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Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 2,711 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 1,001 hours , potential overflows 685 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend 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 - 954 hours , 145 potential
Feb - 1,757 hours , 479 potential
Mar - 0 hours , 60 potential
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Northumbrian Water GLASSHOUSE STREET PS River Tyne, North Sea 51 1,163 h 29m -
Northumbrian Water NEW WELBECK ROAD SPS River Tyne 25 425 h 56m -
Northumbrian Water BURN CLOSES CSO Wallsend Burn Estuarine Waters 26 174 h 33m 363 h
Northumbrian Water WHITE STREET/STATION ROAD CSO River Tyne Estuary 24 152 h 8m -
Northumbrian Water DAVY BANK SPS River Tyne 20 129 h 24m -
Northumbrian Water NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CSO River Tyne 14 109 h 30m -
Northumbrian Water OUSEBURN WEST PS River Tyne Saline Estuary 13 79 h 18m -
Northumbrian Water SPILLERS SEWAGE PS River Tyne Saline Estuary 11 69 h 58m -
Northumbrian Water WALLSEND BURN SPS River Tyne 6 57 h 24m 539 h
Northumbrian Water WINCOMBLEE C PUMPING STATION River Tyne Saline Estuary 6 53 h 28m -
Northumbrian Water CHURCH BANK CSO Wallsend Burn Saline Estuary 9 41 h 44m -
Northumbrian Water KILLINGWORTH WAGONWAY CSO Wallsend Burn 9 41 h 26m -
Northumbrian Water FOUNDRY LANE NO 3 CSO Tyne Estuary 8 39 h 20m -
Northumbrian Water STEPHENSON STREET SPS River Tyne 7 34 h 31m -
Northumbrian Water LIME STREET/CUT BANK (2) Ouse Burn Estuary 5 31 h 18m -
Northumbrian Water WINCOMBLEE ROAD CSO River Tyne Saline Estuary 8 28 h 58m -
Northumbrian Water HEATON CSO CORNEL RD Wallsend Burn 10 24 h 36m -
Northumbrian Water STATION ROAD/SWAN HUNTERS CSO Tyne Estuary 5 16 h 14m -
Northumbrian Water CALDBECK AVE POTTERY BANK CSO River Tyne Estuary 1 11 h 22m -
Northumbrian Water POINT PLEASANT PUMPING STATION River Tyne, North Sea 1 7 h 37m -
Northumbrian Water CSO NEPTUNE YARD NO.1 OUTFALL Tyne Estuary 2 7 h 24m -
Northumbrian Water THE SWIRLE CSO Tyne Estuary 4 4 h 29m 98 h
Northumbrian Water CALDBECK CL BELMONT ST ANTHONYS CSO River Tyne Estuary 3 4 h 7m -
Northumbrian Water CSO WELBECK ROAD & BATH STREET Tyne Estuary 3 1 h 52m 539 h
Northumbrian Water NTY025 WILLINGTON QUAY CSO 6 River Tyne 1 1 h 20m -
Northumbrian Water Greenford Road Combined Sewer Overflow River Tyne 1 0 h 145 h
Northumbrian Water POTTER STREET SPS 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 OUSEBURN EAST PS River 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 FOUNDRY LANE NO1 CSO Ouse Burn Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water THE OVAL SPS River Tyne Saline Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water BENTON WAY OUTFALL NO 2 CSO Tyne Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water CALDBECK AVENUE/POTTERY BANK CSO Tyne Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water HOWDON (ADJACENT A19 ROUNDABOUT)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 WINCOMBLEE B PS River 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 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 RIVERSIDE PARK WEST CSO River 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 STATION ROAD/WHITE STREET 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 Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water QUAYSIDE/ST LAWRENCE ROAD CSO River Tyne Saline Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water WHITE STREET STATION ROAD CSO River Tyne Estuary 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.

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