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Live data for City of Durham in 2025

So far this year (as of May 29, 2025, 2:15 AM) there has been 2,696 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.31 years!

Totals for City of Durham in 2024

91 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

2,499 sewage dumps

15,040 hours duration

That's 1.74 years! On average 6.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in City of Durham

Daily Data

We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for City of Durham, 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 City of Durham 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 6 of the total 110 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Northumbrian Water	Deerness	ESH WINNING SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	113	1,466	100
Northumbrian Water	Pittington Beck	LOW PITTINGTON PUMPING STATION	70	1,342	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	WILLINGTON STW	49	704	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Browney	WITTON GILBERT STW	47	670	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Wear	BARKERS HAUGH STW	55	639	97.5
Northumbrian Water	River Browney	SNOWDONS FARM CSO	46	598	100
Northumbrian Water	Holy Well Burn	SUNNYBROW SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	72	594	98.1
Northumbrian Water	Sherburn Beck	SHERBURN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	61	588	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	CSO WV80 DISUSED STW HUNWICK	94	486	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Brancepeth Beck	BRANCEPETH STW	46	481	69.3
Northumbrian Water	Coalford Beck	PITTINGTON STW	69	444	100
Northumbrian Water	Browney	BEAR PARK (ALDIN GRANGE) STW	45	380	62.2
Northumbrian Water	Steeley Burn	SATLEY STW	59	352	96.9
Northumbrian Water	Saltwell Gill	DURHAM UNIVERSITY STW	71	340	99.95
Northumbrian Water	River Browney	WITTON GILBERT STW	75	312	100
Northumbrian Water	Hamsteels Beck	QUEBEC PUMPING STATION	45	288	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear,	HIGH CARR ROAD CSO	80	272	100
Northumbrian Water	River Browney	FRONT STREET CSO	74	265	43.6
Northumbrian Water	Wear	FINCHALE VIEW	52	246	92.6
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	PITHOUSE LANE CSO (WEST RAINTON 5)	51	238	98.7
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	SANDS SYPHON SSO	45	238	88.3
Northumbrian Water	Browney	STONEBRIDGE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	69	237	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Unnamed Of River Browney	BROWNEY LANE CSO	41	224	98
Northumbrian Water	Priest Burn	TOOL HIRE CSO	44	221	100
Northumbrian Water	River Deerness	SCOUT HOUSE FARM 1 CSO	29	216	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	MILLBURNGATE CSO	29	214	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	BARKERS HAUGH NO 8 CSO	42	211	92.6
Northumbrian Water	Deerness	HIGH WATERHOUSE FARM (100M WEST OF)	25	184	100
Northumbrian Water	River Deerness	ESH WINNING SPS	25	180	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	FRANKLAND LANE CSO	17	152	38
Northumbrian Water	River Browney	ALDIN GRANGE CSO	41	152	92.7
Northumbrian Water	Priest Burn	FAIR VIEW STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW	24	130	82
Northumbrian Water	Dene Burn	DENESIDE CSO	42	124	99.2
Northumbrian Water	Wear	WEST RAINTON STW	10	123	30
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	ELVET SYPHON CSO	31	111	57
Northumbrian Water	Black Dene Burn	PITY ME SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	30	104	100
Northumbrian Water	River Deerness	ESH WINNING CSO POINT A2	22	103	99
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	LOW WILLINGTON PARK CSO	37	94	99.3
Northumbrian Water	Deerness	ESH WINNING CSO POINT A2	22	85	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Deerness	JOYCE TERRACE AND DEERNESS VIEW STW	13	85	58.9
Northumbrian Water	Deerness	ESH WINNING CSO POINT A2	21	84	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	CHURCH STREET DU026	10	78	25.4
Northumbrian Water	Wear	PELAW WOOD SEWER, NO 1 BATHS BRIDGE	32	77	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Browney	LANGLEY PARK SEWAGE PS	16	68	100
Northumbrian Water	Browney	BROWNEY STW	20	59	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Pelaw Wood Beck	LAUREL AVENUE CSO	32	59	100
Northumbrian Water	River Browney	GROVE TERRACE CSO DU005	37	58	98.2
Northumbrian Water	River Deerness	SCOUT HOUSE FARM 2 CSO	34	56	99.2
Northumbrian Water	Old Durham Beck	SHINCLIFFE NO 2 PS	12	55	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	RUSSEL PLACE CSO	18	52	96.5
Northumbrian Water	Wear,	WILLINGTON SYSTEM CSO	24	47	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	BARKERS HAUGH CSO NO. 10	28	40	100
Northumbrian Water	River Deerness	BLEACH GREEN FARM CSO	14	36	89
Northumbrian Water	Wear	CANTEBURY ROAD CSO	18	35	100
Northumbrian Water	River Browney	TOLL HOUSE ROAD CSO	29	33	99.2
Northumbrian Water	River Browney	OPPOSITE 16 FRONT STREET CSO	17	33	32.7
Northumbrian Water	Coldwell Burn	LOCAL AVENUE	13	30	93.2
Northumbrian Water	Wear	WEST RAINTON CSO DU085	20	29	100
Northumbrian Water	Pity Me Beck	PITY ME ROUNDABOUT CSO	16	26	93.1
Northumbrian Water	Pittington Beck	RENNYS LANE PUMPING STATION	11	19	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	WEST RAINTON CSO DU085	13	16	95.1
Northumbrian Water	Shadforth Beck	CHURCH VILLAS CSO	7	15	97.2
Northumbrian Water	Goat'S Beck River Browney	DURHAM SKILL CENTRE CSO DU008	11	13	99.2
Northumbrian Water	River Browney	BACK ELM STREET CSO	8	11	100
Northumbrian Water	Pittington Beck	STATION BANK (DU21)	11	7	100
Northumbrian Water	Willington Burn	GARDNER AVENUE CSO	8	7	96.3
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	SHINCLIFFE (A177) CSO	7	7	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	SALISBURY PS	3	7	100
Northumbrian Water	Steeley Burn	MILLHOUSE FARM CSO	9	7	100
Northumbrian Water	Stockley Beck	BRANCEPETH CSO	12	6	85.3
Northumbrian Water	Unnamed Beck Rvr Wear	CSO WV79 ROUGH LEA LANE	10	6	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	HIGH ST CSO	2	5	97
Northumbrian Water	Wear	SHINCLIFFE SSO MANHOLE NO. 2	3	4	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Wear	LEAMSIDE CSO	1	4	96
Northumbrian Water	Browney	FRONT STREET CSO	19	4	98
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	WALKERGATE DURHAM CSO	7	4	84.1
Northumbrian Water	Wear	WEST RAINTON CSO DU085	3	3	99.1
Northumbrian Water	Coalford Beck,	SHERBURN SSO MANHOLE NO 32	3	1	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Ravensbush Burn	SOUTH FARM CSO	3	1	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	CATHEDRAL BANKS CSO	3	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Coalford Beck	HIGH PITTINGTON STW CSO	4	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear/Pelaw Wood Beck	CATHEDRAL BANKS CSO	4	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Coalford Beck	HIGH PITTINGTON CSOs, MHs 27,28&29	2	0	99
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	BARKERS HAUGH NO 5 CSO	3	0	97.7
Northumbrian Water	Wear	STOCKTON RD & QUARRY HEADS LN CSOs	2	0	94.3
Northumbrian Water	Goats Beck	GOATSBECK TERRACE CSO	2	0	95.5
Northumbrian Water	Sherburnhouse Beck	SHERBURN SSO MANHOLE NO. 33	1	0	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Wear	JUBILEE PLACE CSO	1	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Park House Gill	OAKENSHAW CSO	1	0	100
Northumbrian Water	River Burn	WATERHOUSE CSO	1	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Brancepeth Beck,	RECTORY COTTAGE CSO	1	0	97.7
Northumbrian Water	Deerness	BRANDON VILLAGE SSO	0	0	98.8
Northumbrian Water	Hamsteels Beck	REAR AGED MINERS HOMES CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Hedleyhope Burn	CORNSAY COLLIERY STORM SEWAGE OVERF	0	0	99.4
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	WADDINGTON STREET CSO	0	0	85.2
Northumbrian Water	Wear	FALLSWAY CSO (DU57)	0	0	98.8
Northumbrian Water	Pelaw Wood Beck	PELAW WOOD ST. GILES CLOSE CSO	0	0	93.5
Northumbrian Water	Sherburnhouse Beck	SHERBURN SSO MANHOLE NO. 34	0	0	89.7
Northumbrian Water	Pittington Beck	DEVONSHIRE ROAD EAST CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Flass Burn	ATHERTON STREET CSO	0	0	96.9
Northumbrian Water	Sherburn House Beck	CHAPEL COURT DU068	0	0	88.3
Northumbrian Water	Pittington Beck	DEVONSHIRE ROAD WEST CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Relley Gill	BROOM PARK OLD WORKS CSO	0	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Willington Burn	HUNWICK LANE CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Pittington Beck	DRAGON LANE CSO	0	0	97.8
Northumbrian Water	Wear	BARCLAYS A CSO ELVET	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Clvrtd River Wear	AINSLEY STREET CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Redhouse Gill,	ROWAN DRIVE CSO (DU 52)	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	River Browney	FRONT STREET CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Unnamed Of River Wear	BELMONT STW	0	0	0

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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City of Durham Polluted by sewage 2,499 times in 2024 lasting 15,040 hours - That's 1.74 years! Monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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