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Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,260 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 7,816 hours , potential overflows 4,157 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 200 hours , 778 offline
Feb - 45 hours , 623 potential
Mar - 4 hours , 744 potential
Apr - 0 hours , 720 potential
May - 25 hours , 744 potential
Jun - 44 hours , 720 potential
Jul - 73 hours , 239 potential
Aug - 19 hours , 804 offline
Sept - 222 hours , 367 potential
Oct - 104 hours , 295 offline
Nov - 345 hours , 190 offline
Dec - 173 hours , 86 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 42 210 h 24m 3,790 h
Northumbrian Water MILK MARKET PUMPING STN. Tyne Estuary 16 116 h 8m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 37 110 h 50m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 50 109 h 59m 23 h
Northumbrian Water DENTON ROAD CSO NC027 River Tyne 21 79 h 34m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 26 59 h 4m -
Northumbrian Water SILVER LONNEN CSO (NC030) River Tyne Estuary 19 43 h 16m -
Northumbrian Water CSO REDHEUGH BRIDGE Tyne Estuary 17 40 h 48m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 14 39 h 4m 7 h
Northumbrian Water BROAD CHARE CSO Tyne Estuary 5 38 h 56m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 20 33 h 48m 2,515 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 13 32 h 26m -
Northumbrian Water SCOTSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION NO 4 Tyne Saline Estuary 15 31 h 36m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 16 29 h 55m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 9 28 h 51m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 17 26 h 51m 7 h
Northumbrian Water TYNE VIEW CSO Lemington Gut 12 24 h 32m -
Northumbrian Water CSO WATER STREET Tyne Estuary 11 22 h 22m -
Northumbrian Water SCOTSWOOD ROAD NO3 SPS River Tyne 10 19 h 44m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 12 19 h 12m 1,056 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 7 18 h 26m 366 h
Northumbrian Water SOUTH BENWELL ROAD CSO River Tyne 5 14 h 59m -
Northumbrian Water CSO DUNN STREET Tyne Estuary 10 14 h 42m -
Northumbrian Water BURWELL AVENUE CSO River Tyne Saline Estuary 10 14 h 30m -
Northumbrian Water WOOD GROVE CSO (NC029) River Tyne Estuary 11 13 h 30m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 4 11 h 4m 522 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 4 9 h 39m 358 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 10 9 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 5 4 h 52m 440 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 8 4 h 30m 351 h
Northumbrian Water CSO FORTH BANKS Tyne Estuary 5 3 h 44m -
Northumbrian Water ATKINSON ROAD CSO Tyne Estuary 8 3 h 6m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 6 3 h 6m -
Northumbrian Water DENE AVENUE CSO NC051 Sugley Dene 6 2 h 10m -
Northumbrian Water NEWBURN HAUGH/RIVERSDALE WAY P STN River Tyne Saline Estuary 2 2 h 276 h
Northumbrian Water AMELIA CLOSE CSO - C49/102 Tyne Estuary 5 1 h 53m -
Northumbrian Water TUTHILL STAIRS CSO River Tyne 4 1 h 40m -
Northumbrian Water DEAN STREET (HIGH LEVEL) CSO River Tyne 2 1 h 30m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 4 1 h 23m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 3 1 h 18m 7 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 6 1 h 12m 23 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 3 0 h 53m 1 h
Northumbrian Water ESSEX CLOSE CSO Tyne Estuary 3 0 h 50m -
Northumbrian Water Scottswood Road (C49-104) NWL name River Tyne 1 0 h 46m -
Northumbrian Water WEST VIEW CSO Tyne Estuary 1 0 h 32m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0 h 28m 236 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0 h 22m -
Northumbrian Water BROADWAY ROAD CSO Tidal River Tyne 2 0 h 16m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 2 0 h 14m 7 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0 h 8m 1,135 h
Northumbrian Water SCOTSWOOD BRIDGE CSO Tyne Saline Estuary 1 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water DENTON DENE NORTH OF WEST ROAD CSO River Tyne 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h 112 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h 689 h
Northumbrian Water SCOTSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION NO 2 River Tyne 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h 7 h
Northumbrian Water BURNSIDE CSO Sugley Dene 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h 7 h
Northumbrian Water CSO 32 WALBOTTLE ROAD New Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Scotswood Road Combined Sewer Overflow (C43 - 105) River Tyne Via A Surface Water Sewer 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water CLUMBER STREET CSO Tyne Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water BROADWAY JUNCTION NORWOOD ROAD CSO Sugley Dene 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water SCOTSWOOD NO1 SPS River Tyne 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h 31 h
Northumbrian Water MICHEL BEARINGS NORTH CSO River Tyne 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h 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.

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