Kyd Brook
London, Bromley, United Kingdom
This part of Kyd Brook runs within Crofton Wood near the wooden bridge that crosses Kyd Brook, which is near Eynesford recreation ground. It generally isn't a deep running brook unless it's been raining or has rained then it can be a few feet high or even overflow in places and run quickly. Crofton Woods has a clay soil wood and run off from the woods enters the brook in various places. There is a surface water overflow (S.W.O) running into it at this location. Further upstream there are 2 more S.W.Os and and a combined sewer overflow (C.S.O) which discharges untreated sewage into Kyd Brook at certain times, especially during heavy rain.
Location created by
Kirsty Blackman
- Group: Thames21 : Ravensbourne Catchment Improvement Group's Water Quality Working Group
- Site ID: What3words sushi.socket.stands
- Lat: 51.38204
- Lng: 0.0703164
- Waterbody Type: Unknown
- Timezone: Europe/London
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Today there was a strong rotting smell with a hint of sewage and laundry detergent, it could be sewage fungus. This has been reported on the new government website for reporting water pollution in England ref - 02400689
There is a known C.S.O upstream. The E.D.M showed that the last discharge was on the 7th June 2025 from 17:45- 20:00 = 2hrs 45mins.
Also at this monitoring site there is a S.W.O with a misconnection meaning that there is often a smell of laundry detergent and visible signs coming from the S.W.O. This has been reported but to date the misconnection has not been found.
There is a known missed connection on the S.W.O, today there was a smell of Laundry detergent and a small grey /blue discolouration in the water nearby.
There is a known misconnection into this surface water overflow/S.W.O, which means that there is often laundry detergent entering the brook. There is a smell of old laundry detergent from the outlet.
The S.W.O (surface water overflow) which discharges into Kyd Brook has a known mis connection, this has been reported. At various there has been the smell and water discolouration of laundry detergent, today there was a sewage smell coming from the S.W.O.
This monitoring site has a S.W.O (surface water overflow) discharging into Kyd Brook, this S.W.O has a missed connection that has been reported to Thames water but to date this has not been found. The ammonia result was flashing 3, please see photos.
There is a known missed connection on this SWO/surface water overflow. I have never seen the water like this before it was almost orange and higher than normal.
There is a surface water overflow at this site and it is also downstream from a known combined sewer overflow.
There is a surface water overflow at this site that discharges into Kyd Brook. There is detergent coming from the S.W.O This has been reported to Thames Water ref 00619975