Gillingham and Rainham - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 8,911 hours in 2025 - That's 1.03 years , monitoring offline 92 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Gillingham and Rainham 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.

Totals for Gillingham and Rainham in 2025

Sewage8,911 hours
Monitoring offline92 hours
Potential pollution0 hours
Storm overflows60

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Daily Data

Jan - 404 hours
Feb - 491 hours
Mar - 1,199 hours
Apr - 1,190 hours
May - 748 hours
Jun - 784 hours , 92 offline
Jul - 906 hours
Aug - 569 hours
Sept - 295 hours
Oct - 711 hours
Nov - 691 hours
Dec - 919 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Southern Water PLANTATION ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO - 101453 River Medway 273 6,278h 32m -
Southern Water ORCHARD STREET GILLINGHAM CSO - 108694 Otterham Creek 96 1,233h 45m -
Southern Water PLANTATION ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO - 101453 River Medway 28 595h 46m -
Southern Water HAZELDENE LANE NEWICK CEO - 108246 Freshwater River 22 151h 59m -
Southern Water HAZELDENE LANE NEWICK CEO - 108246 Freshwater River 13 96h 8m -
Southern Water BERENGRAVE CHALKY BANK ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO - 109038 River Medway 16 67h 25m -
Southern Water THE STRAND GILLINGHAM CEO - 108740 River Medway 27 66h 17m -
Southern Water MOTNEY HILL NO.1 SSO - 115421 Medway Estaury 10 59h 54m -
Southern Water PUMP LANE GILLINGHAM TANK CSO - 102333 River Medway Estuary 16 44h 45m -
Southern Water LOWER RAINHAM ROAD LOWER RAINHAM CEO - 102791 River Medway Estuary 3 37h 33m -
Southern Water STATION ROAD RAINHAM CSO - 108738 Otterham Creek 28 34h 24m -
Southern Water HAWTHORNE AVENUE GILLINGHAM CSO - 102229 River Medway 19 33h 25m -
Southern Water MOTNEY HILL NO.2 SSO - 115456 Medway Estaury 5 32h 53m -
Southern Water MAIDSTONE ROAD RAINHAM CSO - 108676 Otterham Creek 20 31h 30m -
Southern Water ST MARYS ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO - 108735 Gillingham Reach/ Medway Est 3 19h 15m -
Southern Water SAUNDERS STREET GILLINGHAM CSO - 107454 Gillingham Reach/ Medway Est 2 19h 10m -
Southern Water FERNDALE ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO - 108635 River Medway 5 17h 14m -
Southern Water WOODSIDE WIGMORE CSO - 108761 Otterham Creek 11 14h 17m -
Southern Water BEECHINGS WAY GILLINGHAM NO 2 CSO - 101174 Medway Estuary 8 11h 47m -
Southern Water BEECHINGS WAY GILLINGHAM NO 4 CSO - 101998 Medway Estuary 11 9h 23m -
Southern Water BROOMCROFT ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO - 108593 Otterham Creek 7 8h 44m -
Southern Water BEECHINGS WAY GILLINGHAM NO 3 CSO - 100312 River Medway Estuary 6 8h 15m -
Southern Water ASQUITH ROAD WIGMORE CSO - 108577 Otterham Creek 5 8h 4m -
Southern Water WOODCHURCH CRESCENT GILLINGHAM CSO - 103116 River Medway Estuary 8 6h 49m -
Southern Water Unknown Unknown 4 6h 28m -
Southern Water THE STRAND GILLINGHAM CEO - 108740 River Medway 4 6h 21m -
Southern Water LOWER TWYDALL LANE GILLINGHAM CSO - 101648 River Medway 5 2h 42m -
Southern Water MAIDSTONE ROAD RAINHAM CSO - 108676 Otterham Creek 2 1h 40m -
Southern Water PUMP LANE GILLINGHAM TANK CSO - 102333 River Medway Estuary 1 1h 19m -
Southern Water Unknown Unknown 1 1h 17m -
Southern Water Unknown Unknown 1 0h 57m -
Southern Water BEECHINGS WAY GILLINGHAM NO 1 CSO - 101855 Medway Estuary 3 0h 52m -
Southern Water STATION ROAD RAINHAM CSO - 108738 Otterham Creek 1 0h 44m -
Southern Water BERENGRAVE CHALKY BANK ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO - 109038 River Medway 1 0h 40m -
Southern Water BEECHINGS WAY GILLINGHAM NO 4 CSO - 101998 Medway Estuary 1 0h 32m -
Southern Water COWSTEAD LANE GILLINGHAM CEO - 102357 Medway Estuary 2 0h 31m -
Southern Water GILLINGHAM ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO - 100080 Unknown 2 0h 22m 92 h
Southern Water PUMP LANE GILLINGHAM NO 1 CSO - 107446 River Medway Estuary 1 0h 2m -
Southern Water BEECHINGS WAY GILLINGHAM NO 1 CSO - 101855 Medway Estuary 0 0h -
Southern Water PIER ROAD GILLINGHAM NO.1 CSO - 111895 Medway Estuary 0 0h -
Southern Water LOWER RAINHAM ROAD LOWER RAINHAM CEO - 102791 River Medway Estuary 0 0h -
Southern Water HERNE ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO - 107632 River Medway 0 0h -
Southern Water ASQUITH ROAD WIGMORE CSO - 108577 Otterham Creek 0 0h -
Southern Water FERNDALE ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO - 108635 River Medway 0 0h -
Southern Water ORCHARD STREET GILLINGHAM CSO - 108694 Otterham Creek 0 0h -
Southern Water BEECHINGS WAY GILLINGHAM NO 2 CSO - 101174 Medway Estuary 0 0h -
Southern Water MOTNEY HILL NO.2 SSO - 115456 Medway Estaury 0 0h -
Southern Water BEECHINGS WAY GILLINGHAM NO 3 CSO - 100312 River Medway Estuary 0 0h -
Southern Water ST MARYS ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO - 108735 Gillingham Reach/ Medway Est 0 0h -
Southern Water LOWER TWYDALL LANE GILLINGHAM CSO - 101648 River Medway 0 0h -
Southern Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Southern Water GILLINGHAM ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO - 100080 Unknown 0 0h -
Southern Water HAWTHORNE AVENUE GILLINGHAM CSO - 102229 River Medway 0 0h -
Southern Water WOODCHURCH CRESCENT GILLINGHAM CSO - 103116 River Medway Estuary 0 0h -
Southern Water SAUNDERS STREET GILLINGHAM CSO - 107454 Gillingham Reach/ Medway Est 0 0h -
Southern Water MOTNEY HILL NO.1 SSO - 115421 Medway Estaury 0 0h -
Southern Water COWSTEAD LANE GILLINGHAM CEO - 102357 Medway Estuary 0 0h -
Southern Water WOODSIDE WIGMORE CSO - 108761 Otterham Creek 0 0h -
Southern Water BROOMCROFT ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO - 108593 Otterham Creek 0 0h -
Southern Water SEATON ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO - 103209 Unknown 0 0h -

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.

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.

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