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Blyth and Ashington - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 5,930 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 1,444 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.

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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 - 21 hours
Daily data is experimental and data is not guaranteed to be accurate. Please inform us of any issue, we will fix.
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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 55 815h 5m -
Northumbrian Water NORTH CAMBOIS PUMPING STATION North Sea 29 509h 3m -
Northumbrian Water CRAMLINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS River Blyth 34 505h 48m -
Northumbrian Water BLYTH (NEW) SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS River Blyth 34 466h 48m -
Northumbrian Water NEWBIGGIN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS North Sea 53 441h 50m -
Northumbrian Water CAMBOIS SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS North Sea 47 385h 58m -
Northumbrian Water BATES COLLIERY SPS River Blyth 30 338h 22m -
Northumbrian Water NEWBIGGIN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS North Sea 50 322h 37m -
Northumbrian Water JOHN STREET CSO Blyth Estuary 33 315h 581 h
Northumbrian Water NORTH BLYTH SPS River Blyth 26 289h 43m -
Northumbrian Water CRAMLINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS River Blyth 31 214h 10m -
Northumbrian Water WEST SLEEKBURN FARM CSO Sleek Burn 24 183h 16m -
Northumbrian Water ASHINGTON CSO PARK ROAD WK 006 Blackclose Burn 20 114h 12m -
Northumbrian Water SEATON NORTH HOTEL CSO (WK013) Rowlington Burn 29 109h 44m -
Northumbrian Water SOUTH BLYTH HARBOUR CSO River Blyth 18 106h 28m -
Northumbrian Water WELWYN FACTORY CSO Sleekburn 20 101h 22m -
Northumbrian Water SLEEKBURN EAST CSO Sleek Burn 17 88h 54m -
Northumbrian Water EAST HARTFORD PS Horton Burn 14 78h 26m -
Northumbrian Water FRONT STREET CSO CH68 River Blyth 23 66h 42m -
Northumbrian Water BANK TOP CSO River Blyth 15 56h -
Northumbrian Water CLEASEWELL HILL SPS River Wansbeck 23 55h 24m -
Northumbrian Water WILLOW BRIDGE CSO Sleek Burn 14 53h 8m -
Northumbrian Water TAYLOR STREET CSO Blyth Estuary 15 52h 30m -
Northumbrian Water BEDSIDE CSO Blyth 22 42h 42m 0 h
Northumbrian Water GRANGE PARK CSO (WK016) Sleek Burn 17 35h 41m -
Northumbrian Water GLAXO WEST CSO River Wansbeck 14 32h 44m -
Northumbrian Water MILLFIELD CSO Blyth, 6 26h 42m -
Northumbrian Water NEDDERTON CSO Green Letch 6 20h 42m -
Northumbrian Water RIDLEY STREET SPS River Blyth 4 16h 8m -
Northumbrian Water BEVAN HOUSE Blyth Estuary 3 16h -
Northumbrian Water EAST FORD ROAD SPS Wansbeck Estuary 6 11h 42m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 23 9h 9m -
Northumbrian Water LYNDHURST ROAD CSO River Wansbeck 6 8h 36m -
Northumbrian Water NORTH SEATON LEVEL CROSSING CSO River Wansbeck 6 8h 24m 72 h
Northumbrian Water WARSDELL STREET PUMPING STATION Blyth Saline Estuary 4 8h 4m -
Northumbrian Water SOUTH GREEN LANE CSO Blackclose Dene 3 3h 45m 455 h
Northumbrian Water GREEN LANE CSO 9(WK 008) Wansbeck, 7 3h -
Northumbrian Water BRIARDALE ROAD CSO Blyth Estuary 3 2h 56m -
Northumbrian Water BRIARDALE CSO Unnamed Sleek Burn 4 2h 44m -
Northumbrian Water COWPEN ROAD CSO River Blyth 1 2h 32m 22 h
Northumbrian Water ASHINGTON DRIVE CSO HLF MOON RNDBWT Wansbeck Estuary 4 2h 10m -
Northumbrian Water BOTHAL CSO THE TUNNELS CM036 Bothal Burn 3 1h 56m -
Northumbrian Water PARK ROAD & GREEN LANE CSO Wansbeck, 3 1h 30m -
Northumbrian Water BOTHAL COTTAGES R Wansbeck 1 1h 14m -
Northumbrian Water NEWBIGGIN SSO (WILKIE TERRACE) North Sea 2 0h 56m -
Northumbrian Water 20 WANSBECK STREET Wansbeck Estuary 2 0h 54m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
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Northumbrian Water SOLINGEN ESTATE CSO River Blyth 0 0h -
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Northumbrian Water HUGHBOURNE STREET CSO River Blyth 0 0h 312 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
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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

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.

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