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Southborough

Polluted by sewage 173 times in 2025 lasting 355 hours

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

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Totals for Southborough in 2025

8 Sites polluted by Southern Water
173 sewage dumps
355 hours duration
That's 2.11 weeks. 3.3 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Southborough 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 1 of the total 9 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 Unnamed Stream To River Medway TAYLOR STREET, SOUTHBOROUGH CSO 31 106 98.5
Southern Water Somerhill Stream TUNBRIDGE WELLS CSO, APPLE TREE LNE 55 95 99.6
Southern Water River Medway SOUTHBOROUGH CEMETERY TUNBRIDGE 37 88 96.3
Southern Water Barden Mill Stream HOLDEN CORNER COMBINED SEWER OVERFW 37 37 100
Southern Water Somerhill Stream TUNBRIDGE WELLS (NORTH) WWTW 6 24 100
Southern Water Gasworks Stream ST LUKES ROAD TUNBRIDGE WELLS CSO 4 1 100
Southern Water Unnamed Drain To River Medway PENNINGTON ROAD CEO 2 1 100
Southern Water River Medway NORTH FARM ROAD TONBRIDGE WELLS CSO 1 0 99
Southern Water Somerhill Stream GROSVENOR RECREATION GROUND 0 0 41.5

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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