Tunbridge Wells

Polluted by sewage 1,348 times in 2024 lasting 12,000 hours - That's 1.39 years!

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

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Live data for Tunbridge Wells in 2025

So far this year (as of May 20, 2025, 1:15 PM) there has been 4,398 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.51 years!

Totals for Tunbridge Wells in 2024

31 Sites polluted by Southern Water

1,348 sewage dumps

12,000 hours duration

That's 1.39 years! On average 3.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Tunbridge Wells

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Tunbridge Wells, 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 Tunbridge Wells 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 1 of the total 32 CSO 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	213	4,084	99.9
Southern Water	Hexden Channel	SANDHURST WWTW	116	1,626	99.4
Southern Water	River Grom	TUNBRIDGE WELLS SOUTH WWTW	160	1,538	99.7
Southern Water	Hawkhurst South Stream	HAWKHURST SOUTH S.T.W.	74	712	99.9
Southern Water	Barden Mill Stream	BIDBOROUGH WWTW	74	667	100
Southern Water	Hexden Channel	CASTLE TERRACE CSO (HAWKHURST)	59	406	88
Southern Water	River Teise	UNDERHILL GOUDHURST WWTW	41	361	99.6
Southern Water	Freshwater River	CHEQUERS PUMPING STATION	54	349	99.9
Southern Water	River Medway	FIVE OAK GREEN ROAD TUDELEY CEO	40	342	99.7
Southern Water	Rhoden Stream	PADDOCK WOOD WWTW	39	313	99.9
Southern Water	River Teise	FURNACE POND CEO	35	272	100
Southern Water	Unnamed Stream To River Medway	TAYLOR STREET, SOUTHBOROUGH CSO	41	213	87.4
Southern Water	Hawkhurst South Stream	COCKSHOT FARM CSO, HAWKHURST, KENT	38	195	100
Southern Water	Somerhill Stream	TUNBRIDGE WELLS (NORTH) WWTW	14	126	80
Southern Water	Somerhill Stream	TUNBRIDGE WELLS CSO, APPLE TREE LNE	73	122	100
Southern Water	River Teise	BROADFORD CEO	19	96	99.9
Southern Water	Chalybeate Spring	KILNDOWN S.T.W.	13	93	100
Southern Water	Freshwater River	8 HURSTWOOD PUMPING STATION	33	81	99.9
Southern Water	Freshwater River	HORSMONDEN ROAD PUMPING STATION	20	80	99.8
Southern Water	Freshwater River	BRIDGEWAYS	20	55	99.8
Southern Water	River Medway	SOUTHBOROUGH CEMETERY TUNBRIDGE	35	52	64.9
Southern Water	River Grom	NEVILLE STREET TUNBRIDGE WELLS CSO	20	43	99.8
Southern Water	Barden Stream	WATERFRETS LANGTON GREEN CSO	26	36	99.9
Southern Water	Barden Mill Stream	HOLDEN CORNER COMBINED SEWER OVERFW	30	34	100
Southern Water	River Teise	SMITHS LANE(GOUDHURST)WWTW, SMITHS	9	26	91.2
Southern Water	Hurstwood Stream	LAKE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	11	20	99.7
Southern Water	Gasworks Stream	ST LUKES ROAD TUNBRIDGE WELLS CSO	17	20	99.9
Southern Water	Barden Mill Stream	LANGHOLM ROAD LANGTON GREEN CSO	8	8	92.5
Southern Water	Unnamed Drain To River Medway	PENNINGTON ROAD CEO	10	6	99.7
Southern Water	Tudely Brook	PEMBURY WWTW	3	6	99.9
Southern Water	River Medway	NORTH FARM ROAD TONBRIDGE WELLS CSO	3	1	20
Southern Water	Somerhill Stream	GROSVENOR RECREATION GROUND	0	0	94.4

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.

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Tunbridge Wells Polluted by sewage 1,348 times in 2024 lasting 12,000 hours - That's 1.39 years! Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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