Sittingbourne and Sheppey polluted by sewage 180 times in 2022 - lasting 491 hours

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Totals for Sittingbourne and Sheppey in 2022
19 Sites polluted by Southern Water
180 sewage dumps
491 h duration
That's 20.46 days. 3.5 times a week, on average
Constituencies near Sittingbourne and Sheppey

Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sittingbourne and Sheppey in 2022. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Swale Estuary QUEENBOROUGH 23 173 100
Southern Water Milton Creek SITTINGBOURNE WASTEWATER TMNT WORKS 18 67 99.9
Southern Water River Swale Estuary SOUTH STREET QUEENBOROUGH CEO 21 34 99.8
Southern Water Barrows Brook BARROWS BROOK EASTCHURCH CEO 6 30 99.9
Southern Water Milton Creek ST PAULS STREET SITTINGBOURNE CSO 23 29 100
Southern Water Freshwater River WARDS HILL WASTEWATER P S 3 24 99.7
Southern Water River Medway BRIELLE WAY WEST MINSTER CEO 12 22 99.9
Southern Water Medway Estuary COWSTEAD LANE NO 2 AND 3 OUTFALLS 39 19 100
Southern Water Windmill Creek EASTCHURCH WWTW 4 16 100
Southern Water Leading To River Swale IWADE COMBINED EMERGENCY OVERFLOW 2 12 99.8
Southern Water Hens Brook HENSBROOK EASTCHURCH PS CEO 3 9 99.9
Southern Water River Swale QUEENBOROUGH ROAD QUEENBOROUGH CEO 2 9 100
Southern Water Scrapsgate Drain NOREEN AVENUE SHEERNESS CSO 2 8 22.3
Southern Water Drainage Minster Marshes SHEERNESS EAST W W P S 1 7 99.9
Southern Water Nontidal Milton Creek SURF. WATER SEWER SITTINGBOURNE 5 6 100
Southern Water Milton Creek CHALKWELL ROAD SITTINGBOURNE CSO 7 6 86.3
Southern Water Non Tidal Milton Creek EAST ST/SHAKESPEARE CSO SITTINGBNE 4 6 100
Southern Water North Sea WESTCLIFFE DRIVE MINSTER IOS PS Q18 2 2 99.7
Southern Water Warden Bay Drain MUSTARDS ROAD PUMPING STATION 3 2 99.9
Southern Water River Swale RIDHAM AVENUE KEMSLEY CEO 0 0 99.8
Southern Water Milton Creek Via Drain ATTLEE WAY GROVEHURST WWPS 0 0 100
Southern Water North Sea LITTLE GROVES LEYSDOWN ON SEA WWPS 0 0 99.9
Southern Water North Sea WARDEN BAY PUMPING STATION 0 0 2.3
Southern Water Milton Creek MILLWAY SITTINGBOURNE CSO 0 0 0
Southern Water Halstow Creek: Medway LOWER ROAD, LOWER HALSTOW CEO 0 0 99.9
Southern Water Frognal Drain TEYNHAM S.T.W. 0 0 98.3

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales

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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