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Medway Estuary polluted by sewage 115 times in 2025 - lasting 120 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Medway Estuary COWSTEAD LANE NO 2 AND 3 OUTFALLS 57 52 99.47
Southern Water Medway Estuary CASTLE RD ALLINGTON PS+STORM TK CEO 14 27 99.5
Southern Water Medway Estuary SAUNDERS STREET GILLINGHAM CSO 5 16 100
Southern Water Medway Estuary GRAIN WWTW 18 15 98.7
Southern Water Medway Estuary CHARLES STREET STROOD CSO 6 4 95.1
Southern Water Medway Estuary GROVE ROAD CHATHAM OUTSIDE 1 CSO 7 2 87.3
Southern Water Medway Estuary HALL ROAD AYLESFORD CSO 5 1 99.7
Southern Water Medway Estuary FRINDSBURY ROAD STROOD CSO 3 0 93

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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