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Maidstone and Malling was polluted by sewage 44 times in 2023
lasting 174 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Maidstone and Malling in 2023
11 Sites polluted by Southern Water
44 sewage dumps
174 h duration
That's 7.25 days. 3.7 times a month, over the year
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Waterways in Maidstone and Malling

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Maidstone and Malling 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 14 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 Estuary CASTLE RD ALLINGTON PS+STORM TK CEO 22 162 99.15
Southern Water River Medway SOUTH STREET EAST BARMING CEO 1 5 99.1
Southern Water River Medway SANDLING LANE MAIDSTONE CSO 6 2 100
Southern Water River Medway DITTON WWTW 1 1 96.3
Southern Water River Len ALBION PLACE MAIDSTONE CSO 2 0 99.5
Southern Water River Len PADSOLE LANE MAIDSTONE CSO 6 0 78.5
Southern Water River Medway KNIGHTRIDER STREET CSO 1 0 94.7
Southern Water River Len KING STREET MAIDSTONE CSO 2 0 68.4
Southern Water River Medway BARKER ROAD MAIDSTONE CSO 1 0 99
Southern Water Medway Estuary HALL ROAD AYLESFORD CSO 1 0 100
Southern Water River Len LOWER STONE STREET MAIDSTONE CSO 1 0 98.5
Southern Water River Medway BOXLEY ROAD MAIDSTONE CSO 0 0 75
Southern Water River Medway WESTREE PLACE MAIDSTONE CSO 0 0 0
Southern Water River Medway TOVIL WHARF WASTEWATER PS 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.

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