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Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend

Polluted by sewage 907 times in 2025 lasting 3,317 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 3,148 hours of sewage overflows, from 76 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend in 2025

35 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
907 sewage dumps
3,317 hours duration
That's 4.61 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 Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend 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 1 of the total 37 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary GLASSHOUSE STREET PS 128 1,353 96
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary SPILLERS PUMPING STATION 57 255 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary WHITE STREET STATION ROAD CSO 66 202 100
Northumbrian Water Wallsend Burn Estuarine Waters BURN CLOSES CSO 54 200 79
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary DAVY BANK PUMPING STATION 56 179 96.1
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary NEW WELBECK ROAD PUMPING STATION 34 164 92.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary OUSEBURN WEST PS 38 129 88.4
Northumbrian Water River Tyne NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CSO 22 110 35.6
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WINCOMBLEE C PUMPING STATION 22 97 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary FOUNDRY LANE NO 3 CSO 43 92 98
Northumbrian Water Tyne STEPHENSON STREET PUMPING STATION 30 77 99.5
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary CALDBECK AVE POTTERY BANK CSO 21 66 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary WESTERN ROAD/ROSEHILL ROAD P ST 23 46 61.2
Northumbrian Water Tyne POINT PLEASANT PUMPING STATION 16 38 100
Northumbrian Water Wallsend Burn Saline Estuary CHURCH BANK CSO 26 37 99.5
Northumbrian Water Ouse Burn Estuary LIME STREET/CUT BANK (2) 15 37 94.7
Northumbrian Water Wallsend Burn HEATON CSO CORNEL RD 35 37 99
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WINCOMBLEE ROAD CSO 29 34 65.8
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary STATION ROAD/SWAN HUNTERS CSO 23 27 55.2
Northumbrian Water Wallsend Burn KILLINGWORTH WAGONWAY CSO 20 27 99.1
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary THE SWIRLE CSO 19 25 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary CALDBECK CL BELMONT ST ANTHONYS CSO 23 19 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary OUSEBURN EAST PS 12 15 98.6
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO NEPTUNE YARD NO.1 OUTFALL 12 12 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO WELBECK ROAD & BATH STREET 23 10 94.8
Northumbrian Water River Tyne PHILLIPSON STREET ROSEHILL CSO 17 6 100
Northumbrian Water Ouse Burn Estuary FOUNDRY LANE NO1 CSO 8 4 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary WHITE STREET STATION ROAD CSO 13 2 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary POTTER STREET PUMPING STATION 2 1 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary THE OVAL PUMPING STATION 7 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary BENTON WAY OUTFALL NO 2 CSO 2 0 98.3
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CALDBECK AVENUE/POTTERY BANK CSO 4 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary RIVERSIDE PARK WEST CSO 5 0 88.6
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WINCOMBLEE B PUMPING STATION 1 0 99.4
Northumbrian Water River Tyne HOWDON (ADJACENT A19 ROUNDABOUT)CSO 1 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary QUAYSIDE/ST LAWRENCE ROAD CSO 0 0 97.2
Northumbrian Water River Tyne STATION ROAD/WHITE STREET CSO 0 0 97

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.

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