Blaydon and Consett was polluted by sewage 1,962 times in 2024
lasting 8,415 hours

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Live data for Blaydon and Consett in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 11, 2025, 2:00 PM) there has been 1,527 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Blaydon and Consett in 2024
72 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
1,962 sewage dumps
8,415 h duration
That's 11.69 months. On average 5.4 times a day
Change Over Time
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Constituencies near Blaydon and Consett
Waterways in Blaydon and Consett
Daily Data
We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Blaydon and Consett, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Blaydon and Consett in 2024. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Reporting refers to how much of the time the monitoring was active. In this constituency 0 of the total 89 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Stockerley Burn, CROOKHALL STW 143 889 99.75
Northumbrian Water River Derwent CONSETT STW 67 727 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Derwent RIVERSIDEWAY CSO 41 413 73.9
Northumbrian Water Dipton Burn DIPTON STW 46 384 99.3
Northumbrian Water River Derwent LOCKHAUGH STW 48 338 63.1
Northumbrian Water Derwent HAMSTERLEY COLLIERY PS 49 338 100
Northumbrian Water Pont Burn PONT B CSO 46 298 96.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary BLAYDON METALS NO 1 CSO 46 296 68.2
Northumbrian Water Low Spen Burn SMAILES LANE CSO G15 51 292 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne BLAYDON METALS NO 2 CSO 47 272 99.9
Northumbrian Water Dipton Burn DIPTON STW 67 257 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne CLARA VALE SPS 57 255 100
Northumbrian Water Pont Burn HAMSTERLEY MILL PUMPING STATION 54 244 97.9
Northumbrian Water Leapmill Burn BURNOPFIELD CSO 49 242 98.1
Northumbrian Water Backstone Beck River Derwe CUTLERS HALL ROAD (NO. 29) STORM 35 237 96.5
Northumbrian Water River Derwent EBCHESTER SPS 48 228 100
Northumbrian Water River Derwent ARMONSIDE RD CONNOLLY TERRACE CSO 43 224 100
Northumbrian Water Pont Burn PONT LANE A CSO 36 206 97.5
Northumbrian Water Stanley Burn SOUTH WYLAM PUMPING STATION 77 203 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne FACTORY ROAD CSO 32 190 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary BLAYDON BANK CSO 73 175 97.6
Northumbrian Water Derwent GREEN BRIDGE CSO (DER 137) 26 151 100
Northumbrian Water Smallhope Burn BUTSFIELD LANE CSO DER092 56 144 99.8
Northumbrian Water River Derwent CHARE BANK CSO 40 141 100
Northumbrian Water Leapmill Burn BUSTY BANK CSO 57 136 99.7
Northumbrian Water Backstone Burn CHURCH ROAD CSO 46 135 96.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuarine Waters STATION BANK CSO 51 126 87.5
Northumbrian Water River Derwent PENNINE VIEW CSO 26 99 100
Northumbrian Water Derwent STATION ROAD CSO G020 35 93 95.6
Northumbrian Water Smallhope Burn EAST OF KNITSLEY GRANGE FARM CSO 39 90 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Derwent RGIL LOCKHAUGH RD & SHRBURN PRK CSO 30 64 99.9
Northumbrian Water Dene Burn CONSETT ACADEMY SOUTH CSO DER090 39 59 99.8
Northumbrian Water River Derwent WEST LANE SCHOOL CSO 13 53 24.1
Northumbrian Water Derwent SNOWS GREEN ROAD CSO (DER010) 11 52 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne HAUGH LANE CSO 13 52 17.2
Northumbrian Water Derwent, DIPWOOD ROAD CSO GO16 26 38 58.4
Northumbrian Water River Derwent CHOPWELL ROAD CSO 14 28 96.1
Northumbrian Water Backgill Burn FELLSIDE CSO (DER 174) 17 27 100
Northumbrian Water Derwent DERWENT CARAVAN PARK PUMPING STN 8 19 100
Northumbrian Water Barlow Burn EAST FARM CSO 10 19 94.3
Northumbrian Water Blackstone Burn River Derwent VINDOMORA VILLAS CSO 16 18 99
Northumbrian Water Dene Burn BERRY EDGE ROAD CSO DER096 20 17 99.6
Northumbrian Water Derwent, River WHISKEY JACKS PUMPING STATION 30 13 85.8
Northumbrian Water Derwent OLD DERWENT BRIDGE CSO 8 10 99.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CROFTDALE ROAD CSO 18 10 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary CSO AT CHURCH DENE 13 9 95.4
Northumbrian Water Tyne ADDISON VILLAGE CSO UNIT 3 11 7 100
Northumbrian Water Derwent, BRIARDENE 9 6 99.2
Northumbrian Water Tongue Burn BLACKHALL MILL PUMPING STATION 8 6 100
Northumbrian Water Derwent, HIGH FRIARSIDE CSO 10 5 92.8
Northumbrian Water Stockerley Burn, SOUTH STREET STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 3 5 95.2
Northumbrian Water Dene Burn MOORSIDE CSO DER002 6 5 100
Northumbrian Water Barlow Burn HIGH SPEN PUMPING STATION 22 5 72
Northumbrian Water Tinkerhill Gill, DURHAM ROAD REF NO 36 9 4 98.8
Northumbrian Water Tongue Burn SOUTH TERRACE CSO (G003) 6 4 98.7
Northumbrian Water Clvrt Watercrse River Tyne STELLA ROAD CSO 7 4 99.3
Northumbrian Water Backstone Burn ST MARYS PRIMARY SCHOOL CSO 9 3 97.2
Northumbrian Water Tongue Burn CHOPWELL PARK FOOTPATH CSO 5 2 98.9
Northumbrian Water Dene Burn CASTLESIDE 6 2 100
Northumbrian Water River Derwent SHOTLEY BRIDGE CSO DER0004 3 1 98.5
Northumbrian Water Spen Burn ASH TREE LANE CSO 4 1 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne CRAWCROOK LANE CSO 5 1 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Derwent TAY STREET CSO 4 1 99.7
Northumbrian Water Stockerley Burn, SIXTH ST SSO 2 1 95.1
Northumbrian Water Derwent Estuary SHIBDON ROAD CSO 3 0 94.3
Northumbrian Water Leapmill Burn BUSTY BANK CSO 2 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Backstone Burn CONSETT OAP HALL CSO 2 0 99.3
Northumbrian Water Pont Burn ST IVES ROAD CSO 2 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Backstone Burn REAR 39 CUTLERS HALL ROAD 2 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water Backstone Burn QUEENSWAY CSO 1 0 96.6
Northumbrian Water Leapmill Burn BUSTY BANK STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 2 0 53.3
Northumbrian Water Blaydon Burn CSO 28 BEWESHILL CRESCENT 2 0 100
Northumbrian Water Spen Burn HIGH SPEN CSO ROWLANDS GILL 6 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne COCHRANE STREET CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Howden Burn CONSETT IRON WORKS 0 0 94.1
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary SUMMERHILL CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Ebchester Burn DENECREST CSO 0 0 97.3
Northumbrian Water River Derwent 20 DERWENT DALE CUTLERS RD CSO 0 0 63.9
Northumbrian Water Tinkerhill Gill SHOTLEY BRIDGE HOSPITAL CSO 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary GAS LANE CSO 0 0 86.2
Northumbrian Water Derwent PARKGATE FARM CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Derwent DERWENTSIDE HOUSE CSO 0 0 96.6
Northumbrian Water Iveston Burn IVESTON LANE CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary BLAYDON BURN WAGONWAY CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Stockerley Burn 5 SOUTH STREET CSO, CROOKHALL 0 0 94.9
Northumbrian Water Barlow Burn HIGH SPEN CSO STROTHERS ROAD 0 0 98.4
Northumbrian Water Pont Burn PONT BUNGALOWS 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Snows Green Burn 85 SNOWS GREEN ROAD 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne GREENSIDE CSO 0 0 90.6

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

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