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Jarrow

Polluted by sewage 1,156 times in 2025 lasting 6,413 hours

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Totals for Jarrow in 2025

32 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

1,156 sewage dumps

6,413 hours duration

That's 8.91 months. On average 3.2 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Jarrow 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	HOWDON STW	266	2,220	99.93
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	WAGONWAY ROAD PUMPING STATION	100	1,085	100
Northumbrian Water	Tyne	TYNE VIEW TERRACE PS	65	573	100
Northumbrian Water	Don	TYNESIDE CSO (NO B5/301)	121	490	100
Northumbrian Water	River Don	SOUTH SHIELDS INTERCEPTOR BS/104	90	467	100
Northumbrian Water	River Don	TYNESIDE CSO B5/201	63	334	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Don Estuary	JARROW ROAD PUMPING STATION	27	192	100
Northumbrian Water	River Don	STATION ROAD CSO G020	32	179	94.8
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuarine Waters	ELDON STREET CSO	50	175	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuarine Waters	TEMPLE STREET CSO	42	112	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Don	CSO AT BEDESWAY	39	106	100
Northumbrian Water	Don	CEMETERY ROAD CSO	15	78	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Tyne	STEPHENSON STREET PUMPING STATION	30	77	99.5
Northumbrian Water	River Don	ROMAN ROAD CSO	17	59	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	WESTERN ROAD/ROSEHILL ROAD P ST	23	46	61.2
Northumbrian Water	Tyne	POINT PLEASANT PUMPING STATION	16	38	100
Northumbrian Water	Monkton Burn	SPRINGWELL PARK CSO	16	34	97.4
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	SMITH STREET PUMPING STATION	5	32	99.6
Northumbrian Water	River Don	EDEN WALK CSO	26	29	89.7
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	BLACKETT STREET	11	18	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Don	WEST OF HEDWORTH LANE CSO	33	13	93.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	BLACKETT STREET CSO	10	11	89.8
Northumbrian Water	Don	DON VALLEY PUMPING STATION	7	11	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	WEST HOLBORN SOUTH CSO	9	7	98.5
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	PHILLIPSON STREET ROSEHILL CSO	17	6	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	WILLIAM STREET CSO	15	3	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	HOWDON STW	3	3	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	POTTER STREET PUMPING STATION	2	1	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	TYNE STREET SPS	2	0	99.5
Northumbrian Water	River Don	JARROW HEDWORTH CSO 20	2	0	89.7
Northumbrian Water	Don	NORTH ROAD NO1	1	0	79.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	HOWDON (ADJACENT A19 ROUNDABOUT)CSO	1	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Don	BOLDON COLLIERY FENWICK STREET CSO	0	0	99.4
Northumbrian Water	Monkton Burn, River Don	MARINE DRIVE PUMPING STATION	0	0	93.3
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	MITRE PLACE CSO	0	0	97.3

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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