Mid Kent Water

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Mid Kent Water supplies part of Kent and a small part of East Sussex

Population supplied: 579,300

Daily supply: 166m litres

Mains pipe: 4,209 km

Leakage: 28m litres/day (111 litres/property/day)

Supply source: 5% surface, 89% ground, 6% mixed

RESTRICTION LEVEL

Hosepipe ban in place since 8 August 2005.

A non-essential use drought order was granted by the environment minister on 25 May 2006.

The company said it would not implement the order at the time because supplies were sufficient.

Mid Kent became the final water company to lift the hosepipe ban, on February 28 2007, several weeks after most other companies in the region had scrapped the restriction.

Water firms given drought orders

What different restriction levels mean

MORE INFORMATION

The vast majority of Mid Kent's water supply (89%) comes from aquifers - natural underground water reserves - found in the Chalk, Greensand and Ashdown Beds.

These are usually replenished by winter rainfall so the relatively dry winter has had a severe effect on the reserves.

Mid Kent can also draw on Bewl Water reservoir but this has also been greatly depleted and has had to be filled from the River Medway.

CONTACT DETAILS

Mid Kent Water
Snodland
Kent
ME6 5AH

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