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Herne Bay and Sandwich was polluted by sewage 176 times in 2023
lasting 1,323 hours

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Totals for Herne Bay and Sandwich in 2023

9 Sites polluted by Southern Water

176 sewage dumps
1,323 h duration

That's 1.84 months. 3.4 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Herne Bay and Sandwich

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Herne Bay and Sandwich 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 0 of the total 13 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Southern Water	Great Stour	WESTBERE WWTW	49	602	100
Southern Water	Hogwell Sewer	HERNE BAY STW	31	347	99.6
Southern Water	Great Stour River	FORDWICH ROAD STURRY CEO	22	178	99.8
Southern Water	Tidal River Stour	BULWARKS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	21	91	99.8
Southern Water	North Sea	KINGS HALL WPS, HERNE BAY	15	40	100
Southern Water	Wingham River	DAMBRIDGE WINGHAM WWTW	5	33	99.3
Southern Water	North Sea Via A Ditch	GAINSBOROUGH DRIVE WWPS, HERNE BAY	13	21	94.1
Southern Water	Plenty Brook	EDDINGTON LANE WPS	12	6	99.9
Southern Water	Freshwater River	LOOP STREET WASTEWATER PS	8	2	64.4
Southern Water	Controlled Sea	ST MILDRED'S BAY CSO	0	0	99.9
Southern Water	Controlled Sea	SEA VIEW TERRACE CSO	0	0	99.2
Southern Water	Unnamed River Stour	FOXBOROUGH CLOSE SETTLED STORM TANK	0	0	99.9
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. This 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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