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Gateshead Central and Whickham - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,431 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 329 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Gateshead Central and Whickham 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 - 492 hours
Feb - 1,403 hours
Mar - 278 hours
Apr - 9 hours , 224 offline
May - 248 hours , 105 offline
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 MARKET LANE CSO River Derwent 35 259h 40m -
Northumbrian Water SOUTH SHORE ROAD EAST PUMPING STN Tyne Saline Estuary 43 214h 15m -
Northumbrian Water THE GREEN MARKET CSO River Team 36 212h 48m -
Northumbrian Water GELLESFIELD CSO Black Burn 31 188h 46m -
Northumbrian Water WELLINGTON ROAD CSO (E9-102) River Tyne 20 174h 45m -
Northumbrian Water DUNSTON FLOUR MILL (WEST) CSO River Tyne Saline Estuary 16 172h 38m -
Northumbrian Water CSO AT TEAM STREET River Team 17 154h 3m -
Northumbrian Water MARKET LANE CSO Tyne 23 152h 59m 105 h
Northumbrian Water CSO ON WHICKHAM AND GATESHEAD SEWER Team 23 135h 39m -
Northumbrian Water STAITHES ROAD CSO River Team 17 119h -
Northumbrian Water TEAMS CSO JOHNSON STREET E17-105 River Tyne 27 111h 25m -
Northumbrian Water BENSHAM SIDINGS CSO Team 17 71h 9m -
Northumbrian Water SOUTH SHORE ROAD CSO Tyne Saline Estuary 21 68h 48m -
Northumbrian Water PINEWOOD GARDENS CSO Black Burn 16 64h 14m -
Northumbrian Water BENSHAM CSO River Team Estuarine Waters 8 49h 52m -
Northumbrian Water LOW FELL (TVTE) CSO Culverted Section River Team 16 48h -
Northumbrian Water SWINBURNE STREET CSO River Tyne 18 37h 6m -
Northumbrian Water NO2 ESKDALE GARDENS CSO Team 11 31h 52m -
Northumbrian Water HIGH WEST STREET CSO (G066) Tyne Estuary 16 31h 42m -
Northumbrian Water SEVENTH AVENUE CSO Team 8 30h 16m -
Northumbrian Water METROCENTRE GREEN CAR PARK PS (E7) Tyne 8 29h 38m -
Northumbrian Water JUNCTION OF HEXHAM RD & Derwent 15 26h 54m -
Northumbrian Water VICTORIA RD AT SANDOWN GARDENS CSO Team 7 11h 14m -
Northumbrian Water CORMORANT DRIVE CSO River Team Saline Estuary 4 8h 4m -
Northumbrian Water ROSE STREET CSO River Tyne 6 7h 55m -
Northumbrian Water EASTERN AVENUE CSO Team 4 5h 58m -
Northumbrian Water ALBANY ROAD/SALTMEADOWS ROAD CSO Tyne Saline Estuary 6 5h 38m -
Northumbrian Water CHOWDENE CSO Team, 4 4h 50m -
Northumbrian Water EAST STREET WAS SWINBURN ST END CSO River Tyne 3 1h 36m -
Northumbrian Water CLAVERING RD & RUSKIN RD Derwent Mill Race 2 0h 18m -
Northumbrian Water BEECH STREET CSO Black Burn 1 0h 16m -
Northumbrian Water JUNC OF CLAVERING RD & SWALWEL BANK Derwent Mill Race 2 0h 14m -
Northumbrian Water SOUTHFIELD ROAD CSO Black Burn 1 0h 2m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water NAPIER COURT CSO Black Burn 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water TEAMS CSO JOHNSON STREET E17-105 River Tyne 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 SUNNISIDE CSO Culverted Section Black Burn 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water RIVERSDALE ROAD CSO River Tyne 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water WHICKHAM SOUTH & SUNNISIDE CSO Black Burn Via Sw Sewer 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water WASHINGWELL SCHOOL CSO Black Burn 0 0h 224 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water PIPEWELLGATE PUMPING STATION Tyne Saline Estuary 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 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 Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water ELMWOOD GARDENS Black Burn 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 BENSHAM HOSPITAL CSO Team, River 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 QUAYSIDE (HILLGATE STREET CSO) River Tyne 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water KINGSWAY/PRINCESS STREET CSO Black Burn 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.