Folkestone and Hythe was polluted by sewage 293 times in 2023
lasting 2,800 hours

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Totals for Folkestone and Hythe in 2023
5 Sites polluted by Southern Water
293 sewage dumps
2,800 h duration
That's 3.89 months. 5.6 times a week, on average
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Folkestone and Hythe 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 6 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 English Channel WEST HYTHE WWTW 132 1,169 99.5
Southern Water Littlestone Sewer NEW ROMNEY WWTW 43 835 99.9
Southern Water English Channel DOVER AND FOLKESTONE WASTE WATER 106 765 99.97
Southern Water Queens Road Ditch QUEENS ROAD P.S. 3 16 99.9
Southern Water Controlled Sea SANDGATE PUMPING STATION 9 12 100
Southern Water Strait Of Dover SANDGATE ROAD SEABROOK WPS 0 0 99.8

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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