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Herne Bay and Sandwich - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 6,131 hours in 2025 , potential overflows 8 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Herne Bay and Sandwich 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.

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Daily Data

Jan - 992 hours
Feb - 699 hours
Mar - 744 hours
Apr - 720 hours
May - 744 hours
Jun - 734 hours
Jul - 858 hours , 8 potential
Aug - 560 hours
Sept - 4 hours
Oct - 58 hours
Nov - 14 hours
Dec - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Southern Water Unknown Unknown 236 5,648 h 53m -
Southern Water WESTBERE SSO - 115802 Great Stour 17 228 h 53m -
Southern Water MAY STREET HERNE BAY SSO - 115418 Hogwell Sewer 11 115 h 50m 8 h
Southern Water THE BULWARK SANDWICH CEO - 107367 Tidal River Stour 17 37 h 7m -
Southern Water KINGS HALL HERNE BAY CEO - 108096 North Sea 6 34 h 16m -
Southern Water FORDWICH ROAD STURRY CEO - 111603 Great Stour River 10 32 h 42m -
Southern Water DAMBRIDGE WINGHAM SSO - 115797 Wingham River 4 25 h 49m -
Southern Water LOOP STREET SANDWICH CEO - 108672 Freshwater River 3 3 h 1m -
Southern Water GAINSBOROUGH DRIVE HERNE BAY CEO - 111725 North Sea Via A Ditch 2 2 h -
Southern Water EDDINGTON LANE HERNE BAY CSO - 108093 Plenty Brook 2 1 h 53m -
Southern Water ST MILDREDS BAY CSO - 107371 Controlled Sea 2 0 h 45m -
Southern Water WESTBERE SSO - 115802 Great Stour 1 0 h 17m -
Southern Water SEAVIEW TERRACE MARGATE CSO - 107416 Controlled Sea 1 0 h -
Southern Water FOXBOROUGH CLOSE WOODNESBOROUGH SSO - 115970 Unnamed River Stour 0 0 h -
Southern Water MINSTER IOT SSO - 115734 Tidal River Stour 0 0 h -
Southern Water ST MILDREDS BAY CSO - 107371 Controlled Sea 0 0 h -
Southern Water SEAVIEW TERRACE MARGATE CSO - 107416 Controlled Sea 0 0 h -
Southern Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Southern Water FOXBOROUGH CLOSE WOODNESBOROUGH SSO - 115970 Unnamed River Stour 0 0 h -
Southern Water DAMBRIDGE WINGHAM SSO - 115797 Wingham River 0 0 h -
Southern Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Southern Water KINGS HALL HERNE BAY CEO - 108096 North Sea 0 0 h -
Southern Water THE BULWARK SANDWICH CEO - 107367 Tidal River Stour 0 0 h -
Southern Water EDDINGTON LANE HERNE BAY CSO - 108093 Plenty Brook 0 0 h -
Southern Water MAY STREET HERNE BAY SSO - 115418 Hogwell Sewer 0 0 h -
Southern Water GAINSBOROUGH DRIVE HERNE BAY CEO - 111725 North Sea Via A Ditch 0 0 h -
Southern Water LOOP STREET SANDWICH CEO - 108672 Freshwater River 0 0 h -
Southern Water FORDWICH ROAD STURRY CEO - 111603 Great Stour River 0 0 h -

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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