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Tyne polluted by sewage 461 times in 2025 - lasting 1,975 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

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

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Tyne TYNE VIEW TERRACE PS 65 573 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne HEXHAM STW 43 317 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne HEDDON ON THE WALL STW 53 273 83.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne MARKET LANE CSO 51 177 98.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne BLAYDON METALS NO 2 CSO 36 159 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne METROCENTRE GREEN CAR PARK PS (E7) 29 93 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne STEPHENSON STREET PUMPING STATION 30 77 99.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne PRUDHOE PUMPING STATION 16 70 99.1
Northumbrian Water Tyne FACTORY ROAD CSO 8 54 88.4
Northumbrian Water Tyne PILOT STREET PUMPING STATION 14 42 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne POINT PLEASANT PUMPING STATION 16 38 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne PETH HEAD PS 22 28 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne WYLAM NORTH SPS EO AND CSO 18 23 97.2
Northumbrian Water Tyne STATION ROAD CSO 4 21 99.2
Northumbrian Water Tyne ANDREWS HOUSE 10 6 98.2
Northumbrian Water Tyne HEXHAM (ANICK GRANGE) P.S. 2 5 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne HEDDON BANKS FARM CSO 16 4 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne LAMPORT CSO 10 2 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne CRAWCROOK LANE CSO 6 1 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne ADDISON VILLAGE CSO UNIT 3 4 1 87.8
Northumbrian Water Tyne RIDING DENE CSO 7 1 93.6
Northumbrian Water Tyne OUTLET ROAD NO 2 CSO 1 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne COCHRANE STREET CSO 0 0 99.4
Northumbrian Water Tyne NEWTON STREET CSO 0 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne MID-TYNE NO,3 CSO 0 0 74.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne PRINCES/WOODBINE(ST HELENS ST.)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.

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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