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Weald of Kent

Polluted by sewage 729 times in 2025 lasting 5,105 hours

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

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Live data for Weald of Kent in 2026

So far this year (as of 10 Aug 2026, 21:16) there has been 10,849 hours of sewage overflows, from 73 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s - that's 1.26 years!

Totals for Weald of Kent in 2025

29 Sites polluted by Southern Water
729 sewage dumps
5,105 hours duration
That's 7.09 months. On average 2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Weald of Kent 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 32 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 Hammer Stream SISSINGHURST WWTW 64 799 100
Southern Water River Beult SMARDEN WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 41 516 97.6
Southern Water Crane Brook CRANBROOK WWTW 83 439 100
Southern Water Freshwater River YALDING P.S. 42 342 99.9
Southern Water Newmill Channel TENTERDEN WWTW 64 334 99.9
Southern Water Speringbrook Sewer HAM STREET S.T.W. 34 306 100
Southern Water Freshwater River HEADCORN WASTE WATER STATION 29 241 100
Southern Water River Beult HIGH HALDEN WWTW 26 211 49.2
Southern Water River Beult STONE HILL ROAD EGERTON WWTW 21 209 100
Southern Water River Rother WITTERSHAM WWTW 34 187 99.9
Southern Water Cradlebridge Sewer APPLEDORE ROAD WOODCHURCH WPS 27 182 100
Southern Water River Beult BETHERSDEN WWTW 21 175 99.8
Southern Water Great Stour BROWN MILL LITTLE CHART FORSTAL CEO 21 172 100
Southern Water Newmill Channel BENENDEN WWTW 21 167 99.9
Southern Water River Beult TATT YALDING CEO 21 152 100
Southern Water Hexden Channel ROLVENDEN LAYNE WWTW 10 102 97.7
Southern Water Maplehurst Stream FRITTENDEN WWTW 15 86 99.7
Southern Water River Rother STONE GREEN STONE IN OXNEY WWTW 71 83 100
Southern Water River Beult ULCOMBE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 8 70 99.3
Southern Water Tider Gill HALES PLACE ORCHARD CSO 19 67 99.8
Southern Water Great Stour CHARING WWTW 12 59 100
Southern Water River Beult BIDDENDEN WWTW 8 55 99.3
Southern Water River Beult STAPLEHURST WWTW 7 52 100
Southern Water Cradlebridge Petty Swr LOWER ROAD WOODCHURCH CSO 7 23 99.8
Southern Water Freshwater River MARDEN OLD WORKS PUMPING STATION 3 19 100
Southern Water Freshwater River SEWAGE DRAIN, SMARDEN 3 17 99.9
Southern Water River Beult LINTON WWTW 8 14 100
Southern Water Freshwater River DOG KENNEL LANE SEWER 8 11 100
Southern Water Reading Sewer READING STREET W.W.T.W 1 0 99.9
Southern Water Hammer Stream HARTLEY ROAD CRANBROOK CSO 0 0 99.4
Southern Water Unnamed Tenterden Sewer RANSLEY HIGH HALDEN WPS 0 0 100
Southern Water River Beult SUTTON VALENCE WWTW 0 0 98.2

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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