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River Tyne Saline Estuary polluted by sewage 840 times in 2025 - lasting 5,716 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

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 GLASSHOUSE STREET PS 128 1,353 96
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WAGONWAY ROAD PUMPING STATION 100 1,085 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary SPILLERS PUMPING STATION 57 255 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary NEW WELBECK ROAD PUMPING STATION 34 164 92.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary DUNSTON FLOUR MILL (WEST) CSO 14 146 91
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary OUSEBURN WEST PS 38 129 88.4
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WINCOMBLEE C PUMPING STATION 22 97 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary INTERNATIONAL PAINTS PUMPING STN. 34 57 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary BURWELL AVENUE CSO 23 54 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary LOW HEWORTH LANE PUMPING STATION 17 38 96.5
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WINCOMBLEE ROAD CSO 29 34 65.8
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary NEWBURN PUMPING STATION 10 23 99.4
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary OUSEBURN EAST PS 12 15 98.6
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary BLACKETT STREET CSO 10 11 89.8
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary NEWBURN HAUGH/RIVERSDALE WAY P STN 5 11 92.6
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WEST HOLBORN SOUTH CSO 9 7 98.5
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 River Tyne Saline Estuary THE OVAL PUMPING STATION 7 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary RIVERSIDE PARK WEST CSO 5 0 88.6
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WINCOMBLEE B PUMPING STATION 1 0 99.4
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary SUMMERHILL CSO 1 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary BLAYDON BURN WAGONWAY CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary GAS LANE CSO 0 0 85.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary BLANEY ROW PUMPING STATION 0 0 90.6
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary NEWBURN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE P STN 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary QUAYSIDE/ST LAWRENCE ROAD CSO 0 0 97.2

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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