Folkestone and Hythe

Polluted by sewage 311 times in 2024 lasting 3,432 hours

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Live data for Folkestone and Hythe in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:15 AM) there has been 511 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Folkestone and Hythe in 2024

5 Sites polluted by Southern Water
311 sewage dumps
3,432 hours duration
That's 4.77 months. 6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Folkestone and Hythe, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Folkestone and Hythe in 2024. 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 constituency all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water English Channel WEST HYTHE WWTW 152 1,580 98.6
Southern Water English Channel DOVER AND FOLKESTONE WASTE WATER 130 1,480 99.97
Southern Water Littlestone Sewer NEW ROMNEY WWTW 24 357 99.7
Southern Water Queens Road Ditch QUEENS ROAD P.S. 1 8 99.9
Southern Water Controlled Sea SANDGATE PUMPING STATION 4 5 99.9
Southern Water Strait Of Dover SANDGATE ROAD SEABROOK WPS 0 0 99.8

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.

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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