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Folkestone and Hythe - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 832 hours in 2025

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Folkestone and Hythe for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 301 hours
Feb - 120 hours
Mar - 12 hours
Apr - 39 hours
May - 0 hours
Jun - 27 hours
Jul - 65 hours
Aug - 2 hours
Sept - 83 hours
Oct - 54 hours
Nov - 82 hours
Dec - 44 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Southern Water RANGE ROAD HYTHE K LONG CSO - 116048 English Channel 61 527 h 9m -
Southern Water THE STADE FOLKESTONE CEO - 108909 English Channel 30 180 h 38m -
Southern Water NEW ROMNEY SSO - 115759 Littlestone Sewer 3 39 h 47m -
Southern Water RANGE ROAD HYTHE K LONG CSO - 116048 English Channel 11 39 h 28m -
Southern Water THE STADE FOLKESTONE CEO - 108909 English Channel 6 28 h 31m -
Southern Water RANGE ROAD HYTHE K SHORT CSO - 116112 English Channel 8 9 h 37m -
Southern Water FOLKESTONE JUNCTION CSO - 108617 English Channel 3 3 h 30m -
Southern Water GRANVILLE PARADE SANDGATE CEO - 108642 Controlled Sea 1 2 h 18m -
Southern Water RANGE ROAD HYTHE K SHORT CSO - 116112 English Channel 1 0 h 30m -
Southern Water Unknown Unknown 1 0 h 29m -
Southern Water NEW ROMNEY SSO - 115759 Littlestone Sewer 0 0 h -
Southern Water GRANVILLE PARADE SANDGATE CEO - 108642 Controlled Sea 0 0 h -
Southern Water FOLKESTONE JUNCTION CSO - 108617 English Channel 0 0 h -

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

Uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.