Chatham and Aylesford was polluted by sewage 186 times in 2023
lasting 887 hours

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Totals for Chatham and Aylesford in 2023
15 Sites polluted by Southern Water
186 sewage dumps
887 h duration
That's 1.23 months. 3.6 times a week, on average
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Chatham and Aylesford 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 20 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 River Medway Estuary STURLA ROAD CHATHAM CSO 57 726 100
Southern Water River Medway Estuary HAM HILL S.T.W. 14 53 99.9
Southern Water River Medway Estuary SECOND AVENUE NO 2 CSO 35 43 74.4
Southern Water River Medway Estuary SECOND AVENUE NO 3 CHATHAM CSO 28 25 73.8
Southern Water Tidal Estuary Of River Medway CONSTITUTION HILL CHATHAM CSO 21 24 90
Southern Water River Medway RIDGEWAY BANKS CHATHAM CSO 7 3 59.4
Southern Water River Medway Estuary MAGPIE HALL ROAD CHATHAM OUTSIDE 33 11 2 56
Southern Water River Medway Estuary SECOND AVE CHATHAM NO1 CSO 2 2 55
Southern Water River Medway DITTON WWTW 1 1 96.3
Southern Water River Medway MAIDA ROAD CHATHAM CSO 3 1 18.7
Southern Water River Medway Estuary CSO HOPWELL DRIVE (CHATHAM) 2 0 95.2
Southern Water River Medway Estuary RECTORY CLOSE WOULDHAM WWPS 1 0 99.9
Southern Water River Medway Estuary ORDNANCE TERRACE CHATHAM CSO 2 0 100
Southern Water Medway Estuary HALL ROAD AYLESFORD CSO 1 0 100
Southern Water River Medway Estuary WALDERSLADE ROAD CHATHAM 149 CSO 1 0 98.4
Southern Water River Medway Estuary MELBOURNE ROAD CHATHAM CSO 0 0 64.1
Southern Water River Medway Estuary GROVE ROAD CHATHAM O/S 77 CSO 0 0 70
Southern Water River Medway Estuary CHATHAM HILL CHATHAM OUTSIDE 10 CSO 0 0 100
Southern Water River Medway Estuary MAGPIE HALL ROAD OUTSIDE 60 CSO 0 0 100
Southern Water Medway Estuary GROVE ROAD CHATHAM OUTSIDE 1 CSO 0 0 66.1

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.

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