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Blyth and Ashington - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 4,828 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 2,120 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 , 744 offline
Feb - 2,879 hours , 1,138 offline
Mar - 0 hours , 238 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 35 638 h 44m -
Northumbrian Water CRAMLINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS River Blyth 24 434 h 32m -
Northumbrian Water NORTH CAMBOIS PUMPING STATION North Sea 22 421 h 40m -
Northumbrian Water BLYTH (NEW) SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS River Blyth 26 415 h 48m -
Northumbrian Water NEWBIGGIN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS North Sea 29 342 h 55m -
Northumbrian Water CAMBOIS SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS North Sea 26 313 h 22m -
Northumbrian Water JOHN STREET CSO Blyth Estuary 25 285 h 38m -
Northumbrian Water NORTH BLYTH SPS River Blyth 23 279 h 8m -
Northumbrian Water BATES COLLIERY SPS River Blyth 20 272 h 8m -
Northumbrian Water NEWBIGGIN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS North Sea 29 249 h 55m -
Northumbrian Water CRAMLINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS River Blyth 19 175 h 46m -
Northumbrian Water WEST SLEEKBURN FARM CSO Sleek Burn 15 149 h 54m -
Northumbrian Water WELWYN FACTORY CSO Sleekburn 16 94 h 2m -
Northumbrian Water ASHINGTON CSO PARK ROAD WK 006 Blackclose Burn 11 88 h 58m -
Northumbrian Water SOUTH BLYTH HARBOUR CSO River Blyth 10 77 h 58m 356 h
Northumbrian Water SEATON NORTH HOTEL CSO (WK013) Rowlington Burn 15 77 h 8m -
Northumbrian Water SLEEKBURN EAST CSO Sleek Burn 9 70 h 52m -
Northumbrian Water EAST HARTFORD PS Horton Burn 9 67 h 20m -
Northumbrian Water FRONT STREET CSO CH68 River Blyth 9 51 h 14m -
Northumbrian Water WILLOW BRIDGE CSO Sleek Burn 6 44 h 44m -
Northumbrian Water CLEASEWELL HILL SPS River Wansbeck 9 43 h 28m -
Northumbrian Water TAYLOR STREET CSO Blyth Estuary 7 42 h 16m -
Northumbrian Water BANK TOP CSO River Blyth 6 35 h 26m -
Northumbrian Water BEDSIDE CSO Blyth 10 31 h 10m -
Northumbrian Water GLAXO WEST CSO River Wansbeck 5 26 h 48m -
Northumbrian Water GRANGE PARK CSO (WK016) Sleek Burn 7 21 h 18m -
Northumbrian Water NEDDERTON CSO Green Letch 3 20 h 12m -
Northumbrian Water BEVAN HOUSE Blyth Estuary 3 16 h -
Northumbrian Water RIDLEY STREET SPS River Blyth 3 13 h 22m -
Northumbrian Water EAST FORD ROAD SPS Wansbeck Estuary 3 8 h 33m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 9 6 h 48m -
Northumbrian Water LYNDHURST ROAD CSO River Wansbeck 2 4 h 42m -
Northumbrian Water WARSDELL STREET PUMPING STATION Blyth Saline Estuary 1 4 h 10m -
Northumbrian Water SOUTH GREEN LANE CSO Blackclose Dene 1 1 h 24m 167 h
Northumbrian Water GREEN LANE CSO 9(WK 008) Wansbeck, 1 0 h 22m -
Northumbrian Water BOTHAL CSO THE TUNNELS CM036 Bothal Burn 1 0 h 10m -
Northumbrian Water ASHINGTON DRIVE CSO HLF MOON RNDBWT Wansbeck Estuary 1 0 h 4m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water COWPEN ROAD CSO River Blyth 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water HUGHBOURNE STREET CSO River Blyth 0 0 h 120 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water PARK ROAD & GREEN LANE CSO Wansbeck, 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water BOTHAL COTTAGES R Wansbeck 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water SOLINGEN ESTATE CSO River Blyth 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water MILLFIELD CSO Blyth, 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water BRIARDALE ROAD CSO Blyth Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water NEWBIGGIN SSO (WILKIE TERRACE) North Sea 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water NORTH SEATON LEVEL CROSSING CSO River Wansbeck 0 0 h 1,475 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water BRIARDALE CSO Unnamed Sleek Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water 20 WANSBECK STREET Wansbeck Estuary 0 0 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

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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