Maidstone and The Weald was polluted by sewage 440 times in 2023
lasting 4,702 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Maidstone and The Weald in 2023

18 Sites polluted by Southern Water

440 sewage dumps
4,702 h duration

That's 6.53 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Maidstone and The Weald

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Maidstone and The Weald 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 22 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	Crane Brook	CRANBROOK WWTW	105	1,256	100
Southern Water	Hammer Stream	SISSINGHURST WWTW	87	1,024	100
Southern Water	Freshwater River	YALDING P.S.	64	787	100
Southern Water	Newmill Channel	BENENDEN WWTW	53	589	98.2
Southern Water	River Beult	TATT YALDING CEO	25	334	99
Southern Water	River Beult	LINTON WWTW	18	260	100
Southern Water	Maplehurst Stream	FRITTENDEN WWTW	24	175	100
Southern Water	Medway Estuary	CASTLE RD ALLINGTON PS+STORM TK CEO	22	162	99.15
Southern Water	River Beult	STAPLEHURST WWTW	10	62	98.6
Southern Water	Freshwater River	MARDEN OLD WORKS PUMPING STATION	12	38	100
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 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	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	TOVIL WHARF WASTEWATER PS	0	0	100
Southern Water	Hammer Stream	HARTLEY ROAD CRANBROOK CSO	0	0	100
Southern Water	River Medway	WESTREE PLACE MAIDSTONE CSO	0	0	0

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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