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Gillingham and Rainham

Polluted by sewage 348 times in 2025 lasting 666 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Gillingham and Rainham in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,167 hours of sewage overflows, from 60 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Gillingham and Rainham in 2025

21 Sites polluted by Southern Water
348 sewage dumps
666 hours duration
That's 3.96 weeks. 6.7 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Gillingham and Rainham 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 1 of the total 27 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Medway Estaury MOTNEY HILL WWTW 67 286 98.5
Southern Water River Medway THE STRAND GILLINGHAM CEO 34 78 97.6
Southern Water River Medway BERENGRAVE/CHALKY BK GILLINGHAM CS0 18 45 95.2
Southern Water River Medway Estuary PUMP LANE GILLINGHAM TANK CSO 15 42 100
Southern Water Otterham Creek MAIDSTONE ROAD RAINHAM CSO 26 32 99.9
Southern Water Otterham Creek STATION ROAD RAINHAM CSO 30 31 100
Southern Water River Medway WILLIAM STREET RAINHAM CSO 21 29 100
Southern Water River Medway HAWTHORNE AVENUE GILLINGHAM CSO 22 24 85.6
Southern Water Medway Estuary SAUNDERS STREET GILLINGHAM CSO 5 16 100
Southern Water Saline Estuary CSO BEECHINGS WAY NO 3 20 16 100
Southern Water Otterham Creek ORCHARD STREET GILLINGHAM CSO 9 15 98.8
Southern Water Otterham Creek BROOMCROFT ROAD, GILLINGHAM CSO 16 13 54.55
Southern Water Otterham Creek WOODSIDE WIGMORE CSO 15 11 100
Southern Water River Medway Estuary WOODCHURCH CRESCENT GILLINGHAM CSO 16 9 100
Southern Water River Medway LOWER TWYDALL LANE GILLINGHAM CSO 15 5 100
Southern Water River Medway Estuary LOWER RAINHAM ROAD LOWER RAINHAM PS 2 1 100
Southern Water Gillingham Reach/ Medway Est ST MARYS ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 4 1 100
Southern Water River Medway HERNE ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 7 1 100
Southern Water Gillingham Reach/ Medway Est SAUNDERS STREET GILLINGHAM CSO 2 0 99.9
Southern Water River Medway FERNDALE ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 3 0 99.6
Southern Water River Medway Estuary PUMP LANE GILLINGHAM NO.1 CSO 1 0 50.3
Southern Water Otterham Creek CHALKY BANK ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 0 0 99.8
Southern Water River Medway Estuary DIAL ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 0 0 49.9
Southern Water River Medway HIGH STREET RAINHAM CSO 0 0 75.8
Southern Water Saline Estuary MEDWAY ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Southern Water River Medway PLANTATION ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 0 0 96.8
Southern Water River Medway Estuary PUMP LANE GILLINGHAM NO.2 CSO 0 0 99.6

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.

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