Folkestone and Hythe

Polluted by sewage 168 times in 2025 lasting 838 hours

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Live data for Folkestone and Hythe in 2026

So far this year (as of 3 Nov 2026, 02:00) there has been 1,060 hours of sewage overflows, from 14 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Folkestone and Hythe in 2025

4 Sites polluted by Southern Water

168 sewage dumps

838 hours duration

Sewage pollution map of Folkestone and Hythe — Sewage pollution map of Folkestone and Hythe: 168 spills in 2025, lasting 838 hours, by Southern Water

That's 1.16 months. 3.2 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Folkestone and Hythe 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Southern Water	English Channel	WEST HYTHE WWTW	104	555	99.8
Southern Water	English Channel	DOVER AND FOLKESTONE WASTE WATER	61	253	99.67
Southern Water	Littlestone Sewer	NEW ROMNEY WWTW	2	27	100
Southern Water	Controlled Sea	SANDGATE PUMPING STATION	1	1	100
Southern Water	Queens Road Ditch	QUEENS ROAD P.S.	0	0	100
Southern Water	Strait Of Dover	SANDGATE ROAD SEABROOK WPS	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. 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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