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Don polluted by sewage 292 times in 2025 - lasting 815 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Don in 2025. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Don TYNESIDE CSO (NO B5/301) 121 490 100
Northumbrian Water Don CEMETERY ROAD CSO 15 78 99.8
Northumbrian Water Don BURDON ROAD CSO 16 61 100
Northumbrian Water Don 4 AYCLIFFE AVENUE CSO 19 49 93.6
Northumbrian Water Don WEST BOLDON CSO (NO 4) 18 36 96
Northumbrian Water Don NEW ROAD CSO 10 32 100
Northumbrian Water Don EAST BOLDON CSO NO 6 38 30 100
Northumbrian Water Don WEST OF HEDWORTH LANE CSO 33 13 93.6
Northumbrian Water Don MANOR ROAD CSO 10 11 98.8
Northumbrian Water Don DON VALLEY PUMPING STATION 7 11 100
Northumbrian Water Don JUNCTION LANGHOLME AVENUE & 2 0 99.3
Northumbrian Water Don GRASSBANKS CSO 1 0 98.8
Northumbrian Water Don, USWORTH HALL CSO 1 0 93.8
Northumbrian Water Don NORTH ROAD NO1 1 0 79.9
Northumbrian Water Don WEST BOLDON CSO NO 3 0 0 99.6
Northumbrian Water Don WOODWYND CSO 0 0 99.6
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.

This website is intended to provide an accurate representation of the Environment Agency data. The data is hard to use, and thus some errors may have been made. If you find something that is incorrect, please raise an issue at the GitHub issues page and we'll endeavour to fix it quickly.

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