Houghton and Sunderland South polluted by sewage 464 times in 2022 - lasting 753 hours

© OpenStreetMap contributors
Contains OS Data © Crown copyright & database right 2021-2022
© Top of the Poops 2021-2023
✔ means we have experimental daily data for 2023
Totals for Houghton and Sunderland South in 2022
29 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
464 sewage dumps
753 h duration
That's 1.05 months. On average 1.3 times a day

Pollution Summary 2022

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Houghton and Sunderland South in 2022. Sometimes sewage can be being dumped for months at a time.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Rough Dene Burn HETTON ROAD CSO SU33 51 100 98.8
Northumbrian Water Houghton Burn SEAHAM ROAD CSO SU35 37 84 99.8
Northumbrian Water Herrington Burn SHINEY ROW FOOTBRIDGE CSO 33 79 88.1
Northumbrian Water Rainton Burn STANHOPE CLOSE CSO SU 26 34 60 92.6
Northumbrian Water Rainton Burn GILLAS LANE WEST CSO (SU30) 34 58 100
Northumbrian Water Rainton Burn WARDEN GROVE SSO 40 53 94.6
Northumbrian Water Herrington Burn 66 ROSS LEA CSO 27 45 99.7
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn AVENUE VIVIAN CSO SU013 18 44 100
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn CHURCH STREET NO26 CSO 25 31 88.9
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn SEDGELETCH BRIDGE CSO 23 29 100
Northumbrian Water Herrington Burn WESTBOURNE DRIVE CSO 21 26 99.7
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn OSMAN TERRACE CSO 8 21 99.8
Northumbrian Water River Wear HOUGHTON LE SPRING CSO 23 17 97.3
Northumbrian Water River Wear COX GREEN PUMPING STATION 2 17 100
Northumbrian Water Hetton Burn HETTON-LE-HOLE SSO NO. 3 13 16 89
Northumbrian Water Rainton Burn DAIRY LANE CSO SU024 7 16 100
Northumbrian Water Herrington Burn BOURN LEA CSO CH087 8 11 99.9
Northumbrian Water Hetton Burn HETTON-LE-HOLE SSO NO. 1 12 8 100
Northumbrian Water Red Burn REAR ST MICHAELS CSO 7 7 91.4
Northumbrian Water Hetton Burn HETTON PARK BOWLING GREEN CSO 9 6 99.7
Northumbrian Water Rainton Burn A690 SLIP ROAD CSO, SU27 9 5 100
Northumbrian Water Herrington Burn Via A Culvert WEST PARK ESTATE CSO 8 4 100
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn OTTERBURN CRESCENT CSO 3 3 92.2
Northumbrian Water Red Burn BRINKBURN SSO 3 1 99.4
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn, Lumley Park BRINKBURN CRESCENT CSO (SU28) 2 1 88.7
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn BURNSIDE AVENUE CSO 3 1 98.7
Northumbrian Water Rough Dene Burn GILLAS LANE EAST CSO (SU32) 1 1 99.7
Northumbrian Water Hetton Burn ELEMORE VALE SPS 2 0 100
Northumbrian Water Herrington Burn GOLF COURSE ROAD CSO 1 0 100
Northumbrian Water Herrington Burn/Moors Burn SEDGELETCH STW 0 0 0

Data Sources & Accuracy

EDM (Event Duration Monitoring) data and Consented Discharges to Controlled Waters with Conditions from Environment Agency & Data Map Wales

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.

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.