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Polluted by sewage 74 times in 2024 lasting 187 hours
Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more
So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:00 AM) there has been 6 hours of sewage overflows
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Maidstone and Malling, 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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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Maidstone and Malling 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 1 of the total 14 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.
| 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 | River Len | PADSOLE LANE MAIDSTONE CSO | 21 | 31 | 94.5 |
| Southern Water | River Medway | SOUTH STREET EAST BARMING CEO | 2 | 3 | 100 |
| Southern Water | River Len | LOWER STONE STREET MAIDSTONE CSO | 9 | 0 | 73.8 |
| Southern Water | River Medway | SANDLING LANE MAIDSTONE CSO | 2 | 0 | 70.85 |
| Southern Water | River Len | ALBION PLACE MAIDSTONE CSO | 1 | 0 | 74.3 |
| Southern Water | River Medway | BARKER ROAD MAIDSTONE CSO | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Southern Water | River Medway | KNIGHTRIDER STREET CSO | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Southern Water | River Medway | TOVIL WHARF WASTEWATER PS | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Southern Water | River Len | KING STREET MAIDSTONE CSO | 0 | 0 | 69.1 |
| Southern Water | River Medway | WESTREE PLACE MAIDSTONE CSO | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Southern Water | River Medway | DITTON WWTW | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Southern Water | River Medway | BOXLEY ROAD MAIDSTONE CSO | 0 | 0 | 65.8 |
| Southern Water | Medway Estuary | HALL ROAD AYLESFORD CSO | 0 | 0 | 85.5 |
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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