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Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West was polluted by sewage 1,024 times in 2023
lasting 3,198 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West in 2023
25 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
1,024 sewage dumps
3,198 h duration
That's 4.44 months. On average 2.8 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West 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 1 of the total 32 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary BROAD CHARE CSO 116 1,065 78.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne DENTON ROAD CSO NC027 108 454 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary SILVER LONNEN CSO (NC030) 93 329 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary BURWELL AVENUE CSO 68 223 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO WATER STREET 54 187 100
Northumbrian Water Lemington Gut TYNE VIEW CSO 59 175 90.6
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO DUNN STREET 54 151 97
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary WOOD GROVE CSO (NC029) 73 114 80.2
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO REDHEUGH BRIDGE 44 100 73.1
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary NEWBURN HAUGH/RIVERSDALE WAY P STN 18 93 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne SOUTH BENWELL ROAD CSO 42 83 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO FORTH BANKS 43 61 92
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SCOTSWOOD ROAD/DENTON BURN PS 28 35 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary ATKINSON ROAD CSO 37 28 100
Northumbrian Water Sugley Dene DENE AVENUE CSO NC051 22 21 95.6
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary ESSEX CLOSE CSO 35 21 98
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary AMELIA CLOSE CSO - C49/102 26 16 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne DENTON DENE NORTH OF WEST ROAD CSO 26 13 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary TUTHILL STAIRS CSO 35 8 99.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary WEST VIEW CSO 19 6 100
Northumbrian Water Sugley Dene BURNSIDE CSO 8 1 96.5
Northumbrian Water Tidal River Tyne BROADWAY ROAD CSO 9 1 87.1
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SCOTSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION NO 4 3 1 2.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SCOTSWOOD BRIDGE CSO 1 0 92.9
Northumbrian Water Sugley Dene BROADWAY JUNCTION NORWOOD ROAD CSO 3 0 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary DEAN STREET CSO 0 0 71.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne MICHEL BEARINGS NORTH CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CLUMBER STREET CSO 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne SCOTSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION NO 2 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary NEWBURN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE P STN 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary MILK MARKET PUMPING STATION 0 0 0
Northumbrian Water River Tyne SCOTSWOOD NO1 SPS 0 0 42

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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