Gillingham and Rainham was polluted by sewage 521 times in 2023
lasting 1,121 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Gillingham and Rainham in 2023

22 Sites polluted by Southern Water

521 sewage dumps
1,121 h duration

That's 1.56 months. On average 1.4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Gillingham and Rainham

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Gillingham and Rainham 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 1 of the total 27 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Southern Water	Medway Estaury	MOTNEY HILL WWTW	82	327	100
Southern Water	River Medway	FERNDALE ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO	22	300	65.6
Southern Water	River Medway	THE STRAND GILLINGHAM CEO	61	95	100
Southern Water	River Medway	LOWER TWYDALL LANE GILLINGHAM CSO	28	95	98.1
Southern Water	Otterham Creek	BROOMCROFT ROAD, GILLINGHAM CSO	47	54	60.9
Southern Water	River Medway	HAWTHORNE AVENUE GILLINGHAM CSO	49	48	98.9
Southern Water	Otterham Creek	MAIDSTONE ROAD RAINHAM CSO	31	33	99.8
Southern Water	River Medway	WILLIAM STREET RAINHAM CSO	29	31	100
Southern Water	Otterham Creek	ORCHARD STREET GILLINGHAM CSO	30	26	100
Southern Water	Otterham Creek	STATION ROAD RAINHAM CSO	18	24	99.8
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	PUMP LANE GILLINGHAM TANK CSO	20	21	100
Southern Water	River Medway	BERENGRAVE/CHALKY BK GILLINGHAM CS0	19	18	82.6
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	WOODCHURCH CRESCENT GILLINGHAM CSO	26	11	100
Southern Water	Otterham Creek	WOODSIDE WIGMORE CSO	19	8	99.9
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	LOWER RAINHAM ROAD LOWER RAINHAM PS	2	6	99.9
Southern Water	Saline Estuary	CSO BEECHINGS WAY NO 3	18	5	100
Southern Water	Saline Estuary	MEDWAY ROAD CSO	1	3	100
Southern Water	Gillingham Reach/ Medway Est	SAUNDERS STREET GILLINGHAM CSO	5	2	99.8
Southern Water	River Medway	HERNE ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO	7	1	100
Southern Water	River Medway	HIGH STREET RAINHAM CSO	1	1	68.9
Southern Water	Gillingham Reach/ Medway Est	ST MARYS ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO	5	0	97.5
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	PUMP LANE GILLINGHAM NO.2 CSO	1	0	18.8
Southern Water	Otterham Creek	CHALKY BANK ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO	0	0	99.9
Southern Water	River Medway	PLANTATION ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO	0	0	100
Southern Water	Medway Estuary	SAUNDERS STREET GILLINGHAM CSO	0	0	100
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	PUMP LANE GILLINGHAM NO.1 CSO	0	0	0
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	DIAL ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO	0	0	46.5

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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