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Polluted by sewage 108 times in 2025 lasting 202 hours
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Faversham and Mid Kent in 2025. 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 18 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Water | Freshwater River | BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION | 31 | 100 | 99.9 |
| Southern Water | Faversham Creek | FAVERSHAM ABBEY FIELD S.T.W. | 5 | 25 | 94.1 |
| Southern Water | Faversham Creek | COURT STREET FAVERSHAM CSO | 25 | 19 | 78.9 |
| Southern Water | River Len | BEARSTED WASTEWATER P S | 9 | 13 | 99.6 |
| Southern Water | Faversham Creek | ABBEY ROAD CSO | 7 | 12 | 88.2 |
| Southern Water | River Len | HARRIETSHAM WWTW | 1 | 9 | 95.6 |
| Southern Water | Faversham Creek | ABBEYFIELDS COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 12 | 5 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Freshwater River | BOARLEY LANE PUMPING STATION | 5 | 5 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Faversham Creek | CYPRUS RD/WHITSTABLE RD CSO | 9 | 4 | 92 |
| Southern Water | River Len | DERINGWOOD DRIVE MAIDSTONE CEO | 1 | 4 | 100 |
| Southern Water | River Len | OXFORD ROAD SHEPWAY CSO | 1 | 0 | 99.4 |
| Southern Water | River Len | LEEDS S.T.W. | 1 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Southern Water | Faversham Creek | NORTH LANE FAVERSHAM CSO | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Cooksstream | GORDON SQUARE SPS | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Faversham Creek | HAZEBROUCK ROAD FAVERSHAM WWPS | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Great Stour | LENHAM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS | 0 | 0 | 48.6 |
| Southern Water | River Len | SPOT LANE BEARSTED CEO | 0 | 0 | 95.5 |
| Southern Water | Frognal Drain | TEYNHAM S.T.W. | 0 | 0 | 99.3 |
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.
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