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Easington

Polluted by sewage 854 times in 2025 lasting 4,268 hours

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

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Live data for Easington in 2026

So far this year (as of 12 Aug 2026, 20:45) there has been 2,119 hours of sewage overflows, from 119 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Easington in 2025

45 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
854 sewage dumps
4,268 hours duration
That's 5.93 months. On average 2.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Easington 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 55 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 Bluehouse Gill BLUEHOUSE GILL CSO 104 930 99.6
Northumbrian Water Heads Hope Burn TILERY FARM STRAGE TANK CSO 63 649 97.6
Northumbrian Water North Sea LIMEKILN GILL SAMPLING PT. FOR EA18 32 543 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Dene Burn HAWTHORN STW 50 187 99.8
Northumbrian Water Dawdon Dene Beck DALTON-LE-DALE CSO 45 182 99.5
Northumbrian Water North Sea EASINGTON OUTFALL 55 180 99.9
Northumbrian Water Coop House Dene Burn COOP HOUSE WOOD CSO 36 161 93
Northumbrian Water Gore Burn THROSTLES NEST PUMPING STATION 32 134 100
Northumbrian Water Calfpasture Burn SHOTTON LANE CSO 37 131 99.4
Northumbrian Water Shadforth Beck LUDWORTH SSO 32 129 99.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea SEAHAM SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 25 123 98.5
Northumbrian Water Dalton Burn DALTON RETAIL PARK CSO 12 121 88.8
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn MILL INN A SSO 11 107 99.4
Northumbrian Water Caldwell Burn PESSPOOL LANE CSO 11 104 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea HORDEN STW 27 89 98.05
Northumbrian Water Horden Burn PARADISE FARM CSO 32 71 77.4
Northumbrian Water Of Heads Hope Burn WOODLAND VIEW CSO 20 70 100
Northumbrian Water Of Gore Burn PATTON STREET STORAGE TANK 11 58 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea CRIMDON PARK PUMPING STATION 6 46 80.6
Northumbrian Water Gore Burn THROSTLES NEST STORAGE TANK 8 43 99.9
Northumbrian Water Of Heads Hope Burn WEST WOODBURN CSO 16 40 100
Northumbrian Water Of Heads Hope Burn EAST TERRACE CSO 15 34 93.6
Northumbrian Water Castle Eden Burn WELLFIELD PS 14 25 100
Northumbrian Water Horden Burn STATION ROAD CSO 17 17 96.3
Northumbrian Water Scawpie Dean CSO AT WARKWORTH CRESCENT 10 13 100
Northumbrian Water Blackhills Gill BLACKHILLS FARM CSO 6 10 98.7
Northumbrian Water Horden Burn/Thorpe Burn HORDEN DENE SSO NO 1 14 10 49.2
Northumbrian Water North Dene Burn HAWTHRON CSO 17 9 98.8
Northumbrian Water Coldwell Burn/Murton Dene HASWELL SSO NO 3 8 9 99.7
Northumbrian Water Coldwell Burn, CONISHEAD TERRACEM SOUTH HETTON CSO 14 6 100
Northumbrian Water Dalton Burn SEA VIEW STORAGE TANK 6 4 93.5
Northumbrian Water Edderacres Burn CEMETERY RD SSO 13 4 94.8
Northumbrian Water Dalton Dene BURNIP ROAD CSO 9 3 94.8
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn SEAHAM URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL SSO 10 1 99.7
Northumbrian Water Bellows Burn SHERATON CSO 50M SW OF STW 2 1 96.7
Northumbrian Water Blackhills Gill SOUTH EAST VIEW CSO 4 0 99.8
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn/Ice House Dene/Daw SEAHAM CSO NO 8 5 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Murton Dene BARWICK STREET CSO 6 0 95.9
Northumbrian Water Seaton Burn GLEBE ESTATE CSO 3 0 94.1
Northumbrian Water Horden Burn SUNDERLAND ROAD CSO 5 0 97.7
Northumbrian Water Ice House Dean CSO NEW DRIVE RECREATION GROUND 3 0 86.8
Northumbrian Water Culverted Seaham Burn MURTON COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 3 0 89.9
Northumbrian Water Dawdon Dene DAPHNE CRESCENT CSO 2 0 100
Northumbrian Water Ice House Dean DURHAM STREET CSO 2 0 96
Northumbrian Water Coldwell Burn COLDWELL BURN SSO 1 0 91.3
Northumbrian Water Dalton Burn B1285 STORAGE TANK 0 0 99.2
Northumbrian Water Of Gore Burn COOPERS CLOSE CSO 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Blackhills Gill COTSFORD JUNIOR SCHOOL CSO 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea DENE HOLME OUTFALL 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Castle Eden Burn DENE HOLME SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 0 0 83.5
Northumbrian Water Seaham South Dock FERGUSON MOTOR REPAIRS CSO 2008 0 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water Dalton Burn HAWTHORNE CLOSE STORAGE TANK 0 0 99.4
Northumbrian Water Blackhills Gill REAR OF THIRD STREET CSO 0 0 94.6
Northumbrian Water Seaham South Dock SEAHAM SOUTH DOCK CSO 1302 0 0 79.5
Northumbrian Water Warren House Burn WARREN HOUSE SEA OUTFALL 0 0 97.2

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. 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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