Sittingbourne and Sheppey was polluted by sewage 342 times in 2024
lasting 3,146 hours

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Live data for Sittingbourne and Sheppey in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 5:45 PM) there has been 320 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Sittingbourne and Sheppey in 2024

17 Sites polluted by Southern Water

342 sewage dumps
3,146 h duration

That's 4.37 months. 6.6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Sittingbourne and Sheppey

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sittingbourne and Sheppey in 2024. 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	142	2,129	99.9
Southern Water	Swale Estuary	QUEENBOROUGH	53	618	96
Southern Water	Medway Estuary	COWSTEAD LANE NO 2 AND 3 OUTFALLS	45	132	91.45
Southern Water	Barrows Brook	BARROWS BROOK EASTCHURCH CEO	17	89	100
Southern Water	River Medway	BRIELLE WAY WEST MINSTER CEO	17	56	99.8
Southern Water	River Swale Estuary	SOUTH STREET QUEENBOROUGH CEO	22	37	99.9
Southern Water	Milton Creek	ST PAULS STREET SITTINGBOURNE CSO	17	33	88.2
Southern Water	Freshwater River	WARDS HILL WASTEWATER P S	6	16	100
Southern Water	Windmill Creek	EASTCHURCH WWTW	4	13	100
Southern Water	Nontidal Milton Creek	SURF. WATER SEWER SITTINGBOURNE	5	5	100
Southern Water	Milton Creek	CHALKWELL ROAD SITTINGBOURNE CSO	4	4	71.6
Southern Water	Scrapsgate Drain	NOREEN AVENUE SHEERNESS CSO	2	3	66.6
Southern Water	Non Tidal Milton Creek	EAST ST/SHAKESPEARE CSO SITTINGBNE	3	1	99.9
Southern Water	River Swale	QUEENBOROUGH ROAD QUEENBOROUGH CEO	1	1	98.6
Southern Water	North Sea	WESTCLIFFE DRIVE MINSTER IOS PS Q18	2	1	99.9
Southern Water	Milton Creek	MILLWAY SITTINGBOURNE CSO	1	0	70.8
Southern Water	Leading To River Swale	IWADE COMBINED EMERGENCY OVERFLOW	1	0	99.9
Southern Water	Halstow Creek: Medway	LOWER ROAD, LOWER HALSTOW CEO	0	0	99.1
Southern Water	River Swale	RIDHAM AVENUE KEMSLEY CEO	0	0	100
Southern Water	Drainage Minster Marshes	SHEERNESS EAST W W P S	0	0	99.9
Southern Water	Warden Bay Drain	MUSTARDS ROAD PUMPING STATION	0	0	99.7
Southern Water	Hens Brook	HENSBROOK EASTCHURCH PS CEO	0	0	100
Southern Water	North Sea	WARDEN BAY PUMPING STATION	0	0	95.7
Southern Water	North Sea	LITTLE GROVES LEYSDOWN ON SEA WWPS	0	0	99.7
Southern Water	Milton Creek Via Drain	ATTLEE WAY GROVEHURST WWPS	0	0	99.8

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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