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Great Stour polluted by sewage 99 times in 2025 - lasting 495 hours

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Totals for Great Stour in 2025
9 Sites polluted by Southern Water
99 sewage dumps
495 h duration
That's 2.95 weeks. 1.9 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Great Stour in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Great Stour BROWN MILL LITTLE CHART FORSTAL CEO 21 172 100
Southern Water Great Stour ASHFORD WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 17 156 99.5
Southern Water Great Stour CHARING WWTW 12 59 100
Southern Water Great Stour WESTBERE WWTW 7 45 97.6
Southern Water Great Stour HOSPITAL FARM HARBLEDOWN CEO 11 19 100
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 Great Stour STONEBRIDGE ROAD WWPS 2 11 100
Southern Water Great Stour WINCHEAP CANTERBURY CSO 3 0 96.1
Southern Water Great Stour CHURCHFIELD WAY WYE CEO 0 0 99.3
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 Great Stour VICTORIA ROAD ASHFORD CSO 0 0 77.2
Southern Water Great Stour LENHAM WASTEWATER TREATMENT WORKS 0 0 48.6

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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