Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend was polluted by sewage 1,447 times in 2024
lasting 6,405 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 6:15 PM) there has been 860 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend in 2024
36 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
1,447 sewage dumps
6,405 h duration
That's 8.9 months. On average 4 times a day
Change Over Time
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Daily Data
We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend in 2024. 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 37 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 River Tyne Saline Estuary GLASSHOUSE STREET PS 180 2,019 98.4
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary NEW WELBECK ROAD PUMPING STATION 70 639 95.3
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary DAVY BANK PUMPING STATION 79 466 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CSO 87 454 97.6
Northumbrian Water Wallsend Burn Estuarine Waters BURN CLOSES CSO 77 399 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary WHITE STREET STATION ROAD CSO 91 376 90.1
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary OUSEBURN WEST PS 70 325 28.4
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary OUSEBURN EAST PS 99 319 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary FOUNDRY LANE NO 3 CSO 77 203 100
Northumbrian Water Wallsend Burn Saline Estuary CHURCH BANK CSO 53 134 99.1
Northumbrian Water Tyne STEPHENSON STREET PUMPING STATION 37 127 88.1
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary CALDBECK AVE POTTERY BANK CSO 33 122 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary THE SWIRLE CSO 61 97 100
Northumbrian Water Ouse Burn Estuary LIME STREET/CUT BANK (2) 35 85 99.5
Northumbrian Water Wallsend Burn KILLINGWORTH WAGONWAY CSO 33 82 98.2
Northumbrian Water River Tyne PHILLIPSON STREET ROSEHILL CSO 48 80 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WINCOMBLEE C PUMPING STATION 24 75 73.2
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WINCOMBLEE ROAD CSO 37 71 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary STATION ROAD/SWAN HUNTERS CSO 42 69 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne POINT PLEASANT PUMPING STATION 25 57 100
Northumbrian Water Wallsend Burn HEATON CSO CORNEL RD 28 41 70.3
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary CALDBECK CL BELMONT ST ANTHONYS CSO 29 33 71.3
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO WELBECK ROAD & BATH STREET 29 23 98.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO NEPTUNE YARD NO.1 OUTFALL 23 22 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary SPILLERS PUMPING STATION 4 21 9
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary POTTER STREET PUMPING STATION 4 16 100
Northumbrian Water Ouse Burn Estuary FOUNDRY LANE NO1 CSO 15 10 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary WHITE STREET STATION ROAD CSO 18 7 90.1
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary THE OVAL PUMPING STATION 12 6 99.5
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WINCOMBLEE B PUMPING STATION 1 3 85.1
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CALDBECK AVENUE/POTTERY BANK CSO 9 3 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne STATION ROAD/WHITE STREET CSO 1 3 84.5
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary QUAYSIDE/ST LAWRENCE ROAD CSO 3 2 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary RIVERSIDE PARK WEST CSO 9 1 97.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary BENTON WAY OUTFALL NO 2 CSO 3 0 93.3
Northumbrian Water River Tyne HOWDON (ADJACENT A19 ROUNDABOUT)CSO 1 0 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary WESTERN ROAD/ROSEHILL ROAD P ST 0 0 0

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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