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Tunbridge Wells

Polluted by sewage 705 times in 2025 lasting 4,253 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Tunbridge Wells in 2026

So far this year (as of 10 Aug 2026, 20:31) there has been 4,954 hours of sewage overflows, from 65 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Tunbridge Wells in 2025

30 Sites polluted by Southern Water
705 sewage dumps
4,253 hours duration
That's 5.91 months. On average 1.9 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Tunbridge Wells 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 1 of the total 31 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Hexden Channel HAWKHURST NORTH WWTW 76 1,130 97.4
Southern Water River Grom TUNBRIDGE WELLS SOUTH WWTW 102 703 100
Southern Water Hexden Channel SANDHURST WWTW 50 523 97.6
Southern Water Hawkhurst South Stream HAWKHURST SOUTH S.T.W. 41 258 100
Southern Water Freshwater River CHEQUERS PUMPING STATION 34 244 99.8
Southern Water River Medway FIVE OAK GREEN ROAD TUDELEY CEO 36 190 99.6
Southern Water Rhoden Stream PADDOCK WOOD WWTW 22 156 99.7
Southern Water Barden Mill Stream BIDBOROUGH WWTW 17 125 99.9
Southern Water River Teise FURNACE POND CEO 15 117 100
Southern Water Unnamed Stream To River Medway TAYLOR STREET, SOUTHBOROUGH CSO 31 106 98.5
Southern Water Hawkhurst South Stream COCKSHOT FARM CSO, HAWKHURST, KENT 23 95 100
Southern Water Somerhill Stream TUNBRIDGE WELLS CSO, APPLE TREE LNE 55 95 99.6
Southern Water River Medway SOUTHBOROUGH CEMETERY TUNBRIDGE 37 88 96.3
Southern Water River Teise UNDERHILL GOUDHURST WWTW 13 85 97.6
Southern Water River Teise BROADFORD CEO 10 57 100
Southern Water Freshwater River HORSMONDEN ROAD PUMPING STATION 12 50 99.9
Southern Water Hexden Channel CASTLE TERRACE CSO (HAWKHURST) 14 39 100
Southern Water Chalybeate Spring KILNDOWN S.T.W. 9 38 99.9
Southern Water Barden Mill Stream HOLDEN CORNER COMBINED SEWER OVERFW 37 37 100
Southern Water Barden Stream WATERFRETS LANGTON GREEN CSO 19 27 99.9
Southern Water Somerhill Stream TUNBRIDGE WELLS (NORTH) WWTW 6 24 100
Southern Water Freshwater River BRIDGEWAYS 6 20 99.7
Southern Water River Grom NEVILLE STREET TUNBRIDGE WELLS CSO 16 15 100
Southern Water Hurstwood Stream LAKE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 9 7 100
Southern Water Tudely Brook PEMBURY WWTW 1 3 100
Southern Water River Teise SMITHS LANE(GOUDHURST)WWTW, SMITHS 3 2 100
Southern Water Barden Mill Stream LANGHOLM ROAD LANGTON GREEN CSO 4 2 99.6
Southern Water Gasworks Stream ST LUKES ROAD TUNBRIDGE WELLS CSO 4 1 100
Southern Water Unnamed Drain To River Medway PENNINGTON ROAD CEO 2 1 100
Southern Water River Medway NORTH FARM ROAD TONBRIDGE WELLS CSO 1 0 99
Southern Water Somerhill Stream GROSVENOR RECREATION GROUND 0 0 41.5

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.

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