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Live data for Blyth and Ashington in 2025

So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 5:30 PM) there has been 1,088 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.13 years!

Totals for Blyth and Ashington in 2024

41 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

1,551 sewage dumps
11,207 h duration

That's 1.3 years! On average 4.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Blyth and Ashington

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Blyth and Ashington, 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 Blyth and Ashington 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 43 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	Blyth Saline Estuary	NORTH BLYTH PUMPING STATION	105	1,777	100
Northumbrian Water	River Blyth	BLYTH NO5 SPS	118	1,612	100
Northumbrian Water	Blyth Estuary	JOHN STREET CSO	114	942	99.8
Northumbrian Water	River Blyth	BLYTH (NEW) SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	59	875	73.6
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	NORTH CAMBOIS PUMPING STATION	37	722	50.1
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	NEWBIGGIN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	96	713	74.8
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	CAMBOIS SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	102	672	100
Northumbrian Water	River Blyth	BATES COLLIERY SPS	65	638	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Sleek Burn	WEST SLEEKBURN FARM CSO	50	468	100
Northumbrian Water	River Blyth	SOUTH BLYTH HARBOUR CSO	47	342	89.4
Northumbrian Water	Horton Burn	EAST HARTFORD PS	33	238	100
Northumbrian Water	Rowlington Burn	SEATON NORTH HOTEL CSO (WK013)	57	216	99.2
Northumbrian Water	Blackclose Burn	ASHINGTON CSO PARK ROAD WK 006	30	209	98
Northumbrian Water	River Wansbeck	NORTH SEATON LEVEL CROSSING CSO	39	200	100
Northumbrian Water	Wansbeck	CLEASEWELL HILL SPS	43	165	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Blyth Estuary	BRIARDALE ROAD CSO	42	158	98.2
Northumbrian Water	River Blyth	FRONT STREET CSO CH68	46	155	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Blyth	BEDSIDE CSO	37	133	100
Northumbrian Water	Sleek Burn	WILLOW BRIDGE CSO	36	108	99.6
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	NEWBIGGIN SSO (WILKIE TERRACE)	13	103	97.6
Northumbrian Water	River Blyth	BANK TOP CSO	41	95	93
Northumbrian Water	Blyth Estuary	BRIARDALE ROAD CSO	39	79	100
Northumbrian Water	Blyth Estuary	BEVAN HOUSE	11	75	81.7
Northumbrian Water	Sleekburn	WELWYN FACTORY CSO	25	64	96.2
Northumbrian Water	River Wansbeck	GLAXO WEST CSO	27	54	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Wansbeck,	GREEN LANE CSO 9(WK 008)	19	49	99.8
Northumbrian Water	River Blyth	BLYTH NO6 SPS	65	46	97.7
Northumbrian Water	Green Letch	NEDDERTON CSO	26	46	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Wansbeck Estuary	EAST FORD ROAD PS EMERGENCY OVERFLO	12	39	100
Northumbrian Water	Sleek Burn	GRANGE PARK CSO (WK016)	23	37	83.6
Northumbrian Water	River Wansbeck	LYNDHURST ROAD CSO	24	31	100
Northumbrian Water	Blyth Saline Estuary	WARSDELL STREET PUMPING STATION	12	31	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Blyth	RIDLEY STREET SPS	7	19	100
Northumbrian Water	Blyth,	MILLFIELD CSO	15	17	98.3
Northumbrian Water	River Blyth	SOLINGEN ESTATE CSO	5	16	96.4
Northumbrian Water	River Blyth	COWPEN ROAD CSO	5	11	100
Northumbrian Water	Wansbeck Estuary	ASHINGTON DRIVE CSO HLF MOON RNDBWT	8	11	98
Northumbrian Water	Blackclose Dene	SOUTH GREEN LANE CSO	3	8	100
Northumbrian Water	Unnamed Sleek Burn	BRIARDALE CSO	5	5	100
Northumbrian Water	Wansbeck,	PARK ROAD & GREEN LANE CSO	6	4	100
Northumbrian Water	R Wansbeck	BOTHAL COTTAGES	4	3	100
Northumbrian Water	Wansbeck Estuary	20 WANSBECK STREET	0	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Sleek Burn	SLEEKBURN EAST 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

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Blyth and Ashington was polluted by sewage 1,551 times in 2024 lasting 11,207 hours - that's 1.3 years!

41 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

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Blyth and Ashington was polluted by sewage 1,551 times in 2024
lasting 11,207 hours - that's 1.3 years!