For a long time High Halstow has been saddled with the problem of inadequate drainage. At one time, when the village was small, sewage treatment was dealt with by a treatment plant at the bottom of White Road deep in the woods and now part of the RSPB Northward Hill holdings directly adjacent to the Northward Hill SSSI National Nature Reserve.
Some time ago the direction of the sewage flow in the village was diverted away from the White Road treatment plant towards a pumping station in Medway ave. Residents of Medway Aue will attest to the times there has been a problem here with the inconvenience of sewage lorries travelling back and forth at all times of the day and night.
We hope that in the future that developers and the water authority will be aware of exacerbating the sewage problem and make sufficient sustainable changes to the way our sewage is treated.