Weald of Kent was polluted by sewage 1,313 times in 2023
lasting 14,685 hours - that's 1.7 years!

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Totals for Weald of Kent in 2023
29 Sites polluted by Southern Water
1,313 sewage dumps
14,685 h duration
That's 1.7 years! On average 3.6 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Weald of Kent 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 River Beult SMARDEN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 83 1,384 100
Southern Water River Beult HIGH HALDEN WWTW 97 1,286 99.9
Southern Water Crane Brook CRANBROOK WWTW 105 1,256 100
Southern Water Hammer Stream SISSINGHURST WWTW 87 1,024 100
Southern Water River Beult STONE HILL ROAD EGERTON WWTW 62 973 99.9
Southern Water Speringbrook Sewer HAM STREET S.T.W. 65 914 100
Southern Water Newmill Channel TENTERDEN WWTW 92 889 97.3
Southern Water Freshwater River YALDING P.S. 64 787 100
Southern Water Hexden Channel ROLVENDEN LAYNE WWTW 55 731 100
Southern Water River Rother WITTERSHAM WWTW 54 671 99.9
Southern Water River Beult BETHERSDEN WWTW 59 658 100
Southern Water Newmill Channel BENENDEN WWTW 53 589 98.2
Southern Water Freshwater River HEADCORN WASTE WATER STATION 49 563 100
Southern Water Cradlebridge Sewer APPLEDORE ROAD WOODCHURCH WPS 50 415 100
Southern Water River Beult BIDDENDEN WWTW 40 384 98.6
Southern Water River Beult TATT YALDING CEO 25 334 99
Southern Water Great Stour CHARING WWTW 25 302 99.9
Southern Water Tider Gill HALES PLACE ORCHARD CSO 40 278 99.9
Southern Water River Beult LINTON WWTW 18 260 100
Southern Water Great Stour BROWN MILL LITTLE CHART FORSTAL CEO 30 245 99.7
Southern Water River Beult ULCOMBE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 28 211 99.2
Southern Water Maplehurst Stream FRITTENDEN WWTW 24 175 100
Southern Water River Rother STONE GREEN STONE IN OXNEY WWTW 61 129 100
Southern Water Freshwater River SEWAGE DRAIN, SMARDEN 9 82 99.8
Southern Water River Beult STAPLEHURST WWTW 10 62 98.6
Southern Water Freshwater River MARDEN OLD WORKS PUMPING STATION 12 38 100
Southern Water Cradlebridge Petty Swr LOWER ROAD WOODCHURCH CSO 11 29 100
Southern Water Freshwater River DOG KENNEL LANE SEWER 4 2 100
Southern Water Unnamed Tenterden Sewer RANSLEY HIGH HALDEN WPS 1 0 99.8
Southern Water River Beult SUTTON VALENCE WWTW 0 0 99.8
Southern Water Reading Sewer READING STREET W.W.T.W 0 0 100
Southern Water Hammer Stream HARTLEY ROAD CRANBROOK CSO 0 0 100

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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