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Cramlington and Killingworth

Polluted by sewage 246 times in 2025 lasting 889 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Cramlington and Killingworth in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 660 hours of sewage overflows, from 56 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Cramlington and Killingworth in 2025

23 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
246 sewage dumps
889 hours duration
That's 1.23 months. 4.7 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Cramlington and Killingworth in 2025. 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 1 of the total 31 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water River Blyth CRAMLINGTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 53 312 96.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea SEATON SLUICE PS 20 170 99.9
Northumbrian Water Lysdon Burn LYSNDON FARM CSO 19 107 99.7
Northumbrian Water Hartley Burn FIRST SCHOOL CSO NTY002 27 101 100
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn NEW MARE CLOSE FARM CSO 22 61 67
Northumbrian Water Horton Burn NELSON VILLAGE CSO 11 48 99.7
Northumbrian Water Hartley Burn DRYSDALE CRESENT CSO 5 30 95.2
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn KLONDYKE CSO 25 22 99.7
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn NORTH GOSFORTH CSO 13 21 99.4
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn WESTBOURNE ESTATE SSO 18 5 91.2
Northumbrian Water Uunamed Lysdon Burn MOUNTFORD ROAD CSO 4 2 83.7
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn SOUTH OF ROOKWOOD CSO NTY 003 7 1 99.8
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn SEGHILL CSO 6 0 92.8
Northumbrian Water Sandy'S Letch, Seaton Burn DUDLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL CSO 2 0 91.2
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn NORTHSIDE PLACE CSO 2 0 96.6
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn SIMONSIDE CSO 3 0 97.5
Northumbrian Water Brierdene Burn HOLYWELL HOUSE (CSO) 1 0 93
Northumbrian Water North Sea HARTLEY CARAVAN PARK PS 2 0 93.2
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn OWEN BRANNIGAN DRIVE CSO 2 0 98.7
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn ANNITSFORD BRIDGE CSO 1 0 32.6
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn ANNITSFORD BRIDGE CSO 1 0 99.3
Northumbrian Water Prestwick Carr DINNINGTON WEST SPS 1 0 98.2
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn SIMONSIDE CSO 1 0 99
Northumbrian Water Hartley Burn DINNINGTON EAST SPS 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn DUDLEY FIRST SCHOOL CSO 0 0 99.2
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn FERN DRIVE CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn GREEN CRESCENT CSO (NTY 006) 0 0 97.2
Northumbrian Water River Blyth HARTFORD BRIDGE SEWAGE PUMPING STAN 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn HOLYWELL P.S. 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn LOVE AVENUE COTTAGES CSO (NTY 009) 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn WANSBECK ROAD CSO (NTY 007) 0 0 69.9

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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