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Polluted by sewage 547 times in 2024 lasting 2,644 hours
Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more
So far this year (as of Apr 30, 2025, 9:30 AM) there has been 411 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 Washington and Gateshead South, 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 Washington and Gateshead South 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 1 of the total 25 CSO 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 | Team | BIRTLEY STW | 98 | 722 | 99.95 |
| Northumbrian Water | Wear | WASHINGTON STW | 54 | 405 | 99.95 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Wear | FERRYBOAT LANE PUMPING STATION | 27 | 299 | 85.6 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Wear | CASTLETOWN WAY SPS | 59 | 277 | 99.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Team | LAMESLEY SSO | 30 | 190 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Wear | STATION ROAD CSO | 61 | 170 | 88.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | Team | SEVENTH AVENUE CSO | 51 | 159 | 99.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Usworth Burn | COACH ROAD EST CSO | 45 | 155 | 98.4 |
| Northumbrian Water | Wear | NORTH HYLTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION | 34 | 143 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Team | LANSBURY DRIVE CSO | 26 | 56 | 99.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Don | MANOR ROAD CSO | 18 | 38 | 99.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | Longacre Burn | BLACK LANE CSO | 11 | 7 | 96.8 |
| Northumbrian Water | Team | WOODFORD NO 22 STORM OVERFLOW | 14 | 4 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Don, | USWORTH HALL CSO | 4 | 3 | 92.6 |
| Northumbrian Water | Wear | CSO 200M WEST OF WALTON ROAD | 2 | 2 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Don | SHERATON CSO | 1 | 2 | 99.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | Oxclose Burn | STONEY LANE CSO | 5 | 2 | 99.8 |
| Northumbrian Water | Willows Pond | J F KENNEDY ESTATE CSO | 5 | 1 | 96.3 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Team | SMITHY LANE CSO | 2 | 0 | 98.3 |
| Northumbrian Water | Willows Pond | WASHINGTON VILLAGE CEMETRY CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | Oxclose Burn | PRINCESS ANNE PARK CSO | 0 | 0 | 85.3 |
| Northumbrian Water | Team | LADY PARK PUMPING STATION | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Northumbrian Water | Rowletch Burn | DURHAM ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | Biddick Burn | WORMHILL TERRACE CSO | 0 | 0 | 96.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | Rowletch Burn | SWINBURN PLACE 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
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.
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