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Tonbridge - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 4,163 hours in 2025

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Tonbridge for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 1,694 hours
Feb - 633 hours
Mar - 0 hours
Apr - 30 hours
May - 0 hours
Jun - 27 hours
Jul - 60 hours
Aug - 83 hours
Sept - 95 hours
Oct - 291 hours
Nov - 174 hours
Dec - 1,072 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Southern Water COWDEN SSO - 115723 Kent Water 42 609h 26m -
Southern Water EDENBRIDGE SSO - 115738 River Eden 43 501h 30m -
Southern Water COLDHARBOUR LANE HILDENBOROUGH CEO - 108613 Hilden Brook 24 319h 37m -
Southern Water PENSHURST CSO - 115997 River Medway 40 302h 5m -
Southern Water PRIORY MILL TONBRIDGE CEO - 108706 Somerhill Stream 18 278h 12m -
Southern Water PRIORY MILL TONBRIDGE CEO - 108706 Somerhill Stream 27 244h 15m -
Southern Water COWDEN SSO - 115723 Kent Water 15 237h 52m -
Southern Water COLDHARBOUR LANE HILDENBOROUGH REAR XX CSO - 108612 Hilden Brook 16 198h 36m -
Southern Water CANNON LANE TONBRIDGE CSO - 108596 River Medway 28 173h 40m -
Southern Water TONBRIDGE SSO - 115731 Botany Stream 11 143h 15m -
Southern Water PRIORY ROAD TONBRIDGE OUTSIDE 86 CSO - 108707 Botany Stream 23 131h 54m -
Southern Water EDENBRIDGE SSO - 115738 River Eden 11 108h 2m -
Southern Water EGGPIE LANE LEIGH CSO - 108633 Unnamed Dicth/Stream 13 100h 3m -
Southern Water PENSHURST CSO - 115997 River Medway 15 87h 48m -
Southern Water REEDS LANE SHIPBOURNE CEO - 108019 River Bourne 11 81h 28m -
Southern Water COLDHARBOUR LANE HILDENBOROUGH CEO - 108613 Hilden Brook 9 78h 12m -
Southern Water LEIGH ROAD HILDENBOROUGH CSO - 109117 River Medway 4 77h 36m -
Southern Water FORDCOMBE CSO - 115982 River Medway 13 76h 39m -
Southern Water HILDEN BRIDGE CEO - 108812 Hilden Brook 7 63h 38m -
Southern Water OLD HADLOW ROAD TONBRIDGE CSO - 107444 Mill Stream 10 62h 17m -
Southern Water HILDEN PARK ROAD HILDENBOROUGH CEO - 108655 River Medway 4 49h 44m -
Southern Water TONBRIDGE SSO - 115731 Botany Stream 4 28h 45m -
Southern Water CHIDDINGSTONE CAUSEWAY CEO - 108598 River Eden 2 23h 14m -
Southern Water FORDCOMBE CSO - 115982 River Medway 6 23h 10m -
Southern Water CHIDDINGSTONE CAUSEWAY CEO - 108598 River Eden 3 22h 52m -
Southern Water HARTLAKE ROAD HADLOW CEO - 108897 River Medway 5 19h 13m -
Southern Water TONBRIDGE CSO - 111336 Botany Stream 2 17h 57m -
Southern Water HAWDEN ROAD TONBRIDGE CSO - 108736 Hilden Brook 1 15h 15m -
Southern Water CANNON LANE TONBRIDGE CSO - 108596 River Medway 5 14h 53m -
Southern Water REEDS LANE SHIPBOURNE CEO - 108019 River Bourne 2 12h 23m -
Southern Water PRIORY ROAD TONBRIDGE OUTSIDE 86 CSO - 108707 Botany Stream 3 11h 30m -
Southern Water RIDING LANE HILDENBOROUGH CSO - 108716 Hilden Brook 10 11h 11m -
Southern Water CHAFFORD LANE FORDCOMBE CEO - 108599 River Medway 3 7h 52m -
Southern Water CHARCOTT PLACE CEO - 108814 Little Hawden Stream 1 7h -
Southern Water CHARCOTT PLACE CEO - 108814 Little Hawden Stream 4 6h 36m -
Southern Water HILDEN BRIDGE CEO - 108812 Hilden Brook 1 5h 2m -
Southern Water BOURNE BRIDGE HADLOW CSO - 108589 River Bourne 4 3h 35m -
Southern Water RIDING LANE HILDENBOROUGH CSO - 108716 Hilden Brook 1 3h 22m -
Southern Water EGGPIE LANE LEIGH CSO - 108633 Unnamed Dicth/Stream 2 2h 34m -
Southern Water HAWDEN ROAD TONBRIDGE CSO - 108736 Hilden Brook 1 0h 38m -
Southern Water OLD HADLOW ROAD TONBRIDGE CSO - 107444 Mill Stream 0 0h -
Southern Water HARTLAKE ROAD HADLOW CEO - 108897 River Medway 0 0h -
Southern Water TONBRIDGE CSO - 111336 Botany Stream 0 0h -
Southern Water HILDEN PARK ROAD HILDENBOROUGH CEO - 108655 River Medway 0 0h -
Southern Water BOURNE BRIDGE HADLOW CSO - 108589 River Bourne 0 0h -

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.