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Blaydon and Consett

Polluted by sewage 1,298 times in 2025 lasting 3,455 hours

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Live data for Blaydon and Consett in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 3,927 hours of sewage overflows, from 184 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Blaydon and Consett in 2025

71 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
1,298 sewage dumps
3,455 hours duration
That's 4.8 months. On average 3.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Blaydon and Consett in 2025. 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Stockerley Burn, CROOKHALL STW 95 404 99.5
Northumbrian Water River Derwent CONSETT STW 46 304 99.9
Northumbrian Water Leapmill Burn BURNOPFIELD CSO 48 265 95.1
Northumbrian Water River Derwent LOCKHAUGH STW 67 238 99.75
Northumbrian Water River Derwent RIVERSIDEWAY CSO 29 195 74.2
Northumbrian Water Tyne BLAYDON METALS NO 2 CSO 36 159 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary BLAYDON METALS NO 1 CSO 34 157 97.8
Northumbrian Water Pont Burn HAMSTERLEY MILL PUMPING STATION 48 135 93.3
Northumbrian Water River Tyne CLARA VALE SPS 36 120 98.8
Northumbrian Water River Derwent EBCHESTER SPS 32 119 100
Northumbrian Water River Derwent ARMONSIDE RD CONNOLLY TERRACE CSO 22 99 94.2
Northumbrian Water Low Spen Burn SMAILES LANE CSO G15 38 95 93.4
Northumbrian Water Dipton Burn DIPTON STW 52 90 98.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary BLAYDON BANK CSO 55 87 96.2
Northumbrian Water Stanley Burn SOUTH WYLAM PUMPING STATION 50 81 93.9
Northumbrian Water Derwent HAMSTERLEY COLLIERY PS 21 69 89.9
Northumbrian Water Smallhope Burn BUTSFIELD LANE CSO DER092 46 69 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuarine Waters STATION BANK CSO 40 65 98.7
Northumbrian Water Backstone Beck River Derwe CUTLERS HALL ROAD (NO. 29) STORM 13 60 100
Northumbrian Water Leapmill Burn BUSTY BANK CSO 44 59 95.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne FACTORY ROAD CSO 8 54 88.4
Northumbrian Water Dipton Burn DIPTON STW 11 54 98.3
Northumbrian Water River Derwent RGIL LOCKHAUGH RD & SHRBURN PRK CSO 25 46 99.5
Northumbrian Water Pont Burn PONT LANE A CSO 12 42 95.4
Northumbrian Water River Derwent PENNINE VIEW CSO 11 42 99.6
Northumbrian Water Derwent GREEN BRIDGE CSO (DER 137) 13 39 100
Northumbrian Water Barlow Burn HIGH SPEN PUMPING STATION 33 37 96.8
Northumbrian Water Smallhope Burn EAST OF KNITSLEY GRANGE FARM CSO 18 31 99.4
Northumbrian Water Dene Burn CONSETT ACADEMY SOUTH CSO DER090 26 28 99.6
Northumbrian Water River Tyne HAUGH LANE CSO 5 26 62.7
Northumbrian Water Derwent STATION ROAD CSO G020 15 22 93.9
Northumbrian Water River Derwent CHARE BANK CSO 19 18 100
Northumbrian Water Derwent, DIPWOOD ROAD CSO GO16 23 17 100
Northumbrian Water Pont Burn PONT B CSO 13 17 100
Northumbrian Water Backstone Burn CHURCH ROAD CSO 19 16 100
Northumbrian Water Backgill Burn FELLSIDE CSO (DER 174) 13 15 100
Northumbrian Water Dene Burn BERRY EDGE ROAD CSO DER096 21 10 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Derwent SHOTLEY BRIDGE CSO DER0004 12 9 99.5
Northumbrian Water Spen Burn ASH TREE LANE CSO 14 8 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CROFTDALE ROAD CSO 14 5 99.7
Northumbrian Water Derwent, HIGH FRIARSIDE CSO 17 4 92.5
Northumbrian Water Derwent OLD DERWENT BRIDGE CSO 4 3 97.7
Northumbrian Water Blackstone Burn River Derwent VINDOMORA VILLAS CSO 8 3 100
Northumbrian Water Dene Burn CASTLESIDE 8 1 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne CRAWCROOK LANE CSO 6 1 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Derwent CHOPWELL ROAD CSO 5 1 93.4
Northumbrian Water Dene Burn MOORSIDE CSO DER002 4 1 73.1
Northumbrian Water Tyne ADDISON VILLAGE CSO UNIT 3 4 1 87.8
Northumbrian Water Tinkerhill Gill, DURHAM ROAD REF NO 36 11 1 98.8
Northumbrian Water Derwent, BRIARDENE 4 0 99.1
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary CSO AT CHURCH DENE 5 0 91.7
Northumbrian Water Stockerley Burn, SIXTH ST SSO 4 0 88
Northumbrian Water Tongue Burn CHOPWELL PARK FOOTPATH CSO 4 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water Clvrt Watercrse River Tyne STELLA ROAD CSO 5 0 89.2
Northumbrian Water Backstone Burn QUEENSWAY CSO 5 0 94.9
Northumbrian Water Barlow Burn EAST FARM CSO 1 0 99.8
Northumbrian Water River Derwent TAY STREET CSO 2 0 99.4
Northumbrian Water Backstone Burn REAR 39 CUTLERS HALL ROAD 3 0 99.3
Northumbrian Water Backstone Burn CONSETT OAP HALL CSO 3 0 99.5
Northumbrian Water Derwent Estuary SHIBDON ROAD CSO 1 0 98.2
Northumbrian Water Tongue Burn BLACKHALL MILL PUMPING STATION 3 0 88.5
Northumbrian Water Spen Burn HIGH SPEN CSO ROWLANDS GILL 6 3 0 99.5
Northumbrian Water Pont Burn ST IVES ROAD CSO 2 0 97.2
Northumbrian Water Leapmill Burn BUSTY BANK STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 2 0 98.4
Northumbrian Water Iveston Burn IVESTON LANE CSO 1 0 92.2
Northumbrian Water Stockerley Burn, SOUTH STREET STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 1 0 93.6
Northumbrian Water Tongue Burn SOUTH TERRACE CSO (G003) 1 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Stockerley Burn 5 SOUTH STREET CSO, CROOKHALL 1 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water Snows Green Burn 85 SNOWS GREEN ROAD 1 0 99.4
Northumbrian Water River Derwent WEST LANE SCHOOL CSO 1 0 77.1
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary SUMMERHILL CSO 1 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary BLAYDON BURN WAGONWAY CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Leapmill Burn BUSTY BANK CSO 0 0 99.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne COCHRANE STREET CSO 0 0 99.4
Northumbrian Water Howden Burn CONSETT IRON WORKS 0 0 98.2
Northumbrian Water Blaydon Burn CSO 28 BEWESHILL CRESCENT 0 0 86.8
Northumbrian Water Ebchester Burn DENECREST CSO 0 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water Derwent DERWENT CARAVAN PARK PUMPING STN 0 0 94.1
Northumbrian Water Derwent DERWENTSIDE HOUSE CSO 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary GAS LANE CSO 0 0 85.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne GREENSIDE CSO 0 0 84.3
Northumbrian Water Barlow Burn HIGH SPEN CSO STROTHERS ROAD 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Derwent PARKGATE FARM CSO 0 0 99.6
Northumbrian Water Pont Burn PONT BUNGALOWS 0 0 93.9
Northumbrian Water Tinkerhill Gill SHOTLEY BRIDGE HOSPITAL CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Derwent SNOWS GREEN ROAD CSO (DER010) 0 0 98.2
Northumbrian Water Backstone Burn ST MARYS PRIMARY SCHOOL CSO 0 0 98.9
Northumbrian Water Derwent, River WHISKEY JACKS PUMPING STATION 0 0 62.9

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.

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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