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Houghton and Sunderland South - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 992 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 320 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Houghton and Sunderland South 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 - 303 hours
Feb - 688 hours , 265 offline
Mar - 0 hours , 55 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Northumbrian Water SEDGELETCH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS Herrington Burn/Moors Burn 28 459 h 13m -
Northumbrian Water SHINEY ROW FOOTBRIDGE CSO Herrington Burn 22 180 h 38m -
Northumbrian Water GOLDEN LION SPS River Wear 8 79 h 43m -
Northumbrian Water HETTON ROAD CSO SU33 Rough Dene Burn 10 53 h 6m -
Northumbrian Water GILLAS LANE WEST CSO (SU30) Rainton Burn 9 49 h 10m -
Northumbrian Water AVENUE VIVIAN CSO SU013 Moors Burn 8 46 h 10m -
Northumbrian Water WARDEN GROVE SSO Rainton Burn 8 36 h 56m -
Northumbrian Water POTTERY LANE PS Wear Estuary 3 35 h 20m -
Northumbrian Water STANHOPE CLOSE CSO SU 26 Rainton Burn 5 24 h 56m -
Northumbrian Water 66 ROSS LEA CSO Herrington Burn 4 9 h 58m -
Northumbrian Water SEDGELETCH BRIDGE CSO Moors Burn 4 7 h 34m -
Northumbrian Water CHURCH STREET NO26 CSO Moors Burn 2 3 h 24m -
Northumbrian Water BRINKBURN CRESCENT CSO (SU28) Moors Burn, Lumley Park 4 3 h 8m -
Northumbrian Water WESTBOURNE DRIVE CSO Herrington Burn 3 1 h 58m -
Northumbrian Water SEAHAM ROAD CSO SU35 Houghton Burn 1 0 h 52m -
Northumbrian Water HETTON-LE-HOLE SSO NO. 3 Hetton Burn 1 0 h 6m -
Northumbrian Water WEST PARK ESTATE CSO Herrington Burn Via A Culvert 2 0 h 4m -
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 BURNSIDE AVENUE CSO Moors Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water BRINKBURN SSO Red 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 A690 SLIP ROAD CSO, SU27 Rainton Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water GILLAS LANE EAST CSO (SU32) Rough Dene Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water ST LUKES ROAD CSO River Wear 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water HETTON-LE-HOLE DAY CENTRE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW (SU37) Hetton Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water REAR ST MICHAELS CSO Red 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 Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water HETTON PARK BOWLING GREEN CSO Hetton Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water BOURN LEA CSO CH087 Herrington Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water OTTERBURN CRESCENT CSO Moors Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water ELEMORE VALE SPS Hetton Burn 0 0 h 320 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water DAIRY LANE CSO SU024 Rainton 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 GOLF COURSE ROAD CSO Herrington Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water OSMAN TERRACE CSO Moors 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 SEDGELETCH STW Herrington Burn/Moors 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 HOUGHTON LE SPRING CSO River Wear 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 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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