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Live data for North Durham in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 4,138 hours of sewage overflows, from 185 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for North Durham in 2025

73 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

2,199 sewage dumps

5,128 hours duration

That's 7.12 months. On average 6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North Durham 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	Causey Burn	EAST TANFIELD STW	129	818	100
Northumbrian Water	Humble Burn	EDMONDSLEY STW	45	519	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Wear	CHESTER LE STREET STW	776	398	99.25
Northumbrian Water	Smallhope Burn	KNITSLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	41	279	99.7
Northumbrian Water	South Burn	SACRISTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	27	267	99.3
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	BEECHVILLE CSO	39	267	96.1
Northumbrian Water	Smallhope Burn	LANCHESTER STW	37	247	98.6
Northumbrian Water	Smallhope Burn	LYNWOOD HOUSE CSO DER44	53	185	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Black Dene Burn	PLAWSWORTH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	34	183	97.9
Northumbrian Water	Twizell Burn	KIMBERLEY GARDENS CSO (DER 82)	60	141	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn,	NIGHTINGALE PLACE CSO	58	140	98.8
Northumbrian Water	Unnamed Houghwell Burn	ST ANDREWS ROAD CSO	34	137	99.3
Northumbrian Water	Twizell Burn	HUSTLEDOWN STW	23	130	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	PELTON FELL ROAD 3 CSO CH14	45	127	98.8
Northumbrian Water	Farlieth Burn	PALM TERRACE CSO	21	126	99
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	LINDOM AVENUE CSO	16	104	100
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	HOLYHILL GARDENS EAST CSO	44	101	90.7
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	PARK ROAD CSO	21	86	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	SHIELDS ROAD CSO	25	73	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	MITCHEL TERRACE CSO	40	71	100
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	PELAW BANK CSO CH57	33	65	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	PELTON FELL ROAD CSO	22	64	100
Northumbrian Water	Lumley Park Burn	FLOATERS MILL PS CSO	18	62	100
Northumbrian Water	Smallhope Burn	RAILWAY SREET CSO	36	45	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	CSO ADJACENT 40 HOLLYHILL GARDENS	34	39	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn 9River Team	OUSTON VILLA FARM CSO	6	39	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	50 WOODSIDE GARDENS CSO	13	31	90.9
Northumbrian Water	Smallhope Burn	MOUNT PLEASANT CSO DER41	29	28	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Black Dene Burn	PLAWSWORTH CSO MH1	35	27	100
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn,	SOUTHFIELDS CSO	12	26	100
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	TANFIELD COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL CSO	8	24	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Houghwell Burn	OAKS FIELD CSO	7	24	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	SOUTH MOOR MEMORIAL PARK SSO	26	24	99.3
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	BEVERLEY GARDENS CSO	20	22	100
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	DURHAM ROAD CSO	22	17	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Ibbetsons' Sike	BURNHOPE P.S. CSO & CER	25	15	80.8
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	ELWIN PLACE CSO	14	14	99
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	HUSTLEDOWN ROAD CSO	17	12	99.2
Northumbrian Water	Wear	LUMLEY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	2	11	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	DUKE STREET CSO	20	10	99.3
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	HOPGARTH GARDENS CSO	7	10	99.2
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	DUNN STREET	8	9	98.9
Northumbrian Water	South Burn River Wear	HOLMHILL FIELD CSO CH043	8	8	97.4
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	RAILWAY GARDENS CSO DER047	15	8	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Dene Burn	A692 CSO	17	7	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	PARK ROAD NORTH CSO	13	7	98.6
Northumbrian Water	Blindy Burn	GRANGE VILLA CSO	1	6	98.5
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	TANFIELD TRUNK SEWER CSO	3	5	94.7
Northumbrian Water	Lumley Park Burn	BOURNMOOR SPS	1	5	100
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	WESLEY TERRACE CSO	8	5	96.8
Northumbrian Water	Lumley Park Burn	FORMER CASTLE DENE SDW SSO	1	5	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	LINTZ TERRACE CSO	8	4	97.8
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	THE MIDDLES CSO	54	3	98.3
Northumbrian Water	Urpeth Burn	STONY ROW CSO	10	3	98.7
Northumbrian Water	Broughs Gill	SCORERS LANE CSO	5	3	100
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	FRONT STREET CSO	9	2	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Blackdene Burn	KIMBLESWORTH CSO	14	1	83.9
Northumbrian Water	Of Wear Estuary	ASH MEADOWS CSO CHESTER LE STREET	5	1	99.3
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	CONE LANE (CHESTER NO 4) CSO	7	1	100
Northumbrian Water	Trip Of Stanley Burn	OLIVER STREET CSO	7	1	100
Northumbrian Water	Houghwell Burn	SOUTH LEIGH CSO	3	1	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Wharnley Burn	OPP OLD CASTLESIDE STW CSO	4	0	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Iddeston'S Sike	CRICKET GROUND HOLMSIDE LANE CSO	4	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn,	STATION LANE CSO	3	0	93.7
Northumbrian Water	Houghwell Burn	ARGYLE COURT CSO	1	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	WESTLINE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE CSO	1	0	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	CONGBURN BANK CSO	3	0	91.8
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	WALDRIDGE ROAD CSO CH 13	2	0	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	FRONT STREET CSO CH68	1	0	82.3
Northumbrian Water	Brough'S Gill	BACK LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	2	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	EAST VIEW CSO	1	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Stella Gill	PELTON CSO	2	0	99.3
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	THE OVAL CSO	4	0	93
Northumbrian Water	Carrmyers Burn	ANNFIELD PLAIN & STANLEY CSO 8	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Urpeth Burn	BEAMISH CSO	0	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Causey Burn	CAUSEY STW	0	0	96.2
Northumbrian Water	Culverted Waterc' To Black Bur	CHARLAW TERRACE CSO	0	0	98
Northumbrian Water	Wear	CHERRY BANKS CSO	0	0	97.4
Northumbrian Water	Black Burn River Wear	CROSS LANE CSO CH8	0	0	92.7
Northumbrian Water	Smallhope Burn	CSO MANOR COURT	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Browney,	HOLLINSIDE STW	0	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	KINGSMERE PS	0	0	99.4
Northumbrian Water	Wear	ROPERY LANE/EARDULPH AVE CSO	0	0	80.1
Northumbrian Water	Lumley Park Burn	ROSE CRESCENT CSO	0	0	98.4
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	SOUTH MOOR ROAD FOOTBALL CLUB CSO	0	0	98.3
Northumbrian Water	Houghwell Burn	STATION VILLAS CSO	0	0	96.2
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	THE BROOMS NORTH CSO	0	0	96
Northumbrian Water	South Burn	WARKWORTH DRIVE CSO	0	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	WHELDON TERRACE CSO	0	0	95.5
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	WHITE-LE-HEAD ALLOTMENTS SSO	0	0	93.8
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	WILLIAM STREET CSO	0	0	99.7

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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