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Sunderland Central

Polluted by sewage 433 times in 2025 lasting 1,197 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Sunderland Central in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,170 hours of sewage overflows, from 50 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Sunderland Central in 2025

16 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
433 sewage dumps
1,197 hours duration
That's 1.66 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sunderland Central 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 23 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. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water North Sea HENDON PRELIMINARY TREATMENT WORKS 70 279 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear DEPTFORD PUMPING STATION 46 200 99.5
Northumbrian Water Wear Estuary ST PETERS PUMPING STATION OUTFALL N 15 178 100
Northumbrian Water Wear Estuary BODLEWELL LANE CSO 24 107 83.6
Northumbrian Water Wear QUEEN ALEXANDRA PS 32 79 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Wear LOW SOUTHWICK PUMPING STATION 41 76 99.7
Northumbrian Water Wear GILL CEMETERY CSO (SU061) 46 71 92
Northumbrian Water North Sea CSO SALTERFEN SU47 42 68 99.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea RYHOPE SSO 30 48 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear PALLION PUMPING STATION 31 33 75.3
Northumbrian Water Wear HAY STREET CSO SU056 10 16 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea GRANGETOWN CSO 10 15 56.3
Northumbrian Water Wear Estuary PRIESTLEY CRESCENT CSO 15 12 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear WELLINGTON LANE PUMPING STATION 6 3 94.6
Northumbrian Water Wear KIER HARDY WAY 10 3 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea CSO SUNDERLANS GAS WORKS 5 2 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea BACK LODGE TERRACE CSO 0 0 96.6
Northumbrian Water Hendon Burn BARLEY MOW PARK CSO 0 0 89.3
Northumbrian Water North Sea EAST HENDON ROAD CSO 0 0 91.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea MAINSFORTH TERRACE CSO SU63 0 0 95.1
Northumbrian Water North Sea ROKER STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 0 0 0
Northumbrian Water North Sea SEABURN NORTH CSO 0 0 98.6
Northumbrian Water North Sea SEABURN SOUTH CSO 0 0 89.7

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.

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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