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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Northumberland Coast - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,151 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 7,728 hours , potential overflows 639 hours

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Totals for 2025

Sewage2,151 hours
Monitoring offline7,728 hours
Potential pollution639 hours
Storm overflows63

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Daily Data - when it rained, and when they spilled

Square = rainfall none → heavy
Drop = sewage minutes → all day
Potential pollution Monitoring offline
Jan - 224 hours , 1,049 offline
Feb - 5 hours , 924 offline
Mar - 17 hours , 888 offline
Apr - 9 hours , 1,116 offline
May - 15 hours , 5 potential
Jun - 17 hours , 646 offline
Jul - 85 hours , 21 offline
Aug - 6 hours , 409 offline
Sept - 47 hours , 1,207 offline
Oct - 175 hours , 548 offline
Nov - 1,058 hours , 621 potential
Dec - 490 hours , 12 potential

Storm overflows in and around Northumberland Coast

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Northumbrian Water RAF BOULMER SPS North Sea 24 406h 44m -
Northumbrian Water BOULMER SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS North Sea 21 327h 55m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 38 223h 12m 27 h
Northumbrian Water SCREMERSTON NO 2 SPS North Sea 17 213h 10m -
Northumbrian Water CRASTER SOUTH SPS North Sea 23 187h 35m -
Northumbrian Water Embleton Sewage Treatment Works Embleton Burn 20 143h 55m -
Northumbrian Water MITCHELL AVENUE SPS North Sea 17 92h 57m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 26 79h 42m 21 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 21 63h 25m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 6 47h 2m 3 h
Northumbrian Water AMBLE HARBOUR SPS River Coquet 9 38h 48m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 24 37h 11m 73 h
Northumbrian Water BEADNELL HARBOUR SPS North Sea 12 29h 59m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 13 26h 39m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 80 26h 21m 127 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 15 23h 53m 332 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 10 20h 7m 64 h
Northumbrian Water EMBLETON SEWAGE WORKS CSO Embleton Burn 9 17h 10m -
Northumbrian Water STEPPY LANE PUMPING STATION River Aln 6 13h 37m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 9 13h 17m 22 h
Northumbrian Water STEPPEY LANE CSO A020 Hips Burn 8 12h 40m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 15 12h 16m 0 h
Northumbrian Water BEAL BANK SPS River Coquet 4 10h 20m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 2 9h 16m 406 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 2 9h 6m 992 h
Northumbrian Water HOLY ISLAND STW North Sea 2 8h 38m -
Northumbrian Water ALNMOUTH SPS River Aln 4 7h 36m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 3 6h 56m -
Northumbrian Water BEADNELL (SWINHOE ROAD) SPS North Sea 3 5h 27m -
Northumbrian Water HARBOUR SPS North Sea 7 5h 17m -
Northumbrian Water WOODLANDS NO 3 SPS River Coquet 2 4h 38m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 4 4h 5m 5 h
Northumbrian Water DERWENT WATER TERRACE CSO BT022 North Sea 2 3h 24m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 3 3h 12m 4 h
Northumbrian Water KING STREET SPS North Sea 2 2h 43m -
Northumbrian Water WARKWORTH SEWERAGE SYSTEM SSO MH NO Coquet, Tidal Waters 1 2h 14m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 2h 13m -
Northumbrian Water RED BARNS, BAMBURGH SPS North Sea 2 1h 53m -
Northumbrian Water TURNER STREET SPS River Coquet 3 1h 50m 0 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 2 1h 42m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 5 1h 25m 21 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 2 0h 40m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0h 36m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0h 30m 2,022 h
Northumbrian Water A1068 ROAD BRIDGE CSO Coquet Estuary 1 0h 16m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0h 1,211 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water JOLLY FISHERMAN CSO North Sea 0 0h 62 h
Northumbrian Water AVONDALE CSO Aln 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 564 h
Northumbrian Water SEA LANE PUMPING STATION Embleton Burn 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water CRASTER NORTH SPS North Sea 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 3 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 1,064 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 366 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 867 h
Northumbrian Water LESBURY(HIPSBURN)CSO Hips Burn 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water CSO AT HEUGH ROAD P/STN North Sea 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 101 h
Northumbrian Water DUNSTAN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS Craster Burn 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water SOUTHFIELD CSO N. Sea 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water ST AIDANS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION North Sea 0 0h -

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.