Houghton and Sunderland South - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,484 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 862 hours , potential overflows 76 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.

Totals for Houghton and Sunderland South in 2026

Sewage1,484 hours
Monitoring offline862 hours
Potential pollution76 hours
Storm overflows66

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Daily Data

Jan - 303 hours
Feb - 688 hours
Mar - 62 hours
Apr - 3 hours , 254 offline
May - 198 hours , 608 offline
Jun - 7 hours
Jul - 5 hours , 2 potential
Aug - 88 hours
Sept - 1 hours
Oct - 124 hours , 74 potential
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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 46 582h 17m -
Northumbrian Water SHINEY ROW FOOTBRIDGE CSO Herrington Burn 37 214h 20m -
Northumbrian Water GOLDEN LION SPS River Wear 23 109h 47m -
Northumbrian Water POTTERY LANE PS Wear Estuary 15 98h 15m -
Northumbrian Water HETTON ROAD CSO SU33 Rough Dene Burn 37 95h 31m -
Northumbrian Water GILLAS LANE WEST CSO (SU30) Rainton Burn 29 75h 8m -
Northumbrian Water AVENUE VIVIAN CSO SU013 Moors Burn 22 62h 10m -
Northumbrian Water WARDEN GROVE SSO Rainton Burn 27 60h 7m 74 h
Northumbrian Water SEDGELETCH STW Herrington Burn/Moors Burn 19 34h 35m -
Northumbrian Water STANHOPE CLOSE CSO SU 26 Rainton Burn 17 33h 52m -
Northumbrian Water 66 ROSS LEA CSO Herrington Burn 12 21h -
Northumbrian Water HETTON-LE-HOLE SSO NO. 3 Hetton Burn 10 18h 6m -
Northumbrian Water SEDGELETCH BRIDGE CSO Moors Burn 10 15h -
Northumbrian Water BRINKBURN CRESCENT CSO (SU28) Moors Burn, Lumley Park 12 11h 8m -
Northumbrian Water CHURCH STREET NO26 CSO Moors Burn 10 10h 20m -
Northumbrian Water WESTBOURNE DRIVE CSO Herrington Burn 10 9h 56m -
Northumbrian Water HETTON PARK BOWLING GREEN CSO Hetton Burn 12 8h 54m -
Northumbrian Water SEAHAM ROAD CSO SU35 Houghton Burn 10 8h 22m -
Northumbrian Water ELEMORE VALE SPS Hetton Burn 2 2h 6m 862 h
Northumbrian Water ST LUKES ROAD CSO River Wear 3 1h 54m -
Northumbrian Water WEST PARK ESTATE CSO Herrington Burn Via A Culvert 4 1h 30m -
Northumbrian Water BOURN LEA CSO CH087 Herrington Burn 7 1h 20m -
Northumbrian Water HOUGHTON LE SPRING CSO River Wear 2 1h 16m -
Northumbrian Water DAIRY LANE CSO SU024 Rainton Burn 1 1h 12m -
Northumbrian Water OTTERBURN CRESCENT CSO Moors Burn 1 1h 4m -
Northumbrian Water OSMAN TERRACE CSO Moors Burn 2 1h 2m -
Northumbrian Water REAR ST MICHAELS CSO Red Burn 1 0h 56m -
Northumbrian Water BURNSIDE AVENUE CSO Moors Burn 1 0h 50m -
Northumbrian Water A690 SLIP ROAD CSO, SU27 Rainton Burn 4 0h 46m -
Northumbrian Water GILLAS LANE EAST CSO (SU32) Rough Dene Burn 2 0h 34m -
Northumbrian Water HETTON-LE-HOLE DAY CENTRE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW (SU37) Hetton Burn 3 0h 32m -
Northumbrian Water BRINKBURN SSO Red Burn 2 0h 20m 2 h
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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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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.