North Durham was polluted by sewage 1,884 times in 2024
lasting 10,827 hours - that's 1.25 years!
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for North Durham in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 8:15 AM) there has been 1,892 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.22 years!
Totals for North Durham in 2024
69 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
1,884 sewage dumps
10,827 h duration
That's 1.25 years! On average 5.2 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 North Durham, 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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Daily data is experimental and data is not guaranteed to be accurate. Please inform us of any issue, we will fix.

Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for North Durham 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 91 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

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.

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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