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Darlington - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 276 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 240 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Darlington 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 - 26 hours
Feb - 151 hours
Mar - 78 hours , 48 offline
Apr - 1 hours , 191 offline
May - 18 hours
Jun - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Northumbrian Water SOUTH PARK CSO DL035 River Skerne 17 111h 26m -
Northumbrian Water Brafferton Combined Sewer Overflow River Skerne 8 68h 16m -
Northumbrian Water REDWORTH SEWAGE PUMPING STATION Red House Beck, 9 33h 20m -
Northumbrian Water EDINBURGH DRIVE CSO Tees 3 17h 54m 98 h
Northumbrian Water VICTORIA EMBANKMENT - POLAM LANE River Skerne 4 16h 30m -
Northumbrian Water NEASHAM ROAD CSO (Y5) River Skerne 12 9h 6m -
Northumbrian Water HARROWGATE HILL SEWAGE PS Skerne, 6 7h 32m -
Northumbrian Water BEAUMONT HILL SSO Skerne 5 4h 52m -
Northumbrian Water DARLINGTON CROWN STREET NO 34 CSO River Skerne 4 3h 36m -
Northumbrian Water SPRING COURT CSO DL006 West Beck 3 1h 50m -
Northumbrian Water WHESSOE SPS River Skerne 2 0h 36m -
Northumbrian Water DENE GROVE CSO Cocker Beck 1 0h 24m -
Northumbrian Water HEIGHINGTON CSO Dene Beck 1 0h 22m -
Northumbrian Water BROKEN BLACKWELL SCAR PUMPING STATION River Tees 1 0h 12m -
Northumbrian Water CREE BECK CSO Cree Beck 1 0h 2m 141 h
Northumbrian Water FORSTER STREET/EASSON ROAD CSO River Skerne 1 0h 1m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water YARM ROAD CSO (Y6) River Skerne 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water YARM ROAD CSO (Y3) River Skerne 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water CSO AT WOODLAND ROAD Cocker Beck 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water CSO YARM ROAD DL18 River Skerne 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water VICTORIA ROAD SPS River Skerne 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water NEASHAM ROAD (Y4) CSO River Skerne 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water SOUTH PARK EAST CSO Skerne 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water GLADSTONE STREET (G1) Skerne 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water EASSON ROAD/DODDS STREET CSO River Skerne 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water MAYFAIR ROAD CSO River Tees 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water YARM ROAD CSO (Y2) River Skerne 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water 248 GENEVA ROAD CSO Cree Beck Into Kent Beck 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water ASKRIGG STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERF River Skerne 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water GENEVA ROAD CSO Cree Beck Tees Catchment 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water REAR FORSTER ST/EASSON ROAD CSO River Skerne 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.