Durham

Polluted by sewage 850 times in 2024 lasting 3,910 hours

Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Durham in 2024

35 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

850 sewage dumps

3,910 hours duration

That's 5.43 months. On average 2.3 times a day

Change Over Time

Waterways in Durham

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Durham 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 locality 3 of the total 47 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	Wear	BARKERS HAUGH STW	55	639	97.5
Northumbrian Water	River Browney	SNOWDONS FARM CSO	46	598	100
Northumbrian Water	Saltwell Gill	DURHAM UNIVERSITY STW	71	340	99.95
Northumbrian Water	Wear,	HIGH CARR ROAD CSO	80	272	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	FINCHALE VIEW	52	246	92.6
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	SANDS SYPHON SSO	45	238	88.3
Northumbrian Water	Browney	STONEBRIDGE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	69	237	99.5
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	MILLBURNGATE CSO	29	214	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	BARKERS HAUGH NO 8 CSO	42	211	92.6
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	FRANKLAND LANE CSO	17	152	38
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	ELVET SYPHON CSO	31	111	57
Northumbrian Water	Black Dene Burn	PITY ME SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	30	104	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	CHURCH STREET DU026	10	78	25.4
Northumbrian Water	Wear	PELAW WOOD SEWER, NO 1 BATHS BRIDGE	32	77	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Pelaw Wood Beck	LAUREL AVENUE CSO	32	59	100
Northumbrian Water	River Browney	GROVE TERRACE CSO DU005	37	58	98.2
Northumbrian Water	Old Durham Beck	SHINCLIFFE NO 2 PS	12	55	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	BARKERS HAUGH CSO NO. 10	28	40	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	CANTEBURY ROAD CSO	18	35	100
Northumbrian Water	River Browney	TOLL HOUSE ROAD CSO	29	33	99.2
Northumbrian Water	Pity Me Beck	PITY ME ROUNDABOUT CSO	16	26	93.1
Northumbrian Water	Pittington Beck	RENNYS LANE PUMPING STATION	11	19	100
Northumbrian Water	Goat'S Beck River Browney	DURHAM SKILL CENTRE CSO DU008	11	13	99.2
Northumbrian Water	Pittington Beck	STATION BANK (DU21)	11	7	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	SHINCLIFFE (A177) CSO	7	7	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	SALISBURY PS	3	7	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	HIGH ST CSO	2	5	97
Northumbrian Water	Wear	SHINCLIFFE SSO MANHOLE NO. 2	3	4	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Wear	LEAMSIDE CSO	1	4	96
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	WALKERGATE DURHAM CSO	7	4	84.1
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	CATHEDRAL BANKS CSO	3	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Wear/Pelaw Wood Beck	CATHEDRAL BANKS CSO	4	0	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	BARKERS HAUGH NO 5 CSO	3	0	97.7
Northumbrian Water	Wear	STOCKTON RD & QUARRY HEADS LN CSOs	2	0	94.3
Northumbrian Water	Wear	JUBILEE PLACE CSO	1	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Clvrtd River Wear	AINSLEY STREET CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Flass Burn	ATHERTON STREET CSO	0	0	96.9
Northumbrian Water	Wear	BARCLAYS A CSO ELVET	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Unnamed Of River Wear	BELMONT STW	0	0	0
Northumbrian Water	Relley Gill	BROOM PARK OLD WORKS CSO	0	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Pittington Beck	DEVONSHIRE ROAD EAST CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Pittington Beck	DEVONSHIRE ROAD WEST CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Pittington Beck	DRAGON LANE CSO	0	0	97.8
Northumbrian Water	Wear	FALLSWAY CSO (DU57)	0	0	98.8
Northumbrian Water	Pelaw Wood Beck	PELAW WOOD ST. GILES CLOSE CSO	0	0	93.5
Northumbrian Water	Redhouse Gill,	ROWAN DRIVE CSO (DU 52)	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	WADDINGTON STREET CSO	0	0	85.2

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.

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