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Polluted by sewage 163 times in 2024 lasting 862 hours
So far this year (as of May 29, 2025, 1:15 AM) there has been 105 hours of sewage overflows
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Faversham and Mid Kent, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Faversham and Mid Kent in 2024. 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 all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Water | River Len | LEEDS S.T.W. | 28 | 351 | 99.8 |
| Southern Water | Freshwater River | BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION | 43 | 238 | 99.9 |
| Southern Water | Freshwater River | BOARLEY LANE PUMPING STATION | 19 | 95 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Faversham Creek | FAVERSHAM ABBEY FIELD S.T.W. | 7 | 70 | 99.9 |
| Southern Water | Faversham Creek | COURT STREET FAVERSHAM CSO | 32 | 24 | 99.1 |
| Southern Water | River Len | SPOT LANE BEARSTED CEO | 3 | 22 | 63.4 |
| Southern Water | River Len | BEARSTED WASTEWATER P S | 11 | 19 | 100 |
| Southern Water | River Len | HARRIETSHAM WWTW | 2 | 16 | 98 |
| Southern Water | Faversham Creek | ABBEY ROAD CSO | 7 | 10 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Great Stour | LENHAM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS | 1 | 9 | 76.6 |
| Southern Water | Faversham Creek | ABBEYFIELDS COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW | 8 | 3 | 100 |
| Southern Water | River Len | OXFORD ROAD SHEPWAY CSO | 1 | 0 | 62.1 |
| Southern Water | Faversham Creek | CYPRUS RD/WHITSTABLE RD CSO | 1 | 0 | 87.8 |
| Southern Water | Cooksstream | GORDON SQUARE SPS | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Southern Water | River Len | DERINGWOOD DRIVE MAIDSTONE CEO | 0 | 0 | 99.8 |
| Southern Water | Faversham Creek | NORTH LANE FAVERSHAM CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Faversham Creek | HAZEBROUCK ROAD FAVERSHAM WWPS | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Southern Water | Frognal Drain | TEYNHAM S.T.W. | 0 | 0 | 98.4 |
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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