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Polluted by sewage 840 times in 2024 lasting 6,502 hours
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:30 AM) there has been 6,936 hours of sewage overflows
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Tynemouth, 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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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Tynemouth 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 2 of the total 28 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northumbrian Water | River Tyne Saline Estuary | HOWDON STW | 457 | 4,625 | 99.73 |
| Northumbrian Water | Tyne | TYNE VIEW TERRACE PS | 86 | 865 | 99.8 |
| Northumbrian Water | Brierdene Burn | BEEHIVE CSO | 51 | 226 | 98 |
| Northumbrian Water | Tyne Estuary | NEW QUAY CSO NC058 | 33 | 155 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | BRIERDENE PUMPING STATION | 39 | 149 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Tyne Estuary | FISH QUAY CSO | 28 | 133 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Tyne Estuary | BEDFORD STREET CSO NTY057 | 28 | 100 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Tyne Estuary | NORTH GROYNE PUMPING STATION | 23 | 69 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Brierdene Burn | TEN ACRE FARM COMBINED SEWER OVERFL | 7 | 48 | 95.2 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Tyne | HOWDON ROAD CSO (NTY 040) | 9 | 27 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Tyne | UNION QUAY CSO | 14 | 26 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Tyne Estuary | PERCY MAIN CSO | 10 | 17 | 97 |
| Northumbrian Water | Tyne Estuary | BURDON MAIN ROW CSO | 15 | 16 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Tyne Estuary | CSO AT MANHOLE 49 HOWDEN ROAD | 10 | 9 | 51.6 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | MINI GOLF CSO | 4 | 7 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | DUKES WALK CSO (NTY031) (A63) | 3 | 7 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | SHARPNESS POINT PS | 3 | 5 | 42.4 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Tyne Saline Estuary | HOWDON STW | 5 | 4 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Tyne Estuary | SWADDLES HOLE CSO | 3 | 2 | 80.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | BROWNS POINT CSO | 5 | 2 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | West End Park Burn | WATERVILLE ROAD CSO | 5 | 1 | 85.3 |
| Northumbrian Water | Tyne Estuary | NEW YORK CSO | 1 | 0 | 80.2 |
| Northumbrian Water | Tyne Estuary | MINDRUM TERRACE CSO | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | WATTS SLOPE HIGH LEVEL CSO (A56) | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | DUKES WALK CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | NORTH PARADE HIGH LEVEL CSO (A52) | 0 | 0 | 4.1 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | PERCY ROAD HIGH LEVEL CSO | 0 | 0 | 92.2 |
| Northumbrian Water | North Sea | NORTH POINT CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales, and Scottish Water
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