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Gateshead

Polluted by sewage 1,807 times in 2025 lasting 5,504 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Totals for Gateshead in 2025

75 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

1,807 sewage dumps

5,504 hours duration

That's 7.64 months. On average 5 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Gateshead 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 place 2 of the total 88 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.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	GLASSHOUSE STREET PS	128	1,353	96
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	SPILLERS PUMPING STATION	57	255	100
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	SOUTH SHORE ROAD CSO	86	247	97.5
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	BROAD CHARE CSO	43	246	39.8
Northumbrian Water	River Team	THE GREEN MARKET CSO	81	201	96.2
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	SOUTH SHORE ROAD EAST PUMPING STN	62	190	100
Northumbrian Water	Tyne	MARKET LANE CSO	51	177	98.5
Northumbrian Water	Team	CSO ON WHICKHAM AND GATESHEAD SEWER	42	157	100
Northumbrian Water	River Team	CSO AT TEAM STREET	17	148	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	DUNSTON FLOUR MILL (WEST) CSO	14	146	91
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	MILK MARKET PUMPING STATION	29	145	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	TEAMS CSO JOHNSON STREET E17-105	48	143	99.75
Northumbrian Water	River Team	STAITHES ROAD CSO	30	135	97.8
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	OUSEBURN WEST PS	38	129	88.4
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CSO	22	110	35.6
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	CSO REDHEUGH BRIDGE	46	101	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Black Burn	PINEWOOD GARDENS CSO	39	96	87.2
Northumbrian Water	Tyne	METROCENTRE GREEN CAR PARK PS (E7)	29	93	100
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	FOUNDRY LANE NO 3 CSO	43	92	98
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	CSO AT REAR OF ORCHID CRESCENT	30	92	100
Northumbrian Water	Team	BENSHAM SIDINGS CSO	32	81	92.8
Northumbrian Water	Team,	LOW FELL CSO	40	78	92.1
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	SWINBURNE STREET CSO	50	67	91
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	ROSE STREET CSO	23	66	99.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuary	CALDBECK AVE POTTERY BANK CSO	21	66	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Team	LAMESLEY SSO	15	60	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Team Estuarine Waters	BENSHAM CSO	16	59	99.4
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	INTERNATIONAL PAINTS PUMPING STN.	34	57	100
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	HIGH WEST STREET CSO (G066)	43	55	68.4
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	CSO WATER STREET	26	54	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Team	SEVENTH AVENUE CSO	36	49	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Don	4 AYCLIFFE AVENUE CSO	19	49	93.6
Northumbrian Water	River Team Saline Estuary	CORMORANT DRIVE CSO	10	47	96.8
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	CSO DUNN STREET	26	46	99.8
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	LOW HEWORTH LANE PUMPING STATION	17	38	96.5
Northumbrian Water	Ouse Burn Estuary	LIME STREET/CUT BANK (2)	15	37	94.7
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	SOUTH BENWELL ROAD CSO	17	34	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Team	VICTORIA RD AT SANDOWN GARDENS CSO	22	34	99.4
Northumbrian Water	Team	NO2 ESKDALE GARDENS CSO	35	33	66.9
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	ALBANY ROAD/SALTMEADOWS ROAD CSO	25	28	100
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	THE SWIRLE CSO	19	25	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuary	CALDBECK CL BELMONT ST ANTHONYS CSO	23	19	100
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	CSO AT CROMWELL ROAD	21	18	100
Northumbrian Water	Team,	CHOWDENE CSO	20	15	99.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	MANOR GARDENS CSO	15	15	94
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	CSO FORTH BANKS	17	15	96.7
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	OUSEBURN EAST PS	12	15	98.6
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	ATKINSON ROAD CSO	19	9	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	EAST STREET WAS SWINBURN ST END CSO	13	5	83.1
Northumbrian Water	Longacre Burn	BLACK LANE CSO	12	4	95.7
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	ESSEX CLOSE CSO	10	4	90.2
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	AMELIA CLOSE CSO - C49/102	11	4	100
Northumbrian Water	Team	EASTERN AVENUE CSO	11	4	90.3
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	JANADAB CSO	22	4	100
Northumbrian Water	Ouse Burn Estuary	FOUNDRY LANE NO1 CSO	8	4	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Team	WOODFORD NO 22 STORM OVERFLOW	26	3	91.2
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	CSO AT SW CORNER OF ALLOTMENT GARDE	4	3	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	TUTHILL STAIRS CSO	15	3	97.3
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	HEWORTH SHORE CSO	2	2	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	WEST VIEW CSO	7	1	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	DEAN STREET CSO	2	1	100
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	CSO AT STONEYGATE LANE	8	1	95.1
Northumbrian Water	Team, River	BENSHAM HOSPITAL CSO	6	1	97.1
Northumbrian Water	Black Burn	ELMWOOD GARDENS	9	1	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	THE OVAL PUMPING STATION	7	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Don	LANCHESTER AVENUE CSO	5	0	98.4
Northumbrian Water	Oxclose Burn	STONEY LANE CSO	5	0	92.9
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	CALDBECK AVENUE/POTTERY BANK CSO	4	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	SCOTSWOOD NO1 SPS	4	0	85.4
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	RIVERSIDE PARK WEST CSO	5	0	88.6
Northumbrian Water	River Team	SMITHY LANE CSO	2	0	94.4
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	RIVERSDALE ROAD CSO	2	0	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	QUAYSIDE (HILLGATE STREET CSO)	1	0	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Don	GRASSBANKS CSO	1	0	98.8
Northumbrian Water	River Team	CSO REAR 11 ST AUSTELL GARDENS	2	0	98
Northumbrian Water	Tyne	NEWTON STREET CSO	0	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	PIPEWELLGATE PUMPING STATION	0	0	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	SALTMEADOWS PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Black Burn	SOUTHFIELD ROAD CSO	0	0	97.4
Northumbrian Water	Black Burn	WASHINGWELL SCHOOL CSO	0	0	98.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	FAIRFIELD INDUSTRIAL PARK SPS	0	0	96.9
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	NEST ROAD CSO	0	0	94.3
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	WOODGATE GDNS/MARCONI 2 CSO	0	0	80.9
Northumbrian Water	Don	WOODWYND CSO	0	0	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	CLUMBER STREET CSO	0	0	97.3
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	MICHEL BEARINGS NORTH CSO	0	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	QUAYSIDE/ST LAWRENCE ROAD CSO	0	0	97.2
Northumbrian Water	Don	SHERATON CSO	0	0	99.7

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.

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