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River Don polluted by sewage 289 times in 2025 - lasting 1,184 hours

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Totals for River Don in 2025
13 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
289 sewage dumps
1,184 h duration
That's 1.64 months. 5.6 times a week, on average

Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
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 River Don STATION ROAD CSO G020 32 179 94.8
Northumbrian Water River Don CSO AT BEDESWAY 39 106 100
Northumbrian Water River Don ROMAN ROAD CSO 17 59 99.5
Northumbrian Water River Don EDEN WALK CSO 26 29 89.7
Northumbrian Water River Don BROOKE AVENUE (NO20) STY049 CSO 7 6 97.9
Northumbrian Water River Don LANCHESTER AVENUE CSO 5 0 98.4
Northumbrian Water River Don REAR 3 ERNEST STREET CSO 3 0 94.6
Northumbrian Water River Don BOLDON COLLIERY SOUTH (N0'7) CSO 2 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Don JARROW HEDWORTH CSO 23 2 0 99.5
Northumbrian Water River Don JARROW HEDWORTH CSO 20 2 0 89.7
Northumbrian Water River Don HEATON GARDENS PUMPING STATION 1 0 78.2
Northumbrian Water River Don BOLDON COLLIERY FENWICK STREET CSO 0 0 99.4
Northumbrian Water River Don REAR OF 92 & 94 CHARLES STREET CSO 0 0 99.8

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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