Darlington was polluted by sewage 298 times in 2023
lasting 825 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Darlington in 2023
26 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
298 sewage dumps
825 h duration
That's 1.15 months. 5.7 times a week, on average
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Darlington 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 1 of the total 29 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water River Skerne SOUTH PARK CSO DL035 51 260 99.8
Northumbrian Water Red House Beck, REDWORTH SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 52 210 100
Northumbrian Water River Skerne VICTORIA EMBANKMENT - POLAM LANE 19 114 100
Northumbrian Water River Skerne WHESSOE SPS 16 89 100
Northumbrian Water River Skerne DARLINGTON CROWN STREET NO 34 CSO 19 26 99.6
Northumbrian Water River Skerne YARM ROAD CSO (Y3) 28 20 99.5
Northumbrian Water Skerne BEAUMONT HILL SSO 11 19 68.5
Northumbrian Water River Skerne NEASHAM ROAD CSO (Y5) 20 14 26.6
Northumbrian Water Skerne, HARROWGATE HILL SEWAGE PS 9 13 100
Northumbrian Water West Beck SPRING COURT CSO DL006 6 12 100
Northumbrian Water Tees EDINBURGH DRIVE CSO 7 11 93.9
Northumbrian Water Skerne GLADSTONE STREET (G1) 17 7 100
Northumbrian Water Cree Beck CREE BECK CSO 5 7 100
Northumbrian Water Cocker Beck DENE GROVE CSO 5 4 100
Northumbrian Water River Skerne VICTORIA ROAD CSO 3 2 100
Northumbrian Water Skerne SOUTH PARK EAST CSO 5 2 100
Northumbrian Water River Skerne YARM ROAD CSO (Y2) 5 2 100
Northumbrian Water River Skerne REAR FORSTER ST/EASSON ROAD CSO 3 1 100
Northumbrian Water River Tees MAYFAIR ROAD CSO 2 1 99.8
Northumbrian Water River Skerne EASSON ROAD/DODDS STREET CSO 3 1 98.1
Northumbrian Water River Skerne FORSTER STREET/EASSON ROAD CSO 3 1 100
Northumbrian Water Tees BLACKWELL SCAR PS 1 0 100
Northumbrian Water Dene Beck HEIGHINGTON CSO 2 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Skerne NEASHAM ROAD (Y4) CSO 2 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Skerne CSO YARM ROAD DL18 2 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Skerne YARM ROAD CSO (Y6) 2 0 54.5
Northumbrian Water Cree Beck Tees Catchment GENEVA ROAD CSO 0 0 0
Northumbrian Water Cocker Beck CSO AT WOODLAND ROAD 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Skerne ASKRIGG STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERF 0 0 98.2

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. 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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