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Chatham and Aylesford was polluted by sewage 184 times in 2023
lasting 885 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Chatham and Aylesford in 2023

13 Sites polluted by Southern Water

184 sewage dumps
885 h duration

That's 1.23 months. 3.5 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Chatham and Aylesford

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 1 of the total 19 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	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	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	River Medway Estuary	WALDERSLADE ROAD CHATHAM 149 CSO	1	0	98.4
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	CHATHAM HILL CHATHAM OUTSIDE 10 CSO	0	0	100
Southern Water	River Medway	CONCORD AVENUE CHATHAM CSO	0	0	0
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	GROVE ROAD CHATHAM O/S 77 CSO	0	0	70
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	MELBOURNE ROAD CHATHAM CSO	0	0	64.1
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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