Canterbury

Polluted by sewage 67 times in 2024 lasting 309 hours

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Totals for Canterbury in 2024

4 Sites polluted by Southern Water

67 sewage dumps

309 hours duration

That's 12.88 days. 1.3 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

Waterways in Canterbury

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Canterbury 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 locality 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	River Great Stour	CANTERBURY WASTEWATER TREATMENT WKS	20	202	99.8
Southern Water	Great Stour	WINCHEAP CANTERBURY CSO	17	45	99.7
Southern Water	Great Stour	HOSPITAL FARM HARBLEDOWN CEO	17	34	100
Southern Water	Great Stour River	FORDWICH ROAD STURRY CEO	13	26	99.7
Southern Water	Great Stour River	KINGSMEAD ROAD CANTERBURY CSO	0	0	99.7

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.

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