Gillingham and Rainham

Polluted by sewage 505 times in 2024 lasting 959 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Gillingham and Rainham in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:00 AM) there has been 2,667 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Gillingham and Rainham in 2024

19 Sites polluted by Southern Water
505 sewage dumps
959 hours duration
That's 1.33 months. On average 1.4 times a day

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 Gillingham and Rainham, 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 Gillingham and Rainham 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 2 of the total 27 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Southern Water Medway Estaury MOTNEY HILL WWTW 84 348 97.6
Southern Water River Medway THE STRAND GILLINGHAM CEO 67 138 99.5
Southern Water Otterham Creek BROOMCROFT ROAD, GILLINGHAM CSO 60 108 67.6
Southern Water River Medway HAWTHORNE AVENUE GILLINGHAM CSO 57 65 100
Southern Water Otterham Creek ORCHARD STREET GILLINGHAM CSO 61 61 99.9
Southern Water Otterham Creek STATION ROAD RAINHAM CSO 7 59 79
Southern Water River Medway LOWER TWYDALL LANE GILLINGHAM CSO 6 38 100
Southern Water Otterham Creek MAIDSTONE ROAD RAINHAM CSO 32 35 99.9
Southern Water River Medway BERENGRAVE/CHALKY BK GILLINGHAM CS0 25 32 67
Southern Water River Medway WILLIAM STREET RAINHAM CSO 21 22 100
Southern Water River Medway Estuary PUMP LANE GILLINGHAM TANK CSO 14 20 94.8
Southern Water River Medway Estuary WOODCHURCH CRESCENT GILLINGHAM CSO 24 11 100
Southern Water Saline Estuary CSO BEECHINGS WAY NO 3 25 10 100
Southern Water Otterham Creek WOODSIDE WIGMORE CSO 8 4 99.9
Southern Water River Medway HERNE ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 7 1 100
Southern Water Gillingham Reach/ Medway Est ST MARYS ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 4 0 100
Southern Water Medway Estuary SAUNDERS STREET GILLINGHAM CSO 1 0 99.8
Southern Water River Medway Estuary LOWER RAINHAM ROAD LOWER RAINHAM PS 1 0 100
Southern Water River Medway FERNDALE ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 1 0 100
Southern Water River Medway Estuary PUMP LANE GILLINGHAM NO.1 CSO 0 0 16.8
Southern Water Otterham Creek CHALKY BANK ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 0 0 91.3
Southern Water River Medway Estuary PUMP LANE GILLINGHAM NO.2 CSO 0 0 100
Southern Water River Medway HIGH STREET RAINHAM CSO 0 0 59.6
Southern Water Saline Estuary MEDWAY ROAD CSO 0 0 98.9
Southern Water Gillingham Reach/ Medway Est SAUNDERS STREET GILLINGHAM CSO 0 0 87.1
Southern Water River Medway Estuary DIAL ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 0 0 15
Southern Water River Medway PLANTATION ROAD GILLINGHAM CSO 0 0 98.3

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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