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River Medway polluted by sewage 567 times in 2025 - lasting 2,527 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water River Medway HARTFIELD ROAD CSO 56 438 100
Southern Water River Medway PENSHURST S.T.W. 61 350 99.9
Southern Water River Medway HARTFIELD S.T.W. 30 312 100
Southern Water River Medway FOREST ROW WWTW 20 232 97.1
Southern Water River Medway CANNON LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 40 194 100
Southern Water River Medway FIVE OAK GREEN ROAD TUDELEY CEO 36 190 99.6
Southern Water River Medway WITHYPITTS PUMPING STATION 29 176 99.4
Southern Water River Medway FORDCOMBE WASTEWATER TREATMENT WRKS 21 98 97.7
Southern Water River Medway SOUTHBOROUGH CEMETERY TUNBRIDGE 37 88 96.3
Southern Water River Medway THE STRAND GILLINGHAM CEO 34 78 97.6
Southern Water River Medway HILDEN PARK PUMPING STATION 19 73 100
Southern Water River Medway HAZEL WAY PUMPING STATION 12 52 100
Southern Water River Medway DOCK ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 30 50 91.3
Southern Water River Medway BERENGRAVE/CHALKY BK GILLINGHAM CS0 18 45 95.2
Southern Water River Medway CSO AT STATION ROAD - FOREST ROW 14 38 48.6
Southern Water River Medway WILLIAM STREET RAINHAM CSO 21 29 100
Southern Water River Medway HAWTHORNE AVENUE GILLINGHAM CSO 22 24 85.6
Southern Water River Medway HARTLAKE ROAD PUMPING STATION 5 19 97.3
Southern Water River Medway BRIELLE WAY WEST MINSTER CEO 4 11 100
Southern Water River Medway LOWER TWYDALL LANE GILLINGHAM CSO 15 5 100
Southern Water River Medway CSO AT GODDINGTON ROAD STROOD 13 5 79.9
Southern Water River Medway MAIDA ROAD CHATHAM CSO 10 4 98.8
Southern Water River Medway SOUTH STREET EAST BARMING CEO 3 2 100
Southern Water River Medway RIDGEWAY BANKS CHATHAM CSO 4 2 69.6
Southern Water River Medway HERNE ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 7 1 100
Southern Water River Medway FERNDALE ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 3 0 99.6
Southern Water River Medway NORTH FARM ROAD TONBRIDGE WELLS CSO 1 0 99
Southern Water River Medway BARKER ROAD MAIDSTONE CSO 1 0 99.5
Southern Water River Medway CASTLE HILL ROCHESTER CSO 1 0 62.4
Southern Water River Medway CONCORD AVENUE CHATHAM CSO 0 0 50.5
Southern Water River Medway HIGH STREET RAINHAM CSO 0 0 75.8
Southern Water River Medway PLANTATION ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 0 0 96.8
Southern Water River Medway BOXLEY ROAD MAIDSTONE CSO 0 0 73.9
Southern Water River Medway DITTON WWTW 0 0 100
Southern Water River Medway KNIGHTRIDER STREET CSO 0 0 48.5
Southern Water River Medway SANDLING LANE MAIDSTONE CSO 0 0 48.85
Southern Water River Medway TOVIL WHARF WASTEWATER PS 0 0 100
Southern Water River Medway NORTH HALLING WWPS 0 0 100
Southern Water River Medway ROCHESTER AVENUE ROCHESTER CSO 0 0 99.6
Southern Water River Medway CHAFFORD LANE FORDCOMBE CEO 0 0 100
Southern Water River Medway ENFIELD ROAD LEIGH WPS 0 0 100
Southern Water River Medway LEIGH ROAD HILDENBOROUGH CSO 0 0 75.6

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

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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