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Jarrow and Gateshead East

Polluted by sewage 910 times in 2025 lasting 3,554 hours

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Live data for Jarrow and Gateshead East in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 3,538 hours of sewage overflows, from 104 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Jarrow and Gateshead East in 2025

39 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
910 sewage dumps
3,554 hours duration
That's 4.94 months. On average 2.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Jarrow and Gateshead East 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 River Tyne Saline Estuary WAGONWAY ROAD PUMPING STATION 100 1,085 100
Northumbrian Water Don TYNESIDE CSO (NO B5/301) 121 490 100
Northumbrian Water River Don SOUTH SHIELDS INTERCEPTOR BS/104 90 467 100
Northumbrian Water River Don TYNESIDE CSO B5/201 63 334 99.9
Northumbrian Water Don Estuary JARROW ROAD PUMPING STATION 27 192 100
Northumbrian Water River Don STATION ROAD CSO G020 32 179 94.8
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary PRINCE CONSORT ROAD PUMPING STATION 39 109 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Don CSO AT BEDESWAY 39 106 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO AT REAR OF ORCHID CRESCENT 30 92 100
Northumbrian Water Don CEMETERY ROAD CSO 15 78 99.8
Northumbrian Water River Don ROMAN ROAD CSO 17 59 99.5
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary INTERNATIONAL PAINTS PUMPING STN. 34 57 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary LOW HEWORTH LANE PUMPING STATION 17 38 96.5
Northumbrian Water Don WEST BOLDON CSO (NO 4) 18 36 96
Northumbrian Water Monkton Burn SPRINGWELL PARK CSO 16 34 97.4
Northumbrian Water Don NEW ROAD CSO 10 32 100
Northumbrian Water River Don EDEN WALK CSO 26 29 89.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary BLACKETT STREET 11 18 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO AT CROMWELL ROAD 21 18 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne MANOR GARDENS CSO 15 15 94
Northumbrian Water Don WEST OF HEDWORTH LANE CSO 33 13 93.6
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary BLACKETT STREET CSO 10 11 89.8
Northumbrian Water Don DON VALLEY PUMPING STATION 7 11 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary REYROLLE SEWER (NORTH) CSO 17 10 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne REYROLLE SEWER (SOUTH) CSO 21 6 98.5
Northumbrian Water River Don BROOKE AVENUE (NO20) STY049 CSO 7 6 97.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary JANADAB CSO 22 4 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WILLIAM STREET CSO 15 3 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO AT SW CORNER OF ALLOTMENT GARDE 4 3 99.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary HEWORTH SHORE CSO 2 2 99.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne LAMPORT CSO 10 2 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO AT STONEYGATE LANE 8 1 95.1
Northumbrian Water River Don REAR 3 ERNEST STREET CSO 3 0 94.6
Northumbrian Water River Don BOLDON COLLIERY SOUTH (N0'7) CSO 2 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne TYNE STREET SPS 2 0 99.5
Northumbrian Water River Don JARROW HEDWORTH CSO 23 2 0 99.5
Northumbrian Water Don GRASSBANKS CSO 1 0 98.8
Northumbrian Water River Don JARROW HEDWORTH CSO 20 2 0 89.7
Northumbrian Water Don NORTH ROAD NO1 1 0 79.9
Northumbrian Water River Don BOLDON COLLIERY FENWICK STREET CSO 0 0 99.4
Northumbrian Water River Tyne FAIRFIELD INDUSTRIAL PARK SPS 0 0 96.9
Northumbrian Water Monkton Burn, River Don MARINE DRIVE PUMPING STATION 0 0 93.3
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary NEST ROAD CSO 0 0 94.3
Northumbrian Water River Don REAR OF 92 & 94 CHARLES STREET CSO 0 0 99.8
Northumbrian Water Don WEST BOLDON CSO NO 3 0 0 99.6
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary WOODGATE GDNS/MARCONI 2 CSO 0 0 80.9
Northumbrian Water Don WOODWYND CSO 0 0 99.6

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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