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

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Live data for Houghton and Sunderland South in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 1:15 PM) there has been 372 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Houghton and Sunderland South in 2024
31 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
651 sewage dumps
2,323 h duration
That's 3.23 months. On average 1.8 times a day
Change Over Time
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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.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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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 0 of the total 33 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

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

Experimental derived data from Thames Water API, Some data may be missing or inaccurate. This 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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