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Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West

Polluted by sewage 585 times in 2025 lasting 1,239 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Live data for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 956 hours of sewage overflows, from 68 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West in 2025

26 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
585 sewage dumps
1,239 hours duration
That's 1.72 months. On average 1.6 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West 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 1 of the total 32 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary BROAD CHARE CSO 43 246 39.8
Northumbrian Water River Tyne DENTON ROAD CSO NC027 78 185 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary MILK MARKET PUMPING STATION 29 145 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary SILVER LONNEN CSO (NC030) 54 121 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO REDHEUGH BRIDGE 46 101 99.8
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SCOTSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION NO 4 33 65 63.1
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO WATER STREET 26 54 99.8
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary BURWELL AVENUE CSO 23 54 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO DUNN STREET 26 46 99.8
Northumbrian Water Lemington Gut TYNE VIEW CSO 30 46 87.1
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary WOOD GROVE CSO (NC029) 38 45 99.8
Northumbrian Water River Tyne SOUTH BENWELL ROAD CSO 17 34 99.6
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SCOTSWOOD ROAD/DENTON BURN PS 23 30 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO FORTH BANKS 17 15 96.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary NEWBURN HAUGH/RIVERSDALE WAY P STN 5 11 92.6
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary ATKINSON ROAD CSO 19 9 100
Northumbrian Water Sugley Dene DENE AVENUE CSO NC051 17 8 94.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary ESSEX CLOSE CSO 10 4 90.2
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary AMELIA CLOSE CSO - C49/102 11 4 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary TUTHILL STAIRS CSO 15 3 97.3
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary WEST VIEW CSO 7 1 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary DEAN STREET CSO 2 1 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne DENTON DENE NORTH OF WEST ROAD CSO 7 1 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne SCOTSWOOD NO1 SPS 4 0 85.4
Northumbrian Water Tidal River Tyne BROADWAY ROAD CSO 4 0 98.4
Northumbrian Water Sugley Dene BURNSIDE CSO 1 0 100
Northumbrian Water Sugley Dene BROADWAY JUNCTION NORWOOD ROAD CSO 0 0 93.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CLUMBER STREET CSO 0 0 97.3
Northumbrian Water River Tyne MICHEL BEARINGS NORTH CSO 0 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary NEWBURN INDUSTRIAL ESTATE P STN 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SCOTSWOOD BRIDGE CSO 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne SCOTSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION NO 2 0 0 89.5

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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