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Middlesbrough and Thornaby East - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 761 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 1,316 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Middlesbrough and Thornaby East 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 - 118 hours , 200 offline
Feb - 278 hours , 243 offline
Mar - 286 hours , 701 offline
Apr - 0 hours , 171 offline
May - 77 hours
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Northumbrian Water CARGO FLEET FOUL SEWAGE PUMPING STATION Ormsby Beck 33 371h 58m -
Northumbrian Water CARGO FLEET FOUL SEWAGE PUMPING STATION Ormsby Beck 30 133h 30m -
Northumbrian Water NEWPORT ROAD CSO River Tees Estuary 12 131h 45m 200 h
Northumbrian Water LEVEN ROAD CSO Ormesby Beck 9 32h 44m -
Northumbrian Water ACKLAM ROAD CSO Old River Tees 6 21h 22m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 10 15h 15m -
Northumbrian Water ACKLAM ROAD CSO Old River Tees 6 13h -
Northumbrian Water PRIORY ROAD CSO Old River Tees 6 10h 54m -
Northumbrian Water SUN STREET CSO River Tees 6 7h 56m -
Northumbrian Water OLD RIVER TEES SPS Old River Tees 6 6h 32m -
Northumbrian Water GROVE ROAD CSO M009 Ormesby Beck 3 3h 58m -
Northumbrian Water VULCAN STREET PUMP STN River Tees 2 3h 2m -
Northumbrian Water SNOWDON ROAD PS River Tees 4 2h 54m -
Northumbrian Water SUN STREET CSO River Tees 4 2h 28m -
Northumbrian Water ACKLAM ROAD CSO Old River Tees 2 1h 25m -
Northumbrian Water STAINSBY ROAD CSO Old River Tees 2 0h 56m 171 h
Northumbrian Water CSO AT GREEN LANE Tees 2 0h 46m -
Northumbrian Water JAMES STREET SSO Middle Beck 3 0h 26m -
Northumbrian Water STATION STREET CSO Tees Estuary 3 0h 24m -
Northumbrian Water DEEPDALE AVENUE NO2 CSO (M007) Marton West Beck 1 0h 18m -
Northumbrian Water THORNTON STREET PS Middle Beck 1 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water OAKFIELD ROAD CSO Ormesby Beck 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water A66 RIDER SEWER CSO Old River Tees 0 0h 622 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water RAVENSCROFT AVE CSO Marton West Beck 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water CORNFIELD ROAD PUMPING STATION Tees Estuary 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water ALLENSWAY CSO Stainsby Beck 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water VERONICA STREET CSO Ormesby Beck 0 0h 322 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water TEDDER AVENUE SSO Stainsby Beck 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -

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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