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Ashford (Ashford)

Polluted by sewage 142 times in 2025 lasting 781 hours

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Totals for Ashford (Ashford) in 2025

12 Sites polluted by Southern Water
142 sewage dumps
781 hours duration
That's 4.65 weeks. 2.7 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Ashford (Ashford) 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 place all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Mill Stream MILL LANE KENNINGTON CEO 24 282 99.9
Southern Water Great Stour ASHFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 17 156 99.5
Southern Water Freshwater River Great Stour BALL LANE- KENNINGTON CSO 11 100 89.6
Southern Water East Stour KINGSNORTH ROAD, ASHFORD CSO 23 83 99.9
Southern Water East Stour WOTTON ROAD CSO 18 65 99.5
Southern Water Freshwater River SOUTH ASHFORD P.S. 7 42 100
Southern Water Great Stour CHRISTCHURCH ROAD ASFORD CSO 13 15 99.7
Southern Water Great Stour DOVER PLACE CSO, ASHFORD, KENT 13 15 100
Southern Water East Stour River BREADLANDS ROAD ASHFORD CSO 10 8 78.6
Southern Water East Stour MARTYRS FIELD CSO 4 5 100
Southern Water River Stour FIELD END GARDEN ASHFORD CSO 1 3 52.1
Southern Water Great Stour River BLACKWALL ROAD 1 2 99.9
Southern Water Bockhanger Dyke BOCKHANGER CEO 0 0 100
Southern Water Freshwater River BYBROOK PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.9
Southern Water East Stour CANTERBURY ROAD SOUTH WILLESBOROUGH 0 0 100
Southern Water Great Stour GODINTON ROAD ASHFORD CSO 0 0 70.4
Southern Water Great Stour QUEENS ROAD CSO (R/O HEDLEYS) 0 0 100
Southern Water River Great Stour SOMERSET ROAD ASHFORD CSO 0 0 93.7
Southern Water Great Stour VICTORIA ROAD ASHFORD CSO 0 0 77.2

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.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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