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Hartlepool

Polluted by sewage 549 times in 2025 lasting 2,950 hours

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

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Live data for Hartlepool in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 1,402 hours of sewage overflows, from 61 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Hartlepool in 2025

21 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
549 sewage dumps
2,950 hours duration
That's 4.1 months. On average 1.5 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Hartlepool 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 24 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 Seaton Channel GRAYTHORP STW 94 1,348 96.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea BILLINGHAM STW 105 479 99.42
Northumbrian Water North Sea SEATON CAREW SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 68 235 99.8
Northumbrian Water Greatham Beck GREATHAM STW 84 213 99.6
Northumbrian Water Slake CLEVLAND ROAD C.S.O. 28 204 91.3
Northumbrian Water North Sea BRUS SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 35 167 99.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea MAINSFORTH TERRACE PS 35 129 31.1
Northumbrian Water Dalton Beck DALTON PIERCY SPS 15 68 93
Northumbrian Water North Sea BRIDGE STREET PUMPING STATION 10 30 99.9
Northumbrian Water Hart Beck CSO TO REAR OF 8 OTTERINGTON CLOSE 22 23 93.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea GLENTOWER GROVE SPS 3 19 100
Northumbrian Water Greatham Beck WEST ROW CSO HP008 12 10 94.6
Northumbrian Water North Sea KING OSWY DRIVE CSO 11 9 99.3
Northumbrian Water Char Beck ELWICK SPS 13 3 98.6
Northumbrian Water Stream Hartlepool Bay CSO AT REAR OF HOLLY HOUSE 4 3 95.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea THORPE STREET SPS 2 2 99.9
Northumbrian Water Stell BRENDA ROAD/PARK VIEW CSO 3 1 99.7
Northumbrian Water Stell BRENDA ROAD/PARK VIEW CSO 2 0 85.9
Northumbrian Water North Sea KING OSWY DRIVE CSO 1 0 98.2
Northumbrian Water Stell, SOUTHERN MAIN DRAINAGE SEWER 1 0 100
Northumbrian Water Burn Valley Beck CONISCLIFFE ROAD CSO 1 0 99.5
Northumbrian Water North Sea ALBION TERRACE STORM RETENTION 0 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water Unnamed Watercourse CLIFTON LODGE CSO 0 0 89.4
Northumbrian Water Char Beck THE GREEN COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 99.7

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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