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East Thanet - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 593 hours in 2025

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in East Thanet for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 7 hours
Feb - 0 hours
Mar - 0 hours
Apr - 0 hours
May - 0 hours
Jun - 11 hours
Jul - 11 hours
Aug - 0 hours
Sept - 0 hours
Oct - 26 hours
Nov - 288 hours
Dec - 249 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Southern Water SPENCER SQUARE RAMSGATE CSO - 116124 Controlled Sea 27 517 h 40m -
Southern Water BROADSTAIRS CEO - 111905 English Channel 7 32 h 59m -
Southern Water SPENCER SQUARE RAMSGATE CSO - 116124 Controlled Sea 2 19 h 47m -
Southern Water MARGATE LONG CEO - 116100 North Sea 3 6 h 1m -
Southern Water Unknown Unknown 1 5 h 26m -
Southern Water MARGATE SHORT CEO - 116101 North Sea 3 4 h 47m -
Southern Water THANET ROAD RAMSGATE CSO - 108650 North Sea 2 4 h 8m -
Southern Water BROADSTAIRS PS SCREENED CEO - 116106 English Channel 3 3 h -
Southern Water FOADS LANE RAMSGATE CEO - 108911 Controlled Sea 0 0 h -
Southern Water BROADSTAIRS WORKS UNSCREENED CEO - 116072 English Channel 0 0 h -
Southern Water BROADSTAIRS PS SCREENED CEO - 116106 English Channel 0 0 h -
Southern Water THANET ROAD RAMSGATE CSO - 108650 North Sea 0 0 h -
Southern Water BROADSTAIRS CEO - 111905 English Channel 0 0 h -
Southern Water MARGATE SHORT CEO - 116101 North Sea 0 0 h -
Southern Water MARGATE LONG CEO - 116100 North Sea 0 0 h -
Southern Water FOADS HILL CLIFFS END CSO - 107353 Pegwell Bay, English Channel 0 0 h -

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. Live sewage data from Stream Water API

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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