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South Shields

Polluted by sewage 335 times in 2025 lasting 987 hours

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Live data for South Shields in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 694 hours of sewage overflows, from 32 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for South Shields in 2025

16 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
335 sewage dumps
987 hours duration
That's 1.37 months. 6.4 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Shields 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 Estuarine Waters ELDON STREET CSO 50 175 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuarine Waters TUDOR ROAD CSO 42 148 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuarine Waters WAPPING STREET CSO 58 147 90.3
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuarine Waters TEMPLE STREET CSO 42 112 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne CORONATION ST CSO 19 111 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary HARTON LOW STAITHES CSO 24 72 99.9
Northumbrian Water Don BURDON ROAD CSO 16 61 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea WHITBURN STEEL PS 12 42 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne PILOT STREET PUMPING STATION 14 42 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SMITH STREET PUMPING STATION 5 32 99.6
Northumbrian Water Don EAST BOLDON CSO NO 6 38 30 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WEST HOLBORN SOUTH CSO 9 7 98.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary HARTON LOW STAITHES (MILL DAM) CSO 1 1 99.7
Northumbrian Water Don JUNCTION LANGHOLME AVENUE & 2 0 99.3
Northumbrian Water North Sea WHITBURN STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 2 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Don HEATON GARDENS PUMPING STATION 1 0 78.2
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary MITRE PLACE CSO 0 0 97.3
Northumbrian Water North Sea REDWELL SEAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 94.9

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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