South Shields

Polluted by sewage 540 times in 2024 lasting 2,269 hours

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Live data for South Shields in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:15 AM) there has been 264 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for South Shields in 2024

17 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
540 sewage dumps
2,269 hours duration
That's 3.15 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for South Shields, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Shields in 2024. 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 CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuarine Waters ELDON STREET CSO 66 354 96.6
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuarine Waters TUDOR ROAD CSO 58 262 94.4
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuarine Waters TEMPLE STREET CSO 63 232 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuarine Waters WAPPING STREET CSO 53 229 99.5
Northumbrian Water River Tyne CORONATION ST CSO 40 200 97.2
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary HARTON LOW STAITHES CSO 41 179 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SMITH STREET PUMPING STATION 18 155 100
Northumbrian Water Don BURDON ROAD CSO 36 147 90
Northumbrian Water Tyne PILOT STREET PUMPING STATION 33 127 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea WHITBURN STEEL PS 32 123 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea REDWELL SEAGE PUMPING STATION 19 107 79.3
Northumbrian Water Don EAST BOLDON CSO NO 6 46 68 97.3
Northumbrian Water River Don HEATON GARDENS PUMPING STATION 7 44 97.1
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WEST HOLBORN SOUTH CSO 16 21 92.6
Northumbrian Water Don JUNCTION LANGHOLME AVENUE & 7 6 97.2
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary HARTON LOW STAITHES (MILL DAM) CSO 2 5 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea WHITBURN STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 3 0 95.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary MITRE PLACE CSO 0 0 97.8

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. This 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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