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Totals for South Shields in 2024

30 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

934 sewage dumps

4,219 hours duration

That's 5.86 months. On average 2.6 times a day

Change Over Time

Waterways in South Shields

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Shields 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 all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Northumbrian Water	Don Estuary	JARROW ROAD PUMPING STATION	49	548	100
Northumbrian Water	River Don	STATION ROAD CSO G020	50	483	93.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuarine Waters	ELDON STREET CSO	66	354	96.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuarine Waters	TUDOR ROAD CSO	58	262	94.4
Northumbrian Water	River Don	CSO AT BEDESWAY	56	232	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuarine Waters	TEMPLE STREET CSO	63	232	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuarine Waters	WAPPING STREET CSO	53	229	99.5
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	CORONATION ST CSO	40	200	97.2
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	HARTON LOW STAITHES CSO	41	179	100
Northumbrian Water	Don	WEST BOLDON CSO (NO 4)	58	160	92.1
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	SMITH STREET PUMPING STATION	18	155	100
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	NEW QUAY CSO NC058	33	155	100
Northumbrian Water	Don	BURDON ROAD CSO	36	147	90
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	FISH QUAY CSO	28	133	100
Northumbrian Water	Tyne	PILOT STREET PUMPING STATION	33	127	100
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	REDWELL SEAGE PUMPING STATION	19	107	79.3
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	BEDFORD STREET CSO NTY057	28	100	100
Northumbrian Water	Don	NEW ROAD CSO	25	81	80.7
Northumbrian Water	River Don	BROOKE AVENUE (NO20) STY049 CSO	42	73	100
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	NORTH GROYNE PUMPING STATION	23	69	100
Northumbrian Water	River Don	HEATON GARDENS PUMPING STATION	7	44	97.1
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	HOWDON ROAD CSO (NTY 040)	9	27	100
Northumbrian Water	Don	WEST OF HEDWORTH LANE CSO	35	26	99.1
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	UNION QUAY CSO	14	26	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	WEST HOLBORN SOUTH CSO	16	21	92.6
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	BURDON MAIN ROW CSO	15	16	100
Northumbrian Water	Don	JUNCTION LANGHOLME AVENUE &	7	6	97.2
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	HARTON LOW STAITHES (MILL DAM) CSO	2	5	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Don	REAR 3 ERNEST STREET CSO	7	4	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuary	SWADDLES HOLE CSO	3	2	80.7
Northumbrian Water	River Don	BOLDON COLLIERY FENWICK STREET CSO	0	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Don	WEST BOLDON CSO NO 3	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	MITRE PLACE CSO	0	0	97.8

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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South Shields Polluted by sewage 934 times in 2024 lasting 4,219 hours

South Shields