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Live data for Gateshead Central and Whickham in 2026

So far this year (as of 8 Aug 2026, 08:00) there has been 2,578 hours of sewage overflows, from 90 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Gateshead Central and Whickham in 2025

37 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

1,066 sewage dumps

2,980 hours duration

That's 4.14 months. On average 2.9 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Gateshead Central and Whickham 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Northumbrian Water	River Derwent	MARKET LANE CSO	76	368	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	SOUTH SHORE ROAD CSO	86	247	97.5
Northumbrian Water	River Team	THE GREEN MARKET CSO	81	201	96.2
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	SOUTH SHORE ROAD EAST PUMPING STN	62	190	100
Northumbrian Water	Black Burn	GELLESFIELD CSO	52	177	59
Northumbrian Water	Tyne	MARKET LANE CSO	51	177	98.5
Northumbrian Water	Team	CSO ON WHICKHAM AND GATESHEAD SEWER	42	157	100
Northumbrian Water	River Team	CSO AT TEAM STREET	17	148	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	DUNSTON FLOUR MILL (WEST) CSO	14	146	91
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	TEAMS CSO JOHNSON STREET E17-105	48	143	99.75
Northumbrian Water	River Team	STAITHES ROAD CSO	30	135	97.8
Northumbrian Water	Black Burn	PINEWOOD GARDENS CSO	39	96	87.2
Northumbrian Water	Tyne	METROCENTRE GREEN CAR PARK PS (E7)	29	93	100
Northumbrian Water	Team	BENSHAM SIDINGS CSO	32	81	92.8
Northumbrian Water	Team,	LOW FELL CSO	40	78	92.1
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	SWINBURNE STREET CSO	50	67	91
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	ROSE STREET CSO	23	66	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Derwent	JUNCTION OF HEXHAM RD &	39	61	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Team Estuarine Waters	BENSHAM CSO	16	59	99.4
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	HIGH WEST STREET CSO (G066)	43	55	68.4
Northumbrian Water	Don	4 AYCLIFFE AVENUE CSO	19	49	93.6
Northumbrian Water	River Team Saline Estuary	CORMORANT DRIVE CSO	10	47	96.8
Northumbrian Water	Team	VICTORIA RD AT SANDOWN GARDENS CSO	22	34	99.4
Northumbrian Water	Team	NO2 ESKDALE GARDENS CSO	35	33	66.9
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	ALBANY ROAD/SALTMEADOWS ROAD CSO	25	28	100
Northumbrian Water	Team,	CHOWDENE CSO	20	15	99.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	EAST STREET WAS SWINBURN ST END CSO	13	5	83.1
Northumbrian Water	Team	EASTERN AVENUE CSO	11	4	90.3
Northumbrian Water	Derwent Mill Race	JUNC OF CLAVERING RD & SWALWEL BANK	9	1	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Team, River	BENSHAM HOSPITAL CSO	6	1	97.1
Northumbrian Water	Black Burn	ELMWOOD GARDENS	9	1	100
Northumbrian Water	Black Burn Via Sw Sewer	WHICKHAM SOUTH & SUNNISIDE CSO	5	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Don	LANCHESTER AVENUE CSO	5	0	98.4
Northumbrian Water	Derwent Mill Race	CLAVERING RD & RUSKIN RD	2	0	88.3
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	RIVERSDALE ROAD CSO	2	0	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	QUAYSIDE (HILLGATE STREET CSO)	1	0	99.6
Northumbrian Water	River Team	CSO REAR 11 ST AUSTELL GARDENS	2	0	98
Northumbrian Water	Black Burn	BEECH STREET CSO	0	0	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Black Burn	KINGSWAY/PRINCESS STREET CSO	0	0	74.9
Northumbrian Water	Black Burn	NAPIER COURT CSO	0	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Tyne	NEWTON STREET CSO	0	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	PIPEWELLGATE PUMPING STATION	0	0	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	SALTMEADOWS PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Black Burn	SOUTHFIELD ROAD CSO	0	0	97.4
Northumbrian Water	Culverted Section Black Burn	SUNNISIDE CSO	0	0	86.4
Northumbrian Water	Black Burn	WASHINGWELL SCHOOL CSO	0	0	98.6

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.

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