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Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,068 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 944 hours , potential overflows 143 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

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Daily Data

Jan - 142 hours , 418 offline
Feb - 477 hours , 9 offline
Mar - 185 hours
Apr - 17 hours , 87 potential
May - 135 hours , 56 potential
Jun - 84 hours
Jul - 9 hours , 245 offline
Aug - 16 hours , 271 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Northumbrian Water BROAD CHARE CSO Tyne Estuary 44 214h 12m -
Northumbrian Water DENTON ROAD CSO NC027 River Tyne 38 138h 32m -
Northumbrian Water SILVER LONNEN CSO (NC030) River Tyne Estuary 32 98h 50m 418 h
Northumbrian Water SCOTSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION NO 4 Tyne Saline Estuary 26 83h 48m -
Northumbrian Water CSO REDHEUGH BRIDGE Tyne Estuary 26 80h 56m 9 h
Northumbrian Water SCOTSWOOD ROAD NO3 SPS River Tyne 19 66h 34m 517 h
Northumbrian Water CSO WATER STREET Tyne Estuary 17 56h 32m -
Northumbrian Water TYNE VIEW CSO Lemington Gut 20 54h 32m -
Northumbrian Water SOUTH BENWELL ROAD CSO River Tyne 8 54h 30m -
Northumbrian Water MILK MARKET PUMPING STN. Tyne Estuary 19 53h 2m -
Northumbrian Water BURWELL AVENUE CSO River Tyne Saline Estuary 15 51h 8m -
Northumbrian Water CSO DUNN STREET Tyne Estuary 13 36h 15m -
Northumbrian Water NEWBURN HAUGH/RIVERSDALE WAY P STN River Tyne Saline Estuary 3 35h 18m -
Northumbrian Water WOOD GROVE CSO (NC029) River Tyne Estuary 18 20h 2m 143 h
Northumbrian Water CSO FORTH BANKS Tyne Estuary 5 4h 54m -
Northumbrian Water ATKINSON ROAD CSO Tyne Estuary 5 3h 56m -
Northumbrian Water ESSEX CLOSE CSO Tyne Estuary 5 3h 30m -
Northumbrian Water AMELIA CLOSE CSO - C49/102 Tyne Estuary 5 2h 46m -
Northumbrian Water DENE AVENUE CSO NC051 Sugley Dene 8 2h 42m -
Northumbrian Water WEST VIEW CSO Tyne Estuary 3 1h 36m -
Northumbrian Water DEAN STREET (HIGH LEVEL) CSO River Tyne 1 1h 14m -
Northumbrian Water TUTHILL STAIRS CSO River Tyne 4 1h 11m -
Northumbrian Water DENTON DENE NORTH OF WEST ROAD CSO River Tyne 5 0h 53m -
Northumbrian Water SCOTSWOOD NO1 SPS River Tyne 2 0h 41m -
Northumbrian Water BURNSIDE CSO Sugley Dene 3 0h 36m -
Northumbrian Water Scottswood Road (C49-104) NWL name River Tyne 4 0h 18m -
Northumbrian Water SCOTSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION NO 2 River Tyne 2 0h 1m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water CSO 32 WALBOTTLE ROAD New Burn 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water SCOTSWOOD BRIDGE CSO Tyne Saline Estuary 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Scotswood Road Combined Sewer Overflow (C43 - 105) River Tyne Via A Surface Water Sewer 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water CLUMBER STREET CSO Tyne Estuary 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water BROADWAY JUNCTION NORWOOD ROAD CSO Sugley Dene 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water BROADWAY ROAD CSO Tidal River Tyne 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water MICHEL BEARINGS NORTH CSO River Tyne 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
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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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.