Medway Estuary polluted by sewage 111 times in 2024 - lasting 307 hours

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Totals for Medway Estuary in 2024
6 Sites polluted by Southern Water
111 sewage dumps
307 h duration
That's 12.79 days. 2.1 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Medway Estuary in 2024. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

These numbers are very slightly different from the Rivers page. We're working on it.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Medway Estuary CASTLE RD ALLINGTON PS+STORM TK CEO 37 150 99.5
Southern Water Medway Estuary COWSTEAD LANE NO 2 AND 3 OUTFALLS 45 132 91.45
Southern Water Medway Estuary GRAIN WWTW 26 23 96.8
Southern Water Medway Estuary CHARLES STREET STROOD CSO 1 0 100
Southern Water Medway Estuary SAUNDERS STREET GILLINGHAM CSO 1 0 99.8
Southern Water Medway Estuary GROVE ROAD CHATHAM OUTSIDE 1 CSO 1 0 70.8
Southern Water Medway Estuary HALL ROAD AYLESFORD CSO 0 0 85.5
Southern Water Medway Estuary FRINDSBURY ROAD STROOD CSO 0 0 50.6

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. This 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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