Chatham

Polluted by sewage 280 times in 2024 lasting 388 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Chatham in 2024

22 Sites polluted by Southern Water

280 sewage dumps

388 hours duration

That's 16.17 days. 5.4 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

Waterways in Chatham

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Chatham 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 locality 9 of the total 28 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Southern Water	Tidal Estuary Of River Medway	NORTHGATE ROCHESTER CSO	68	111	97.9
Southern Water	Tidal Estuary Of River Medway	CONSTITUTION HILL CHATHAM CSO	32	76	77.5
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	SECOND AVENUE NO 3 CHATHAM CSO	18	41	74.7
Southern Water	River Medway	DOCK ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO	36	35	70.1
Southern Water	Whitewall Creek	WHITEWALL CREEK WWTW	4	27	100
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	CORPORATION STREET ROCHESTER CEO	5	27	46.4
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	MAGPIE HALL ROAD CHATHAM OUTSIDE 33	38	19	83.8
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	FURRELLS ROAD, ROCHESTER CSO	19	16	100
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	SECOND AVENUE NO 2 CSO	16	12	40.2
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	HIGH STREET ROCHESTER CSO	7	10	70.7
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	CLOVER STREET CHATHAM CSO	10	3	68.2
Southern Water	River Medway	RIDGEWAY BANKS CHATHAM CSO	7	1	100
Southern Water	River Medway	ROCHESTER AVENUE ROCHESTER CSO	4	1	67.9
Southern Water	River Medway	CONCORD AVENUE CHATHAM CSO	2	0	26.7
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	SECOND AVE CHATHAM NO1 CSO	2	0	99.9
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	STURLA ROAD CHATHAM CSO	1	0	33.1
Southern Water	River Medway	MAIDA ROAD CHATHAM CSO	3	0	22.7
Southern Water	Saline Estuary	NEW BROOK PUMPING STATION	4	0	68.1
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	ORDNANCE TERRACE CHATHAM CSO	1	0	90.3
Southern Water	Medway Estuary	GROVE ROAD CHATHAM OUTSIDE 1 CSO	1	0	70.8
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	MELBOURNE ROAD CHATHAM CSO	1	0	100
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	GROVE ROAD CHATHAM O/S 77 CSO	1	0	100
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	CHATHAM HILL CHATHAM OUTSIDE 10 CSO	0	0	9.3
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	CSO HOPWELL DRIVE (CHATHAM)	0	0	94.8
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	MAGPIE HALL ROAD OUTSIDE 60 CSO	0	0	55.7
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	WALDERSLADE ROAD CHATHAM 149 CSO	0	0	2.3
Southern Water	River Medway Estuary	CHATHAM HILL OUTSIDE 425 CSO	0	0	0
Southern Water	Tidal Estaury Of River Medway	CORPORATION ST ROCHESTER NO 2 CSO	0	0	23.7

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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Chatham Polluted by sewage 280 times in 2024 lasting 388 hours Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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