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Wallsend

Polluted by sewage 934 times in 2025 lasting 5,005 hours

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Totals for Wallsend in 2025

30 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

934 sewage dumps

5,005 hours duration

That's 6.95 months. On average 2.6 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Wallsend 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	Wallsend Burn Estuarine Waters	BURN CLOSES CSO	54	200	79
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	DAVY BANK PUMPING STATION	56	179	96.1
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	NEW WELBECK ROAD PUMPING STATION	34	164	92.7
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	PRINCE CONSORT ROAD PUMPING STATION	39	109	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	WINCOMBLEE C PUMPING STATION	22	97	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Tyne	STEPHENSON STREET PUMPING STATION	30	77	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	Wallsend Burn Saline Estuary	CHURCH BANK CSO	26	37	99.5
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	WINCOMBLEE ROAD CSO	29	34	65.8
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	STATION ROAD/SWAN HUNTERS CSO	23	27	55.2
Northumbrian Water	Wallsend Burn	KILLINGWORTH WAGONWAY CSO	20	27	99.1
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	BLACKETT STREET	11	18	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	CSO NEPTUNE YARD NO.1 OUTFALL	12	12	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	BLACKETT STREET CSO	10	11	89.8
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	CSO WELBECK ROAD & BATH STREET	23	10	94.8
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	REYROLLE SEWER (NORTH) CSO	17	10	99.9
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	LAMPORT CSO	10	2	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	POTTER STREET PUMPING STATION	2	1	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	PERCY MAIN CSO	5	1	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	BENTON WAY OUTFALL NO 2 CSO	2	0	98.3
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	TYNE STREET SPS	2	0	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	NEW YORK CSO	1	0	95.8
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	HOWDON (ADJACENT A19 ROUNDABOUT)CSO	1	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	MINDRUM TERRACE CSO	0	0	96.6

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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