Sunderland

Polluted by sewage 909 times in 2024 lasting 3,200 hours

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

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Totals for Sunderland in 2024

30 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

909 sewage dumps

3,200 hours duration

That's 4.44 months. On average 2.5 times a day

Change Over Time

Waterways in Sunderland

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sunderland 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 2 of the total 32 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	HENDON PRELIMINARY TREATMENT WORKS	103	553	100
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	River Wear	DEPTFORD PUMPING STATION	46	211	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	GOLDEN LION SPS	42	205	100
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	BACK LODGE TERRACE CSO	49	189	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear Estuary	BODLEWELL LANE CSO	33	149	66.5
Northumbrian Water	Wear	NORTH HYLTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	34	143	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	LOW SOUTHWICK PUMPING STATION	58	140	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Wear	QUEEN ALEXANDRA PS	45	133	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	GILL CEMETERY CSO (SU061)	68	131	99.9
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	WHITBURN STEEL PS	32	123	100
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	RYHOPE SSO	42	114	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear Estuary	ST PETERS PUMPING STATION OUTFALL N	16	96	100
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	MAINSFORTH TERRACE CSO SU63	31	85	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Wear Estuary	POTTERY LANE PS	18	82	70.1
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	PALLION PUMPING STATION	50	76	100
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	CSO SALTERFEN SU47	20	46	31.3
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	GRANGETOWN CSO	34	44	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Wear Estuary	PRIESTLEY CRESCENT CSO	28	27	93.5
Northumbrian Water	Wear	HAY STREET CSO SU056	20	20	99.8
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	WELLINGTON LANE PUMPING STATION	14	17	86.7
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	CSO SUNDERLANS GAS WORKS	13	13	94.6
Northumbrian Water	Wear	KIER HARDY WAY	10	5	100
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn Via A Culvert	WEST PARK ESTATE CSO	6	3	100
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	ROKER STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW	1	1	21.2
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	SEABURN SOUTH CSO	1	1	94.1
Northumbrian Water	Wear	ST LUKES ROAD	5	1	100
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	SEABURN NORTH CSO	1	0	96.3
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	WHITBURN STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW	3	0	95.5
Northumbrian Water	Hendon Burn	BARLEY MOW PARK CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	EAST HENDON ROAD CSO	0	0	100

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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