Top of the Poops | Constituency | Houghton and Sunderland South| Polluted by Northumbrian Water

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Live data for Houghton and Sunderland South in 2025

So far this year (as of May 29, 2025, 1:30 AM) there has been 409 hours of sewage overflows

Totals for Houghton and Sunderland South in 2024

31 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

651 sewage dumps

2,323 hours duration

That's 3.23 months. On average 1.8 times a day

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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 Houghton and Sunderland South, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Houghton and Sunderland South 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 all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn/Moors Burn	SEDGELETCH STW	66	739	96.6
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	GOLDEN LION SPS	42	205	100
Northumbrian Water	Rough Dene Burn	HETTON ROAD CSO SU33	51	181	93.6
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn	SHINEY ROW FOOTBRIDGE CSO	48	177	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Rainton Burn	GILLAS LANE WEST CSO (SU30)	53	158	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Rainton Burn	WARDEN GROVE SSO	53	110	95.5
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn	AVENUE VIVIAN CSO SU013	31	88	94.4
Northumbrian Water	Houghton Burn	SEAHAM ROAD CSO SU35	34	83	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Wear Estuary	POTTERY LANE PS	18	82	70.1
Northumbrian Water	Rainton Burn	STANHOPE CLOSE CSO SU 26	25	75	93.5
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn	66 ROSS LEA CSO	32	72	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	COX GREEN PUMPING STATION	5	56	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	HOUGHTON LE SPRING CSO	31	54	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn	WESTBOURNE DRIVE CSO	25	37	100
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn	CHURCH STREET NO26 CSO	23	35	99.2
Northumbrian Water	Hetton Burn	HETTON PARK BOWLING GREEN CSO	24	34	85.6
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn	SEDGELETCH BRIDGE CSO	19	34	96
Northumbrian Water	Hetton Burn	HETTON-LE-HOLE SSO NO. 3	10	20	100
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn	OSMAN TERRACE CSO	5	16	100
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn	BOURN LEA CSO CH087	8	16	92.2
Northumbrian Water	Rainton Burn	DAIRY LANE CSO SU024	6	9	98
Northumbrian Water	Red Burn	REAR ST MICHAELS CSO	6	7	100
Northumbrian Water	Hetton Burn	HETTON-LE-HOLE SSO NO. 1	6	7	98.5
Northumbrian Water	Hetton Burn	ELEMORE VALE SPS	3	4	100
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn Via A Culvert	WEST PARK ESTATE CSO	6	3	100
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn	OTTERBURN CRESCENT CSO	4	3	98.7
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn, Lumley Park	BRINKBURN CRESCENT CSO (SU28)	4	2	97.5
Northumbrian Water	Rainton Burn	A690 SLIP ROAD CSO, SU27	6	2	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	ST LUKES ROAD	5	1	100
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn	BURNSIDE AVENUE CSO	1	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Rough Dene Burn	GILLAS LANE EAST CSO (SU32)	1	0	95.8
Northumbrian Water	Red Burn	BRINKBURN SSO	0	0	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn	GOLF COURSE ROAD CSO	0	0	99.9

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

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Houghton and Sunderland South Polluted by sewage 651 times in 2024 lasting 2,323 hours

Houghton and Sunderland South