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Tunbridge Wells was polluted by sewage 1,188 times in 2023
lasting 11,148 hours - that's 1.29 years!

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Totals for Tunbridge Wells in 2023

29 Sites polluted by Southern Water

1,188 sewage dumps
11,148 h duration

That's 1.29 years! On average 3.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Tunbridge Wells

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Tunbridge Wells in 2023. 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 32 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	Hexden Channel	HAWKHURST NORTH WWTW	165	3,056	100
Southern Water	Hexden Channel	SANDHURST WWTW	111	1,697	99.9
Southern Water	River Grom	TUNBRIDGE WELLS SOUTH WWTW	162	1,686	100
Southern Water	Hawkhurst South Stream	HAWKHURST SOUTH S.T.W.	82	925	98.9
Southern Water	Hexden Channel	CASTLE TERRACE CSO (HAWKHURST)	81	708	100
Southern Water	Chalybeate Spring	KILNDOWN S.T.W.	34	498	99.9
Southern Water	Freshwater River	CHEQUERS PUMPING STATION	43	346	99.8
Southern Water	Barden Mill Stream	BIDBOROUGH WWTW	41	335	100
Southern Water	River Teise	UNDERHILL GOUDHURST WWTW	24	246	96.1
Southern Water	Rhoden Stream	PADDOCK WOOD WWTW	38	238	99.5
Southern Water	River Medway	FIVE OAK GREEN ROAD TUDELEY CEO	30	222	99.8
Southern Water	Hawkhurst South Stream	COCKSHOT FARM CSO, HAWKHURST, KENT	42	220	100
Southern Water	River Teise	FURNACE POND CEO	32	203	100
Southern Water	River Teise	SMITHS LANE(GOUDHURST)WWTW, SMITHS	14	129	100
Southern Water	Freshwater River	HORSMONDEN ROAD PUMPING STATION	21	102	100
Southern Water	Unnamed Stream To River Medway	TAYLOR STREET, SOUTHBOROUGH CSO	28	93	64.8
Southern Water	Somerhill Stream	TUNBRIDGE WELLS CSO, APPLE TREE LNE	60	88	99.9
Southern Water	River Teise	BROADFORD CEO	19	88	99.8
Southern Water	Freshwater River	8 HURSTWOOD PUMPING STATION	24	60	100
Southern Water	Freshwater River	BRIDGEWAYS	14	42	99.8
Southern Water	Somerhill Stream	TUNBRIDGE WELLS (NORTH) WWTW	8	38	99
Southern Water	River Medway	SOUTHBOROUGH CEMETERY TUNBRIDGE	20	36	51.2
Southern Water	River Grom	NEVILLE STREET TUNBRIDGE WELLS CSO	23	23	99.7
Southern Water	Barden Stream	WATERFRETS LANGTON GREEN CSO	15	20	99.9
Southern Water	Barden Mill Stream	HOLDEN CORNER COMBINED SEWER OVERFW	21	10	100
Southern Water	Gasworks Stream	ST LUKES ROAD TUNBRIDGE WELLS CSO	13	9	99
Southern Water	Hurstwood Stream	LAKE ROAD COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	10	8	100
Southern Water	Barden Mill Stream	LANGHOLM ROAD LANGTON GREEN CSO	5	5	47.3
Southern Water	Unnamed Drain To River Medway	PENNINGTON ROAD CEO	8	4	99.9
Southern Water	Tudely Brook	PEMBURY WWTW	0	0	100
Southern Water	River Medway	NORTH FARM ROAD TONBRIDGE WELLS CSO	0	0	70.1
Southern Water	Somerhill Stream	GROSVENOR RECREATION GROUND	0	0	95

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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