Blyth and Ashington - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 6,395 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 1,824 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Blyth and Ashington so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

What's a potential overflow? If the CSO goes 'Offline' while its Overflowing, we don't know if it stopped overflowing until we get a 'Stop' event.

Totals for Blyth and Ashington in 2026

Sewage6,395 hours
Monitoring offline1,824 hours
Potential pollution0 hours
Storm overflows95

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Daily Data

Jan - 1,947 hours
Feb - 2,879 hours , 169 offline
Mar - 420 hours , 552 offline
Apr - 85 hours , 15 offline
May - 216 hours , 316 offline
Jun - 219 hours , 391 offline
Jul - 139 hours
Aug - 157 hours
Sept - 39 hours
Oct - 289 hours , 379 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Northumbrian Water BLYTH NO 5 SPS River Blyth 75 995h 6m -
Northumbrian Water CRAMLINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS River Blyth 39 518h 34m -
Northumbrian Water NORTH CAMBOIS PUMPING STATION North Sea 29 509h 3m -
Northumbrian Water NEWBIGGIN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS North Sea 66 482h 19m -
Northumbrian Water BLYTH (NEW) SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS River Blyth 37 479h 22m -
Northumbrian Water CAMBOIS SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS North Sea 61 420h 42m -
Northumbrian Water BATES COLLIERY SPS River Blyth 38 361h 36m -
Northumbrian Water NEWBIGGIN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS North Sea 62 352h 45m -
Northumbrian Water JOHN STREET CSO Blyth Estuary 44 336h 41m 581 h
Northumbrian Water NORTH BLYTH SPS River Blyth 26 289h 43m -
Northumbrian Water CRAMLINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS River Blyth 37 222h 49m -
Northumbrian Water WEST SLEEKBURN FARM CSO Sleek Burn 29 193h 30m -
Northumbrian Water SEATON NORTH HOTEL CSO (WK013) Rowlington Burn 38 125h 44m -
Northumbrian Water ASHINGTON CSO PARK ROAD WK 006 Blackclose Burn 23 122h 42m -
Northumbrian Water SOUTH BLYTH HARBOUR CSO River Blyth 22 113h 8m -
Northumbrian Water WELWYN FACTORY CSO Sleekburn 22 102h 22m -
Northumbrian Water SLEEKBURN EAST CSO Sleek Burn 20 91h 34m -
Northumbrian Water EAST HARTFORD PS Horton Burn 17 83h 2m -
Northumbrian Water FRONT STREET CSO CH68 River Blyth 29 73h 14m -
Northumbrian Water CLEASEWELL HILL SPS River Wansbeck 29 60h 20m -
Northumbrian Water BANK TOP CSO River Blyth 20 60h 10m -
Northumbrian Water TAYLOR STREET CSO Blyth Estuary 20 56h 32m -
Northumbrian Water WILLOW BRIDGE CSO Sleek Burn 18 55h 20m -
Northumbrian Water BEDSIDE CSO Blyth 25 44h 36m 0 h
Northumbrian Water GRANGE PARK CSO (WK016) Sleek Burn 23 43h 9m -
Northumbrian Water GLAXO WEST CSO River Wansbeck 21 35h 54m -
Northumbrian Water MILLFIELD CSO Blyth, 7 27h 8m -
Northumbrian Water NEDDERTON CSO Green Letch 8 20h 56m -
Northumbrian Water RIDLEY STREET SPS River Blyth 4 16h 8m -
Northumbrian Water BEVAN HOUSE Blyth Estuary 3 16h 132 h
Northumbrian Water NORTH SEATON LEVEL CROSSING CSO River Wansbeck 11 14h 58m 72 h
Northumbrian Water EAST FORD ROAD SPS Wansbeck Estuary 7 11h 42m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 28 10h 8m -
Northumbrian Water LYNDHURST ROAD CSO River Wansbeck 8 9h 34m -
Northumbrian Water WARSDELL STREET PUMPING STATION Blyth Saline Estuary 5 9h 20m -
Northumbrian Water BRIARDALE ROAD CSO Blyth Estuary 7 6h 41m -
Northumbrian Water SOUTH GREEN LANE CSO Blackclose Dene 3 3h 45m 455 h
Northumbrian Water GREEN LANE CSO 9(WK 008) Wansbeck, 8 3h 16m -
Northumbrian Water BRIARDALE CSO Unnamed Sleek Burn 5 3h 8m -
Northumbrian Water COWPEN ROAD CSO River Blyth 1 2h 32m 22 h
Northumbrian Water ASHINGTON DRIVE CSO HLF MOON RNDBWT Wansbeck Estuary 5 2h 30m -
Northumbrian Water BOTHAL CSO THE TUNNELS CM036 Bothal Burn 4 2h 8m -
Northumbrian Water 20 WANSBECK STREET Wansbeck Estuary 4 1h 58m -
Northumbrian Water PARK ROAD & GREEN LANE CSO Wansbeck, 4 1h 30m -
Northumbrian Water BOTHAL COTTAGES R Wansbeck 1 1h 14m -
Northumbrian Water NEWBIGGIN SSO (WILKIE TERRACE) North Sea 2 0h 56m -
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Northumbrian Water SOLINGEN ESTATE CSO River Blyth 0 0h 0 h
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Northumbrian Water HUGHBOURNE STREET CSO River Blyth 0 0h 559 h

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.