Gateshead Central and Whickham was polluted by sewage 1,593 times in 2024
lasting 6,284 hours

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Live data for Gateshead Central and Whickham in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 1:15 PM) there has been 776 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Gateshead Central and Whickham in 2024
40 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
1,593 sewage dumps
6,284 h duration
That's 8.73 months. On average 4.4 times a day
Change Over Time
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Daily Data
We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Gateshead Central and Whickham, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Gateshead Central and Whickham in 2024. 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 0 of the total 46 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary DUNSTON FLOUR MILL (WEST) CSO 48 570 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne METROCENTRE GREEN CAR PARK PS (E7) 88 553 100
Northumbrian Water River Derwent MARKET LANE CSO 66 471 76.7
Northumbrian Water River Team CSO AT TEAM STREET 36 416 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne MARKET LANE CSO 71 397 97.8
Northumbrian Water River Team STAITHES ROAD CSO 54 373 100
Northumbrian Water Team CSO ON WHICKHAM AND GATESHEAD SEWER 64 371 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SOUTH SHORE ROAD CSO 92 344 77.2
Northumbrian Water River Team THE GREEN MARKET CSO 72 311 94.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne TEAMS CSO JOHNSON STREET E17-105 60 293 81.85
Northumbrian Water Black Burn GELLESFIELD CSO 75 286 93.2
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SOUTH SHORE ROAD EAST PUMPING STN 63 228 100
Northumbrian Water River Team Saline Estuary CORMORANT DRIVE CSO 40 215 89.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne SWINBURNE STREET CSO 78 186 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne ROSE STREET CSO 55 162 99.9
Northumbrian Water Team, LOW FELL CSO 48 134 99.2
Northumbrian Water Team BENSHAM SIDINGS CSO 42 126 100
Northumbrian Water Black Burn ELMWOOD GARDENS 69 115 96.1
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary HIGH WEST STREET CSO (G066) 70 113 99.9
Northumbrian Water Derwent JUNCTION OF HEXHAM RD & 55 102 91.6
Northumbrian Water Team EASTERN AVENUE CSO 40 85 99.9
Northumbrian Water Team NO2 ESKDALE GARDENS CSO 47 82 92.9
Northumbrian Water Black Burn PINEWOOD GARDENS CSO 42 79 97.2
Northumbrian Water Don 4 AYCLIFFE AVENUE CSO 23 72 99.8
Northumbrian Water Team VICTORIA RD AT SANDOWN GARDENS CSO 27 39 86.8
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary ALBANY ROAD/SALTMEADOWS ROAD CSO 32 34 100
Northumbrian Water Team, CHOWDENE CSO 26 29 83
Northumbrian Water River Team Estuarine Waters BENSHAM CSO 16 27 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne EAST STREET WAS SWINBURN ST END CSO 24 20 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary SALTMEADOWS PUMPING STATION 4 16 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne RIVERSDALE ROAD CSO 10 3 100
Northumbrian Water Black Burn Via Sw Sewer WHICKHAM SOUTH & SUNNISIDE CSO 8 2 100
Northumbrian Water Derwent Mill Race CLAVERING RD & RUSKIN RD 15 2 97.7
Northumbrian Water Derwent Mill Race JUNC OF CLAVERING RD & SWALWEL BANK 9 2 100
Northumbrian Water River Don LANCHESTER AVENUE CSO 4 2 99.7
Northumbrian Water Team, River BENSHAM HOSPITAL CSO 8 1 71.2
Northumbrian Water Black Burn NAPIER COURT CSO 3 1 95
Northumbrian Water Black Burn WASHINGWELL SCHOOL CSO 3 1 94.4
Northumbrian Water Black Burn BEECH STREET CSO 5 1 100
Northumbrian Water Black Burn KINGSWAY/PRINCESS STREET CSO 1 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne QUAYSIDE (HILLGATE STREET CSO) 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Black Burn SOUTHFIELD ROAD CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Culverted Section Black Burn SUNNISIDE CSO 0 0 83.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne NEWTON STREET CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary PIPEWELLGATE PUMPING STATION 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Team CSO REAR 11 ST AUSTELL GARDENS 0 0 100

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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