Faversham and Mid Kent was polluted by sewage 286 times in 2023
lasting 1,659 hours

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Totals for Faversham and Mid Kent in 2023

14 Sites polluted by Southern Water

286 sewage dumps
1,659 h duration

That's 2.3 months. 5.5 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Faversham and Mid Kent

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Faversham and Mid Kent 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 0 of the total 20 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Southern Water	Freshwater River	HEADCORN WASTE WATER STATION	49	563	100
Southern Water	River Len	SPOT LANE BEARSTED CEO	30	332	83.6
Southern Water	River Len	LEEDS S.T.W.	32	263	100
Southern Water	River Beult	ULCOMBE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	28	211	99.2
Southern Water	Freshwater River	BOUGHTON PUMPING STATION	43	181	100
Southern Water	Freshwater River	BOARLEY LANE PUMPING STATION	13	32	99.9
Southern Water	Faversham Creek	COURT STREET FAVERSHAM CSO	31	20	100
Southern Water	Faversham Creek	ABBEY ROAD CSO	17	15	100
Southern Water	River Len	BEARSTED WASTEWATER P S	11	10	99.5
Southern Water	Faversham Creek	FAVERSHAM ABBEY FIELD S.T.W.	4	8	100
Southern Water	Great Stour	LENHAM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS	2	8	100
Southern Water	Faversham Creek	ABBEYFIELDS COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	16	6	100
Southern Water	Faversham Creek	CYPRUS RD/WHITSTABLE RD CSO	9	4	100
Southern Water	River Len	OXFORD ROAD SHEPWAY CSO	1	0	100
Southern Water	River Len	HARRIETSHAM WWTW	0	0	99.1
Southern Water	Faversham Creek	HAZEBROUCK ROAD FAVERSHAM WWPS	0	0	100
Southern Water	Faversham Creek	NORTH LANE FAVERSHAM CSO	0	0	100
Southern Water	River Beult	SUTTON VALENCE WWTW	0	0	99.8
Southern Water	River Len	DERINGWOOD DRIVE MAIDSTONE CEO	0	0	99.9
Southern Water	Cooksstream	GORDON SQUARE SPS	0	0	99.9

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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