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Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 621 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 721 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West 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 - 142 hours , 418 offline
Feb - 477 hours , 181 offline
Mar - 1 hours , 121 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Northumbrian Water DENTON ROAD CSO NC027 River Tyne 16 95 h 47m -
Northumbrian Water SILVER LONNEN CSO (NC030) River Tyne Estuary 14 68 h 14m 418 h
Northumbrian Water SCOTSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION NO 4 Tyne Saline Estuary 13 59 h 44m -
Northumbrian Water SOUTH BENWELL ROAD CSO River Tyne 4 50 h 49m 98 h
Northumbrian Water SCOTSWOOD ROAD NO3 SPS River Tyne 9 50 h 36m -
Northumbrian Water CSO REDHEUGH BRIDGE Tyne Estuary 11 45 h 14m 9 h
Northumbrian Water BURWELL AVENUE CSO River Tyne Saline Estuary 5 42 h 40m -
Northumbrian Water TYNE VIEW CSO Lemington Gut 9 42 h -
Northumbrian Water MILK MARKET PUMPING STN. Tyne Estuary 15 41 h 26m -
Northumbrian Water NEWBURN HAUGH/RIVERSDALE WAY P STN River Tyne Saline Estuary 3 35 h 18m -
Northumbrian Water CSO WATER STREET Tyne Estuary 4 34 h 18m -
Northumbrian Water CSO DUNN STREET Tyne Estuary 4 23 h 49m -
Northumbrian Water WOOD GROVE CSO (NC029) River Tyne Estuary 8 13 h 16m -
Northumbrian Water BROAD CHARE CSO Tyne Estuary 3 11 h 18m -
Northumbrian Water CSO FORTH BANKS Tyne Estuary 1 1 h 28m -
Northumbrian Water DEAN STREET (HIGH LEVEL) CSO River Tyne 1 1 h 14m -
Northumbrian Water ATKINSON ROAD CSO Tyne Estuary 1 1 h 6m -
Northumbrian Water ESSEX CLOSE CSO Tyne Estuary 1 0 h 58m -
Northumbrian Water DENE AVENUE CSO NC051 Sugley Dene 1 0 h 42m -
Northumbrian Water AMELIA CLOSE CSO - C49/102 Tyne Estuary 1 0 h 41m -
Northumbrian Water TUTHILL STAIRS CSO River Tyne 1 0 h 34m 195 h
Northumbrian Water SCOTSWOOD NO1 SPS River Tyne 1 0 h 13m -
Northumbrian Water Scottswood Road (C49-104) NWL name River Tyne 2 0 h 2m -
Northumbrian Water DENTON DENE NORTH OF WEST ROAD CSO River Tyne 1 0 h 2m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water SCOTSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION NO 2 River Tyne 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Scotswood Road Combined Sewer Overflow (C43 - 105) River Tyne Via A Surface Water Sewer 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water BROADWAY JUNCTION NORWOOD ROAD CSO Sugley Dene 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water BURNSIDE CSO Sugley Dene 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water MICHEL BEARINGS NORTH CSO River Tyne 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water BROADWAY ROAD CSO Tidal River Tyne 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water CLUMBER STREET CSO Tyne Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water CSO 32 WALBOTTLE ROAD New Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water SCOTSWOOD BRIDGE CSO Tyne Saline Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water WEST VIEW CSO Tyne Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.