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Sittingbourne and Sheppey

Polluted by sewage 190 times in 2025 lasting 462 hours

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Live data for Sittingbourne and Sheppey in 2026

So far this year (as of 15 Aug 2026, 19:15) there has been 167 hours of sewage overflows, from 37 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Sittingbourne and Sheppey in 2025

20 Sites polluted by Southern Water
190 sewage dumps
462 hours duration
That's 2.75 weeks. 3.7 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sittingbourne and Sheppey in 2025. 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Swale Estuary QUEENBOROUGH 18 107 98.4
Southern Water Milton Creek SITTINGBOURNE WASTEWATER TMNT WORKS 19 106 99.8
Southern Water Milton Creek ST PAULS STREET SITTINGBOURNE CSO 32 55 99.9
Southern Water Medway Estuary COWSTEAD LANE NO 2 AND 3 OUTFALLS 57 52 99.47
Southern Water River Swale Estuary SOUTH STREET QUEENBOROUGH CEO 19 35 99.9
Southern Water Freshwater River WARDS HILL WASTEWATER P S 6 30 100
Southern Water Barrows Brook BARROWS BROOK EASTCHURCH CEO 8 23 100
Southern Water River Medway BRIELLE WAY WEST MINSTER CEO 4 11 100
Southern Water Leading To River Swale IWADE COMBINED EMERGENCY OVERFLOW 2 7 100
Southern Water Windmill Creek EASTCHURCH WWTW 2 6 99.8
Southern Water North Sea LITTLE GROVES LEYSDOWN ON SEA WWPS 2 6 99.5
Southern Water Non Tidal Milton Creek EAST ST/SHAKESPEARE CSO SITTINGBNE 8 4 100
Southern Water River Swale RIDHAM AVENUE KEMSLEY CEO 1 3 100
Southern Water Drainage Minster Marshes SHEERNESS EAST W W P S 1 2 100
Southern Water Milton Creek CHALKWELL ROAD SITTINGBOURNE CSO 3 2 77
Southern Water North Sea WESTCLIFFE DRIVE MINSTER IOS PS Q18 2 2 100
Southern Water Nontidal Milton Creek SURF. WATER SEWER SITTINGBOURNE 2 1 100
Southern Water Warden Bay Drain MUSTARDS ROAD PUMPING STATION 2 0 99.6
Southern Water North Sea WARDEN BAY PUMPING STATION 1 0 99.6
Southern Water Hens Brook HENSBROOK EASTCHURCH PS CEO 1 0 100
Southern Water Milton Creek Via Drain ATTLEE WAY GROVEHURST WWPS 0 0 100
Southern Water Halstow Creek: Medway LOWER ROAD, LOWER HALSTOW CEO 0 0 95.8
Southern Water Milton Creek MILLWAY SITTINGBOURNE CSO 0 0 94.6
Southern Water Scrapsgate Drain NOREEN AVENUE SHEERNESS CSO 0 0 66.8
Southern Water River Swale QUEENBOROUGH ROAD QUEENBOROUGH CEO 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. 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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