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Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend was polluted by sewage 1,495 times in 2023
lasting 7,540 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend in 2023
33 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
1,495 sewage dumps
7,540 h duration
That's 10.47 months. On average 4.1 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 East and Wallsend 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 3 of the total 37 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 3 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary GLASSHOUSE STREET PS 187 2,533 95.8
Northumbrian Water Wallsend Burn Estuarine Waters BURN CLOSES CSO 120 951 88.6
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary NEW WELBECK ROAD PUMPING STATION 80 832 99.2
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary DAVY BANK PUMPING STATION 95 624 98.1
Northumbrian Water River Tyne NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CSO 102 503 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary OUSEBURN EAST PS 100 357 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO WELBECK ROAD & BATH STREET 80 207 99.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary FOUNDRY LANE NO 3 CSO 74 202 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary CALDBECK AVE POTTERY BANK CSO 34 181 100
Northumbrian Water Ouse Burn Estuary LIME STREET/CUT BANK (2) 49 137 99.8
Northumbrian Water Tyne STEPHENSON STREET PUMPING STATION 52 137 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary THE SWIRLE CSO 63 108 99.9
Northumbrian Water Wallsend Burn Saline Estuary CHURCH BANK CSO 52 102 99.3
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WINCOMBLEE ROAD CSO 47 102 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WINCOMBLEE C PUMPING STATION 37 96 100
Northumbrian Water Wallsend Burn KILLINGWORTH WAGONWAY CSO 34 86 99.6
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary STATION ROAD/SWAN HUNTERS CSO 50 69 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary WESTERN ROAD/ROSEHILL ROAD P ST 24 51 43.1
Northumbrian Water River Tyne PHILLIPSON STREET ROSEHILL CSO 37 46 99
Northumbrian Water Tyne POINT PLEASANT PUMPING STATION 25 45 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary CALDBECK CL BELMONT ST ANTHONYS CSO 36 40 96.6
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary THE OVAL PUMPING STATION 20 26 99.8
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WINCOMBLEE B PUMPING STATION 13 23 87.4
Northumbrian Water Ouse Burn Estuary FOUNDRY LANE NO1 CSO 25 22 97.3
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CSO NEPTUNE YARD NO.1 OUTFALL 19 20 100
Northumbrian Water Wallsend Burn HEATON CSO CORNEL RD 6 13 23.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary POTTER STREET PUMPING STATION 6 5 99.8
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CALDBECK AVENUE/POTTERY BANK CSO 7 2 99.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary BENTON WAY OUTFALL NO 2 CSO 7 2 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne STATION ROAD/WHITE STREET CSO 6 2 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary RIVERSIDE PARK WEST CSO 3 1 95
Northumbrian Water River Tyne HOWDON (ADJACENT A19 ROUNDABOUT)CSO 2 0 99.8
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary QUAYSIDE/ST LAWRENCE ROAD CSO 3 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary OUSEBURN WEST PS 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary WHITE STREET STATION ROAD CSO 0 0 0
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary SPILLERS PUMPING STATION 0 0 0
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuary WHITE STREET STATION ROAD CSO 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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