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Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 3,107 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 12,094 hours , potential overflows 4,715 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend 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 - 451 hours , 15 potential
Feb - 62 hours , 672 offline
Mar - 19 hours , 798 offline
Apr - 6 hours , 667 potential
May - 69 hours , 744 potential
Jun - 49 hours , 720 potential
Jul - 156 hours , 744 potential
Aug - 24 hours , 744 potential
Sept - 386 hours , 479 potential
Oct - 195 hours , 690 offline
Nov - 974 hours , 588 potential
Dec - 710 hours , 12 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 42 855 h 20m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 84 460 h 40m 366 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 32 116 h 28m -
Northumbrian Water SPILLERS SEWAGE PS River Tyne Saline Estuary 22 116 h 6m -
Northumbrian Water BURN CLOSES CSO Wallsend Burn Estuarine Waters 22 101 h 48m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 38 97 h 55m -
Northumbrian Water WHITE STREET/STATION ROAD CSO River Tyne Estuary 21 93 h 21m -
Northumbrian Water NEW WELBECK ROAD SPS River Tyne 14 89 h 19m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 31 86 h 43m 7 h
Northumbrian Water DAVY BANK SPS River Tyne 20 82 h 38m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 21 74 h 39m 987 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 19 72 h 55m 46 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 13 72 h 53m 7 h
Northumbrian Water NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE CSO River Tyne 5 58 h 29m -
Northumbrian Water OUSEBURN WEST PS River Tyne Saline Estuary 17 55 h 17m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 26 51 h 16m 181 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 20 51 h 14m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 21 44 h 12m 2,715 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 14 42 h 56m 432 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 15 40 h 38m 21 h
Northumbrian Water FOUNDRY LANE NO 3 CSO Tyne Estuary 15 39 h 8m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 9 29 h 30m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 16 25 h 7m 35 h
Northumbrian Water STEPHENSON STREET SPS River Tyne 9 24 h 56m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 14 24 h 56m 600 h
Northumbrian Water CALDBECK AVE POTTERY BANK CSO River Tyne Estuary 6 23 h 23m -
Northumbrian Water WINCOMBLEE C PUMPING STATION River Tyne Saline Estuary 6 22 h 44m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 20 22 h 15 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 13 21 h 9m 2,998 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 10 18 h 53m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 12 17 h 33m 21 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 9 16 h 24m 79 h
Northumbrian Water STATION ROAD/SWAN HUNTERS CSO Tyne Estuary 10 15 h 55m -
Northumbrian Water WINCOMBLEE ROAD CSO River Tyne Saline Estuary 8 11 h 34m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 11 11 h 32m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 12 11 h 10m 1,112 h
Northumbrian Water HEATON CSO CORNEL RD Wallsend Burn 10 11 h 4m -
Northumbrian Water CHURCH BANK CSO Wallsend Burn Saline Estuary 7 10 h 50m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 14 10 h 3m 4,548 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 4 10 h 176 h
Northumbrian Water THE SWIRLE CSO Tyne Estuary 8 9 h 20m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 8 8 h 50m -
Northumbrian Water POINT PLEASANT PUMPING STATION River Tyne, North Sea 6 8 h 22m -
Northumbrian Water KILLINGWORTH WAGONWAY CSO Wallsend Burn 6 6 h 58m -
Northumbrian Water CALDBECK CL BELMONT ST ANTHONYS CSO River Tyne Estuary 5 4 h 42m -
Northumbrian Water CSO NEPTUNE YARD NO.1 OUTFALL Tyne Estuary 4 3 h 43m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 6 3 h 39m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 5 2 h 24m -
Northumbrian Water CSO WELBECK ROAD & BATH STREET Tyne Estuary 6 2 h 24m -
Northumbrian Water LIME STREET/CUT BANK (2) Ouse Burn Estuary 2 2 h 8m -
Northumbrian Water NTY025 WILLINGTON QUAY CSO 6 River Tyne 6 2 h 1m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 2 1 h 51m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 3 1 h 39m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 2 1 h 27m 287 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 7 1 h 15m 608 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 7 0 h 56m 7 h
Northumbrian Water WHITE STREET STATION ROAD CSO River Tyne Estuary 2 0 h 45m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 3 0 h 44m -
Northumbrian Water FOUNDRY LANE NO1 CSO Ouse Burn Estuary 2 0 h 34m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 12 0 h 32m 1,023 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0 h 8m 47 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 3 0 h 5m 36 h
Northumbrian Water WINCOMBLEE B PS River Tyne Saline Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water WALLSEND BURN SPS River Tyne 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water QUAYSIDE/ST LAWRENCE ROAD CSO River Tyne Saline Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water THE OVAL SPS River Tyne Saline Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Greenford Road Combined Sewer Overflow River Tyne 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h 436 h
Northumbrian Water OUSEBURN EAST PS River Tyne Saline Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water POTTER STREET SPS River Tyne 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water BENTON WAY OUTFALL NO 2 CSO Tyne Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water HOWDON (ADJACENT A19 ROUNDABOUT)CSO River Tyne 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h 8 h
Northumbrian Water CALDBECK AVENUE/POTTERY BANK CSO Tyne Estuary 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water STATION ROAD/WHITE STREET CSO River Tyne 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water RIVERSIDE PARK WEST CSO River Tyne Saline Estuary 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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