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Blyth and Ashington was polluted by sewage 1,655 times in 2023
lasting 12,121 hours - that's 1.4 years!

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Totals for Blyth and Ashington in 2023
41 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
1,655 sewage dumps
12,121 h duration
That's 1.4 years! On average 4.5 times a day
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Blyth and Ashington in 2023. 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 148 2,740 100
Northumbrian Water River Blyth BLYTH NO5 SPS 136 2,114 100
Northumbrian Water Blyth Estuary JOHN STREET CSO 137 1,380 100
Northumbrian Water River Blyth BLYTH (NEW) SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 75 1,229 95.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea CAMBOIS SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 102 710 100
Northumbrian Water Sleek Burn GRANGE PARK CSO (WK016) 76 536 85.9
Northumbrian Water River Blyth BATES COLLIERY SPS 57 532 100
Northumbrian Water Sleek Burn WEST SLEEKBURN FARM CSO 49 430 99.1
Northumbrian Water River Blyth SOUTH BLYTH HARBOUR CSO 53 340 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea NEWBIGGIN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 80 337 35.9
Northumbrian Water River Wansbeck NORTH SEATON LEVEL CROSSING CSO 51 229 99.8
Northumbrian Water Horton Burn EAST HARTFORD PS 37 209 99.8
Northumbrian Water Rowlington Burn SEATON NORTH HOTEL CSO (WK013) 55 176 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Blyth FRONT STREET CSO CH68 51 125 98.8
Northumbrian Water Blyth Estuary BRIARDALE ROAD CSO 47 107 100
Northumbrian Water Wansbeck, GREEN LANE CSO 9(WK 008) 28 101 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea NEWBIGGIN SSO (WILKIE TERRACE) 14 96 99.7
Northumbrian Water Wansbeck CLEASEWELL HILL SPS 45 89 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Blyth BANK TOP CSO 46 83 98.8
Northumbrian Water Blyth BEDSIDE CSO 24 71 100
Northumbrian Water Blyth Estuary BRIARDALE ROAD CSO 44 65 99.8
Northumbrian Water Sleekburn WELWYN FACTORY CSO 32 64 93.8
Northumbrian Water Sleek Burn WILLOW BRIDGE CSO 37 60 100
Northumbrian Water Blackclose Burn ASHINGTON CSO PARK ROAD WK 006 13 49 84.7
Northumbrian Water Blyth Estuary BEVAN HOUSE 10 39 96.8
Northumbrian Water River Blyth BLYTH NO6 SPS 61 39 99.5
Northumbrian Water Green Letch NEDDERTON CSO 28 33 99.1
Northumbrian Water River Wansbeck LYNDHURST ROAD CSO 27 22 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Wansbeck GLAXO WEST CSO 22 22 99.3
Northumbrian Water Sleek Burn SLEEKBURN EAST CSO 7 20 99.8
Northumbrian Water Blyth Saline Estuary WARSDELL STREET PUMPING STATION 10 19 99.9
Northumbrian Water Wansbeck, PARK ROAD & GREEN LANE CSO 9 15 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Blyth RIDLEY STREET SPS 3 6 99.7
Northumbrian Water Blyth, MILLFIELD CSO 15 6 97.1
Northumbrian Water Wansbeck Estuary EAST FORD ROAD PS EMERGENCY OVERFLO 7 5 99.9
Northumbrian Water Unnamed Sleek Burn BRIARDALE CSO 5 2 100
Northumbrian Water R Wansbeck BOTHAL COTTAGES 2 1 93.5
Northumbrian Water Wansbeck Estuary ASHINGTON DRIVE CSO HLF MOON RNDBWT 3 1 98.8
Northumbrian Water River Blyth SOLINGEN ESTATE CSO 4 1 91.3
Northumbrian Water River Blyth COWPEN ROAD CSO 2 0 99.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea NORTH CAMBOIS PUMPING STATION 3 0 22.9
Northumbrian Water Wansbeck Estuary 20 WANSBECK STREET 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Blackclose Dene SOUTH GREEN LANE 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. This uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

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