Houghton and Sunderland South - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,854 hours in 2025

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Houghton and Sunderland South for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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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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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Total Duration (days)
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 22 398 h 43m 16.58
Northumbrian Water SEDGELETCH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS Herrington Burn/Moors Burn 30 377 h 18m 15.71
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 16 142 h 24m 5.92
Northumbrian Water SHINEY ROW FOOTBRIDGE CSO Herrington Burn 22 114 h 40m 4.75
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 21 80 h 28m 3.33
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 11 59 h 53m 2.46
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 10 50 h 41m 2.08
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 18 47 h 51m 1.96
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 22 41 h 27m 1.71
Northumbrian Water HETTON ROAD CSO SU33 Rough Dene Burn 17 39 h 30m 1.62
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 33 38 h 58m 1.58
Northumbrian Water GOLDEN LION SPS River Wear 8 36 h 42m 1.5
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 14 36 h 15m 1.5
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 12 35 h 1m 1.46
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 22 33 h 34m 1.38
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 6 30 h 28m 1.25
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 7 29 h 32m 1.21
Northumbrian Water GILLAS LANE WEST CSO (SU30) Rainton Burn 15 26 h 42m 1.08
Northumbrian Water POTTERY LANE PS Wear Estuary 5 25 h 23m 1.04
Northumbrian Water WARDEN GROVE SSO Rainton Burn 18 24 h 52m 1
Northumbrian Water AVENUE VIVIAN CSO SU013 Moors Burn 15 23 h 14m 0.96
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 11 19 h 12m 0.79
Northumbrian Water 66 ROSS LEA CSO Herrington Burn 8 14 h 30m 0.58
Northumbrian Water STANHOPE CLOSE CSO SU 26 Rainton Burn 10 13 h 12m 0.54
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 10 12 h 56m 0.5
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 6 10 h 43m 0.42
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 10 h 15m 0.42
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 5 8 h 56m 0.33
Northumbrian Water SEDGELETCH BRIDGE CSO Moors Burn 5 7 h 40m 0.29
Northumbrian Water WESTBOURNE DRIVE CSO Herrington Burn 4 6 h 58m 0.25
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 6 6 h 53m 0.25
Northumbrian Water BRINKBURN CRESCENT CSO (SU28) Moors Burn, Lumley Park 6 6 h 40m 0.25
Northumbrian Water CHURCH STREET NO26 CSO Moors Burn 7 6 h 26m 0.25
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 3 6 h 13m 0.25
Northumbrian Water ELEMORE VALE SPS Hetton Burn 2 5 h 22m 0.21
Northumbrian Water HETTON-LE-HOLE SSO NO. 3 Hetton Burn 3 4 h 44m 0.17
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 2 4 h 2m 0.17
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 5 3 h 24m 0.12
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 5 2 h 14m 0.08
Northumbrian Water SEAHAM ROAD CSO SU35 Houghton Burn 4 2 h 8m 0.08
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 2 2 h 4m 0.08
Northumbrian Water BOURN LEA CSO CH087 Herrington Burn 1 1 h 28m 0.04
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 3 1 h 4m 0.04
Northumbrian Water HETTON PARK BOWLING GREEN CSO Hetton Burn 1 0 h 52m 0
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 2 0 h 50m 0
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 3 0 h 38m 0
Northumbrian Water HETTON-LE-HOLE DAY CENTRE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW (SU37) Hetton Burn 1 0 h 38m 0
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0 h 32m 0
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0 h 15m 0
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 3 0 h 12m 0
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 2 0 h 7m 0
Northumbrian Water WEST PARK ESTATE CSO Herrington Burn Via A Culvert 2 0 h 4m 0
Northumbrian Water BURNSIDE AVENUE CSO Moors Burn 0 0 h 0
Northumbrian Water BRINKBURN SSO Red Burn 0 0 h 0
Northumbrian Water A690 SLIP ROAD CSO, SU27 Rainton Burn 0 0 h 0
Northumbrian Water GILLAS LANE EAST CSO (SU32) Rough Dene Burn 0 0 h 0
Northumbrian Water ST LUKES ROAD CSO River Wear 0 0 h 0
Northumbrian Water REAR ST MICHAELS CSO Red Burn 0 0 h 0
Northumbrian Water OTTERBURN CRESCENT CSO Moors Burn 0 0 h 0
Northumbrian Water DAIRY LANE CSO SU024 Rainton Burn 0 0 h 0
Northumbrian Water GOLF COURSE ROAD CSO Herrington Burn 0 0 h 0
Northumbrian Water OSMAN TERRACE CSO Moors Burn 0 0 h 0
Northumbrian Water SEDGELETCH STW Herrington Burn/Moors Burn 0 0 h 0
Northumbrian Water HOUGHTON LE SPRING CSO River Wear 0 0 h 0

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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