway MAIDA ROAD CHATHAM CSO 0 0 13.1
Southern Water River Medway Estuary CHATHAM HILL CHATHAM OUTSIDE 10 CSO 0 0 100
Southern Water River Medway Estuary MELBOURNE ROAD CHATHAM CSO 0 0 99.2
Southern Water River Medway Estuary MAGPIE HALL ROAD OUTSIDE 60 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

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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