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Sittingbourne and Sheppey was polluted by sewage 322 times in 2023
lasting 1,544 hours

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Totals for Sittingbourne and Sheppey in 2023

20 Sites polluted by Southern Water

322 sewage dumps
1,544 h duration

That's 2.14 months. 6.2 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Sittingbourne and Sheppey

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sittingbourne and Sheppey 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 25 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	Milton Creek	SITTINGBOURNE WASTEWATER TMNT WORKS	62	526	100
Southern Water	Swale Estuary	QUEENBOROUGH	47	509	100
Southern Water	Medway Estuary	COWSTEAD LANE NO 2 AND 3 OUTFALLS	61	222	100
Southern Water	Barrows Brook	BARROWS BROOK EASTCHURCH CEO	18	88	100
Southern Water	Milton Creek	ST PAULS STREET SITTINGBOURNE CSO	36	56	98.5
Southern Water	River Medway	BRIELLE WAY WEST MINSTER CEO	26	51	99.9
Southern Water	River Swale Estuary	SOUTH STREET QUEENBOROUGH CEO	27	46	100
Southern Water	Windmill Creek	EASTCHURCH WWTW	2	7	100
Southern Water	Milton Creek	CHALKWELL ROAD SITTINGBOURNE CSO	11	7	93.8
Southern Water	Nontidal Milton Creek	SURF. WATER SEWER SITTINGBOURNE	5	6	100
Southern Water	Freshwater River	WARDS HILL WASTEWATER P S	4	5	99.9
Southern Water	Non Tidal Milton Creek	EAST ST/SHAKESPEARE CSO SITTINGBNE	7	3	100
Southern Water	Leading To River Swale	IWADE COMBINED EMERGENCY OVERFLOW	1	3	99.9
Southern Water	North Sea	WESTCLIFFE DRIVE MINSTER IOS PS Q18	4	1	99.8
Southern Water	River Swale	QUEENBOROUGH ROAD QUEENBOROUGH CEO	1	1	99.9
Southern Water	Scrapsgate Drain	NOREEN AVENUE SHEERNESS CSO	6	1	78.2
Southern Water	North Sea	LITTLE GROVES LEYSDOWN ON SEA WWPS	1	1	100
Southern Water	Milton Creek	MILLWAY SITTINGBOURNE CSO	1	1	25.3
Southern Water	Warden Bay Drain	MUSTARDS ROAD PUMPING STATION	1	0	99.8
Southern Water	Halstow Creek: Medway	LOWER ROAD, LOWER HALSTOW CEO	1	0	99.7
Southern Water	Hens Brook	HENSBROOK EASTCHURCH PS CEO	0	0	99.9
Southern Water	Drainage Minster Marshes	SHEERNESS EAST W W P S	0	0	99.8
Southern Water	North Sea	WARDEN BAY PUMPING STATION	0	0	31.8
Southern Water	Milton Creek Via Drain	ATTLEE WAY GROVEHURST WWPS	0	0	55.4
Southern Water	River Swale	RIDHAM AVENUE KEMSLEY CEO	0	0	99.9

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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