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Middlesbrough and Thornaby East

Polluted by sewage 1,463 times in 2025 lasting 1,859 hours

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Live data for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 761 hours of sewage overflows, from 56 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East in 2025

22 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
1,463 sewage dumps
1,859 hours duration
That's 2.58 months. On average 4 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East in 2025. 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Ormsby Beck CARGO FLEET STW (OUTLET B) 168 1,059 99.95
Northumbrian Water Old River Tees ACKLAM ROAD CSO 66 196 89.2
Northumbrian Water Tees Estuary SUN STREET STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 36 124 99.25
Northumbrian Water Ormesby Beck LEVEN ROAD CSO 21 81 92.6
Northumbrian Water Old River Tees PRIORY ROAD CSO 29 79 98.9
Northumbrian Water River Tees ACKLAM STREET OUTFALL 44 60 100
Northumbrian Water Old River Tees OLD RIVER TEES PUMPING STATION 25 58 100
Northumbrian Water Tees Estuary CORNFIELD ROAD PUMPING STATION 6 28 99.9
Northumbrian Water Ormesby Beck GROVE ROAD CSO M009 14 27 99.7
Northumbrian Water Old River Tees STAINSBY ROAD CSO 7 26 74.3
Northumbrian Water Tees Estuary STATION STREET CSO 25 25 97.3
Northumbrian Water River Tees VULCAN STREET OUTFALL 8 23 90.4
Northumbrian Water River Tees Estuary NEWPORT ROAD CSO 960 21 97.7
Northumbrian Water River Tees SNOWDON ROAD PS 23 15 99.9
Northumbrian Water Ormesby Beck VERONICA STREET CSO 4 12 97.9
Northumbrian Water Ormesby Beck OAKFIELD ROAD CSO 5 3 99.5
Northumbrian Water Middle Beck THORNTON STREET PS 5 2 100
Northumbrian Water Old River Tees A66 RIDER SEWER CSO 4 2 97
Northumbrian Water Middle Beck JAMES STREET SSO 5 2 91
Northumbrian Water Marton West Beck DEEPDALE AVENUE NO2 CSO (M007) 4 2 98.9
Northumbrian Water Stainsby Beck TEDDER AVENUE SSO 2 2 94.3
Northumbrian Water Marton West Beck RAVENSCROFT AVE CSO 2 1 99.3
Northumbrian Water Stainsby Beck ALLENSWAY CSO 0 0 99.3

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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