Faversham and Mid Kent

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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Live data for Faversham and Mid Kent in 2026

So far this year (as of 25 Oct 2026, 16:30) there has been 553 hours of sewage overflows, from 26 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Sewage without rain in Faversham and Mid Kent

On 1 occasion since December 2024, no rain fell anywhere in Faversham and Mid Kent for days — and its CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s discharged anyway.

26 Aug 2026 1 at once · 0h

Totals for Faversham and Mid Kent in 2025

13 Sites polluted by Southern Water
108 sewage dumps
202 hours duration
Sewage pollution map of Faversham and Mid Kent
Sewage pollution map of Faversham and Mid Kent: 108 spills in 2025, lasting 202 hours, by Southern Water
That's 1.2 weeks. 2.1 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here 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

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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