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Herne Bay and Sandwich

Polluted by sewage 84 times in 2025 lasting 298 hours

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Live data for Herne Bay and Sandwich in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 321 hours of sewage overflows, from 28 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Herne Bay and Sandwich in 2025

12 Sites polluted by Southern Water
84 sewage dumps
298 hours duration
That's 1.77 weeks. 1.6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Herne Bay and Sandwich 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Hogwell Sewer HERNE BAY STW 11 110 97.5
Southern Water Tidal River Stour BULWARKS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 20 47 97.3
Southern Water Great Stour WESTBERE WWTW 7 45 97.6
Southern Water North Sea Via A Ditch GAINSBOROUGH DRIVE WWPS, HERNE BAY 9 32 74.4
Southern Water North Sea KINGS HALL WPS, HERNE BAY 8 26 90.7
Southern Water Great Stour River FORDWICH ROAD STURRY CEO 5 16 99.7
Southern Water Wingham River DAMBRIDGE WINGHAM WWTW 4 10 98.6
Southern Water Freshwater River LOOP STREET WASTEWATER PS 13 4 100
Southern Water Plenty Brook EDDINGTON LANE WPS 4 4 100
Southern Water Unnamed River Stour FOXBOROUGH CLOSE SETTLED STORM TANK 1 0 100
Southern Water Controlled Sea ST MILDRED'S BAY CSO 1 0 100
Southern Water Controlled Sea SEA VIEW TERRACE CSO 1 0 99.4
Southern Water Tidal River Stour MINSTER IOT WWTW 0 0 100

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.

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