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Tyne Saline Estuary polluted by sewage 390 times in 2025 - lasting 1,116 hours

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for 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 Tyne Saline Estuary SOUTH SHORE ROAD CSO 86 247 97.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SOUTH SHORE ROAD EAST PUMPING STN 62 190 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary DAVY BANK PUMPING STATION 56 179 96.1
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary BLAYDON METALS NO 1 CSO 34 157 97.8
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary PRINCE CONSORT ROAD PUMPING STATION 39 109 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary HARTON LOW STAITHES CSO 24 72 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SCOTSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION NO 4 33 65 63.1
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SMITH STREET PUMPING STATION 5 32 99.6
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SCOTSWOOD ROAD/DENTON BURN PS 23 30 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary ALBANY ROAD/SALTMEADOWS ROAD CSO 25 28 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary POTTER STREET PUMPING STATION 2 1 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary HARTON LOW STAITHES (MILL DAM) CSO 1 1 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary PIPEWELLGATE PUMPING STATION 0 0 99.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SCOTSWOOD BRIDGE CSO 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary MITRE PLACE CSO 0 0 97.3

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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