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Gateshead Central and Whickham - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,895 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 1,774 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 , 744 offline
Feb - 1,403 hours , 909 offline
Mar - 0 hours , 121 offline
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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 21 190 h 42m -
Northumbrian Water THE GREEN MARKET CSO River Team 24 171 h 38m -
Northumbrian Water SOUTH SHORE ROAD EAST PUMPING STN Tyne Saline Estuary 27 165 h 46m -
Northumbrian Water GELLESFIELD CSO Black Burn 19 160 h 6m -
Northumbrian Water DUNSTON FLOUR MILL (WEST) CSO River Tyne Saline Estuary 11 134 h 50m -
Northumbrian Water WELLINGTON ROAD CSO (E9-102) River Tyne 13 134 h -
Northumbrian Water CSO AT TEAM STREET River Team 11 124 h 46m -
Northumbrian Water MARKET LANE CSO Tyne 15 120 h 18m -
Northumbrian Water CSO ON WHICKHAM AND GATESHEAD SEWER Team 14 107 h 19m -
Northumbrian Water STAITHES ROAD CSO River Team 10 95 h 43m -
Northumbrian Water TEAMS CSO JOHNSON STREET E17-105 River Tyne 17 83 h 19m -
Northumbrian Water SOUTH SHORE ROAD CSO Tyne Saline Estuary 14 56 h -
Northumbrian Water BENSHAM SIDINGS CSO Team 10 55 h 27m -
Northumbrian Water PINEWOOD GARDENS CSO Black Burn 9 46 h 12m -
Northumbrian Water BENSHAM CSO River Team Estuarine Waters 3 36 h 40m -
Northumbrian Water LOW FELL (TVTE) CSO Culverted Section River Team 7 35 h 36m -
Northumbrian Water NO2 ESKDALE GARDENS CSO Team 5 27 h 12m -
Northumbrian Water METROCENTRE GREEN CAR PARK PS (E7) Tyne 7 27 h 4m -
Northumbrian Water SEVENTH AVENUE CSO Team 6 26 h 30m -
Northumbrian Water SWINBURNE STREET CSO River Tyne 9 25 h 49m -
Northumbrian Water HIGH WEST STREET CSO (G066) Tyne Estuary 8 22 h 16m -
Northumbrian Water JUNCTION OF HEXHAM RD & Derwent 6 14 h 36m -
Northumbrian Water VICTORIA RD AT SANDOWN GARDENS CSO Team 3 7 h -
Northumbrian Water ROSE STREET CSO River Tyne 3 6 h 12m -
Northumbrian Water CORMORANT DRIVE CSO River Team Saline Estuary 3 6 h 2m -
Northumbrian Water EASTERN AVENUE CSO Team 3 5 h 34m -
Northumbrian Water CHOWDENE CSO Team, 4 4 h 50m -
Northumbrian Water ALBANY ROAD/SALTMEADOWS ROAD CSO Tyne Saline Estuary 2 3 h 12m -
Northumbrian Water EAST STREET WAS SWINBURN ST END CSO River Tyne 1 0 h 55m -
Northumbrian Water CLAVERING RD & RUSKIN RD Derwent Mill Race 1 0 h 16m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water NAPIER COURT CSO Black Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water TEAMS CSO JOHNSON STREET E17-105 River Tyne 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water SUNNISIDE CSO Culverted Section Black Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water RIVERSDALE ROAD CSO River Tyne 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water WHICKHAM SOUTH & SUNNISIDE CSO Black Burn Via Sw Sewer 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water WASHINGWELL SCHOOL CSO Black Burn 0 0 h 298 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water PIPEWELLGATE PUMPING STATION Tyne Saline Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water JUNC OF CLAVERING RD & SWALWEL BANK Derwent Mill Race 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water ELMWOOD GARDENS Black Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water BENSHAM HOSPITAL CSO Team, River 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water QUAYSIDE (HILLGATE STREET CSO) River Tyne 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water KINGSWAY/PRINCESS STREET CSO Black Burn 0 0 h 1,476 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water SOUTHFIELD ROAD CSO Black Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water BEECH STREET CSO Black Burn 0 0 h -

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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