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Middlesbrough and Thornaby East was polluted by sewage 652 times in 2023
lasting 2,051 hours

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Totals for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East in 2023
21 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
652 sewage dumps
2,051 h duration
That's 2.85 months. On average 1.8 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Middlesbrough and Thornaby East in 2023. 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 0 of the total 23 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Ormsby Beck CARGO FLEET STW (OUTLET B) 200 1,235 99.95
Northumbrian Water Old River Tees ACKLAM ROAD CSO 73 187 73.93
Northumbrian Water Tees Estuary SUN STREET STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 82 159 96.65
Northumbrian Water Ormesby Beck LEVEN ROAD CSO 24 82 100
Northumbrian Water Ormesby Beck GROVE ROAD CSO M009 20 59 100
Northumbrian Water Old River Tees PRIORY ROAD CSO 31 57 99.6
Northumbrian Water Old River Tees OLD RIVER TEES PUMPING STATION 26 45 100
Northumbrian Water River Tees ACKLAM STREET OUTFALL 60 43 99.8
Northumbrian Water Ormesby Beck VERONICA STREET CSO 6 40 100
Northumbrian Water River Tees Estuary NEWPORT ROAD CSO 48 38 97.6
Northumbrian Water Tees Estuary CORNFIELD ROAD PUMPING STATION 6 19 96.4
Northumbrian Water Old River Tees STAINSBY ROAD CSO 9 18 87.3
Northumbrian Water Ormesby Beck OAKFIELD ROAD CSO 3 13 96.3
Northumbrian Water Tees Estuary STATION STREET CSO 31 12 96
Northumbrian Water Stainsby Beck TEDDER AVENUE SSO 9 11 88.4
Northumbrian Water River Tees VULCAN STREET OUTFALL 3 9 99.8
Northumbrian Water Marton West Beck RAVENSCROFT AVE CSO 3 5 100
Northumbrian Water Middle Beck THORNTON STREET PS 6 4 99.9
Northumbrian Water Middle Beck JAMES STREET SSO 5 4 96.3
Northumbrian Water Old River Tees A66 RIDER SEWER CSO 4 3 88.4
Northumbrian Water Marton West Beck DEEPDALE AVENUE NO2 CSO (M007) 3 1 100
Northumbrian Water Stainsby Beck ALLENSWAY CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Tees SNOWDON ROAD PS 0 0 48

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. This uses Environment Agency rainfall data from the real-time data API (Beta) - Rainfall data is delayed by up to two days.

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