City of Durham polluted by sewage 3,402 times in 2023 - lasting 20,156 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for City of Durham in 2023
95 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
3,402 sewage dumps
20,156 h duration
That's 2.33 years! On average 9.3 times a day
Change Over Time

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for City of Durham 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 3 of the total 110 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 3 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water River Wear SUNDERLAND BRIDGE STW 137 2,090 100
Northumbrian Water Deerness ESH WINNING SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 103 1,496 97.7
Northumbrian Water Pittington Beck LOW PITTINGTON PUMPING STATION 74 1,415 86.1
Northumbrian Water Coalford Beck PITTINGTON STW 126 1,103 99.7
Northumbrian Water Bowburn Beck BOWBURN STW (2002) 89 758 88.95
Northumbrian Water Wear BARKERS HAUGH STW 61 739 97.7
Northumbrian Water River Browney SNOWDONS FARM CSO 53 726 82.1
Northumbrian Water Wear WEST RAINTON STW 46 647 85
Northumbrian Water Sherburn Beck SHERBURN SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 57 554 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Wear FRANKLAND LANE CSO 70 533 69.9
Northumbrian Water Browney BEAR PARK (ALDIN GRANGE) STW 69 507 99.9
Northumbrian Water Saltwell Gill DURHAM UNIVERSITY STW 102 495 75.75
Northumbrian Water Browney STONEBRIDGE SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 100 419 99.95
Northumbrian Water River Deerness ESH WINNING SPS 76 393 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Browney WITTON GILBERT STW 76 332 99.9
Northumbrian Water Unnamed Of River Browney BROWNEY LANE CSO 55 317 97.5
Northumbrian Water Wear, HIGH CARR ROAD CSO 96 314 100
Northumbrian Water River Deerness SCOUT HOUSE FARM 1 CSO 34 305 99.8
Northumbrian Water Wear FINCHALE VIEW 70 293 92.7
Northumbrian Water Priest Burn TOOL HIRE CSO 54 292 100
Northumbrian Water Shadforth Beck LUDWORTH SSO 62 292 99.4
Northumbrian Water Deerness HIGH WATERHOUSE FARM (100M WEST OF) 38 271 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear MILLBURNGATE CSO 29 257 52.4
Northumbrian Water River Wear SANDS SYPHON SSO 48 250 87.2
Northumbrian Water River Wear SUNDERLAND BRIDGE CSO 59 239 99.7
Northumbrian Water Chapman Beck CASSOP STW 64 232 99.8
Northumbrian Water Priest Burn FAIR VIEW STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 39 230 99.8
Northumbrian Water Coxhoe Beck KELLOE STW 43 219 100
Northumbrian Water River Deerness ESH WINNING CSO POINT A2 46 216 98.2
Northumbrian Water River Wear BARKERS HAUGH NO 8 CSO 47 212 94.8
Northumbrian Water River Deerness BLEACH GREEN FARM CSO 34 205 90.7
Northumbrian Water Bowburn Beck BOWBURN BRIDGE PS 41 184 100
Northumbrian Water Bowburn Beck EDNA STREET CSO 45 183 99.2
Northumbrian Water River Wear PITHOUSE LANE CSO (WEST RAINTON 5) 51 181 90.5
Northumbrian Water River Browney ALDIN GRANGE CSO 43 181 82.2
Northumbrian Water Coxhoe Beck PARADISE FARM (WILLOW FARM) CSO 44 180 99.9
Northumbrian Water Coxhoe Beck CORNFORTH PUMPING STATION 27 150 100
Northumbrian Water Deerness ESH WINNING CSO POINT A2 33 147 96.6
Northumbrian Water Deerness ESH WINNING CSO POINT A2 31 147 99.9
Northumbrian Water Wear PELAW WOOD SEWER, NO 1 BATHS BRIDGE 40 144 99.9
Northumbrian Water Black Dene Burn PITY ME SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 37 126 100
Northumbrian Water River Deerness SCOUT HOUSE FARM 2 CSO 32 124 98.8
Northumbrian Water Old Durham Beck SHINCLIFFE NO 2 PS 21 114 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear WALKERGATE DURHAM CSO 33 113 92.3
Northumbrian Water River Wear BARKERS HAUGH CSO NO. 10 35 108 99.9
Northumbrian Water Dene Burn DENESIDE CSO 46 106 99
Northumbrian Water Coxhoe Beck BLACK HORSE CSO 32 104 98.9
Northumbrian Water River Browney TOLL HOUSE ROAD CSO 53 102 97.4
Northumbrian Water Coxhoe Beck RAILWAY LINE CSO 46 98 80.7
Northumbrian Water Wear LEAMSIDE CSO 10 96 100
Northumbrian Water Pelaw Wood Beck LAUREL AVENUE CSO 35 87 99.7
Northumbrian Water Browney BROWNEY STW 28 84 79
Northumbrian Water Coxhoe Beck PARK HILL CSO 29 83 99.8
Northumbrian Water Pittington Beck RENNYS LANE PUMPING STATION 20 78 100
Northumbrian Water Pity Me Beck PITY ME ROUNDABOUT CSO 30 69 98.8
Northumbrian Water Wear SHINCLIFFE SSO MANHOLE NO. 2 19 68 99.8
Northumbrian Water Wear WEST RAINTON CSO DU085 35 67 100
Northumbrian Water Wear CANTEBURY ROAD CSO 28 67 100
Northumbrian Water Nicky Nack Beck NICKY NACK PUMPING STATION 9 62 100
Northumbrian Water Browney FRONT STREET CSO 59 58 100
Northumbrian Water Coldwell Burn LOCAL AVENUE 30 49 99.9
Northumbrian Water Shadforth Beck CHURCH VILLAS CSO 16 48 98.8
Northumbrian Water Unnamed Of River Wear BELMONT STW 4 46 79.7
Northumbrian Water River Browney GROVE TERRACE CSO DU005 36 42 97.7
Northumbrian Water Wear WEST RAINTON CSO DU085 26 41 99.3
Northumbrian Water River Wear SHINCLIFFE (A177) CSO 25 38 99.9
Northumbrian Water Goat'S Beck River Browney DURHAM SKILL CENTRE CSO DU008 18 37 99.7
Northumbrian Water Wear SALISBURY PS 7 23 100
Northumbrian Water Coxhoe Beck DAVEY LAMP PH CSO 18 20 95
Northumbrian Water Stockley Beck BRANCEPETH CSO 23 16 99.6
Northumbrian Water Pittington Beck STATION BANK (DU21) 22 13 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear CHURCH STREET DU026 15 13 100
Northumbrian Water Wear WEST RAINTON CSO DU085 11 12 77.2
Northumbrian Water Wear HIGH ST CSO 9 12 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear CATHEDRAL BANKS CSO 16 10 98.3
Northumbrian Water Wear JUBILEE PLACE CSO 7 10 96.7
Northumbrian Water River Burn WATERHOUSE CSO 6 5 100
Northumbrian Water Coxhoe Beck, KELLOE SSO MANHOLE NO. 18 9 3 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear ELVET SYPHON CSO 3 2 26.2
Northumbrian Water Coxhoe Beck COXHOE CSO 9 2 99.8
Northumbrian Water Coalford Beck, SHERBURN SSO MANHOLE NO 32 5 2 98.8
Northumbrian Water Pittington Beck DEVONSHIRE ROAD WEST CSO 1 2 98
Northumbrian Water Coalford Beck HIGH PITTINGTON STW CSO 7 2 79
Northumbrian Water Sherburnhouse Beck SHERBURN SSO MANHOLE NO. 34 3 1 88.4
Northumbrian Water River Wear BARKERS HAUGH NO 5 CSO 6 1 99.9
Northumbrian Water Goats Beck GOATSBECK TERRACE CSO 3 1 96
Northumbrian Water Wear FALLSWAY CSO (DU57) 3 1 100
Northumbrian Water Wear/Pelaw Wood Beck CATHEDRAL BANKS CSO 4 1 91.6
Northumbrian Water Wear CROSS STREET CSO 3 0 97.9
Northumbrian Water Coalford Beck HIGH PITTINGTON CSOs, MHs 27,28&29 2 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water Sherburn House Beck CHAPEL COURT DU068 1 0 93
Northumbrian Water River Wear MILLBURNGATE CSO 2 0 98.2
Northumbrian Water Relley Gill BROOM PARK OLD WORKS CSO 1 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Flass Burn ATHERTON STREET CSO 1 0 96.8
Northumbrian Water Blagdon Beck WEST STREET CSO 1 0 97
Northumbrian Water Brancepeth Beck BRANCEPETH STW 0 0 0
Northumbrian Water Clvrtd River Wear AINSLEY STREET CSO 0 0 98
Northumbrian Water Coxhoe Beck WORKINGMEN'S CLUB CSO 0 0 96.3
Northumbrian Water Pittington Beck DRAGON LANE CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Deerness JOYCE TERRACE AND DEERNESS VIEW STW 0 0 0
Northumbrian Water Pittington Beck DEVONSHIRE ROAD EAST CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Sherburnhouse Beck SHERBURN SSO MANHOLE NO. 33 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Wear BARCLAYS A CSO ELVET 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Wear STOCKTON RD & QUARRY HEADS LN CSOs 0 0 88
Northumbrian Water Brancepeth Beck, RECTORY COTTAGE CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Redhouse Gill, ROWAN DRIVE CSO (DU 52) 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Browney WITTON GILBERT STW 0 0 0
Northumbrian Water River Wear WADDINGTON STREET CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Pelaw Wood Beck PELAW WOOD ST. GILES CLOSE CSO 0 0 99.6
Northumbrian Water Deerness BRANDON VILLAGE SSO 0 0 95.7

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales

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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