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Live data for North Durham in 2025

So far this year (as of May 12, 2025, 12:30 PM) there has been 2,634 hours of sewage overflows - that's 0.3 years!

Totals for North Durham in 2024

69 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

1,884 sewage dumps

10,827 hours duration

That's 1.25 years! On average 5.2 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in North Durham

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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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 3 of the total 91 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year. Of these 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Northumbrian Water	Causey Burn	EAST TANFIELD STW	174	1,438	100
Northumbrian Water	Smallhope Burn	LANCHESTER STW	77	961	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Black Dene Burn	PLAWSWORTH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	76	800	99
Northumbrian Water	Humble Burn	EDMONDSLEY STW	61	699	99.1
Northumbrian Water	Twizell Burn	HUSTLEDOWN STW	50	629	97.1
Northumbrian Water	Wear	CHESTER LE STREET STW	49	525	51.6
Northumbrian Water	Smallhope Burn	KNITSLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	54	484	99.3
Northumbrian Water	South Burn	SACRISTON SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	49	464	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Farlieth Burn	PALM TERRACE CSO	43	418	100
Northumbrian Water	Smallhope Burn	LYNWOOD HOUSE CSO DER44	67	355	99
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	BEECHVILLE CSO	42	343	96
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	HOLYHILL GARDENS EAST CSO	61	309	100
Northumbrian Water	Unnamed Houghwell Burn	ST ANDREWS ROAD CSO	41	304	94.9
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	THE MIDDLES CSO	66	286	97.3
Northumbrian Water	Smallhope Burn	CSO MANOR COURT	46	231	97.3
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	PELTON FELL ROAD CSO	45	204	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn,	NIGHTINGALE PLACE CSO	43	204	96.8
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	SHIELDS ROAD CSO	48	203	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	LINDOM AVENUE CSO	31	197	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	PARK ROAD CSO	31	162	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	MITCHEL TERRACE CSO	45	140	89.8
Northumbrian Water	Lumley Park Burn	FLOATERS MILL PS CSO	32	139	100
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	PELTON FELL ROAD 3 CSO CH14	40	129	100
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn 9River Team	OUSTON VILLA FARM CSO	25	107	100
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	PELAW BANK CSO CH57	40	107	95.8
Northumbrian Water	Twizell Burn	KIMBERLEY GARDENS CSO (DER 82)	25	100	99.4
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	CSO ADJACENT 40 HOLLYHILL GARDENS	40	74	100
Northumbrian Water	Smallhope Burn	RAILWAY SREET CSO	32	72	95.3
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	50 WOODSIDE GARDENS CSO	20	70	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	TANFIELD TRUNK SEWER CSO	20	65	95.6
Northumbrian Water	Houghwell Burn	OAKS FIELD CSO	19	65	100
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	SOUTH MOOR MEMORIAL PARK SSO	24	51	98.5
Northumbrian Water	Smallhope Burn	MOUNT PLEASANT CSO DER41	27	48	100
Northumbrian Water	Of Wear Estuary	ASH MEADOWS CSO CHESTER LE STREET	28	45	98.4
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	DUNN STREET	13	44	97.7
Northumbrian Water	South Burn River Wear	HOLMHILL FIELD CSO CH043	17	27	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Ibbetsons' Sike	BURNHOPE P.S. CSO & CER	17	27	96.6
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	HUSTLEDOWN ROAD CSO	20	26	98.2
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	ELWIN PLACE CSO	19	24	99.3
Northumbrian Water	Black Dene Burn	PLAWSWORTH CSO MH1	19	23	96.6
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	DUKE STREET CSO	15	20	100
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn,	SOUTHFIELDS CSO	13	20	98.9
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	HOPGARTH GARDENS CSO	10	19	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	BEVERLEY GARDENS CSO	13	17	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	RAILWAY GARDENS CSO DER047	14	15	94.3
Northumbrian Water	Dene Burn	A692 CSO	18	13	95.9
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	PARK ROAD NORTH CSO	12	13	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Broughs Gill	SCORERS LANE CSO	6	9	100
Northumbrian Water	Blindy Burn	GRANGE VILLA CSO	3	9	100
Northumbrian Water	Urpeth Burn	STONY ROW CSO	11	9	97.7
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	WESLEY TERRACE CSO	8	8	100
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	LINTZ TERRACE CSO	10	7	93
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	THE OVAL CSO	6	5	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Carrmyers Burn	ANNFIELD PLAIN & STANLEY CSO 8	5	5	96.3
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	DURHAM ROAD CSO	7	5	98.7
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	FRONT STREET CSO	7	5	73.8
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	TANFIELD COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL CSO	7	4	100
Northumbrian Water	Trip Of Stanley Burn	OLIVER STREET CSO	7	2	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Houghwell Burn	SOUTH LEIGH CSO	4	2	100
Northumbrian Water	Wharnley Burn	OPP OLD CASTLESIDE STW CSO	4	2	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	CONGBURN BANK CSO	4	1	100
Northumbrian Water	Kyo Burn	WHITE-LE-HEAD ALLOTMENTS SSO	5	1	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	CONE LANE (CHESTER NO 4) CSO	4	1	97
Northumbrian Water	Iddeston'S Sike	CRICKET GROUND HOLMSIDE LANE CSO	3	1	100
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	WALDRIDGE ROAD CSO CH 13	4	0	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn,	STATION LANE CSO	4	0	94.1
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	THE BROOMS NORTH CSO	2	0	95.9
Northumbrian Water	Houghwell Burn	ARGYLE COURT CSO	1	0	83.8
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	WESTLINE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE CSO	1	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Houghwell Burn	STATION VILLAS CSO	0	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	KINGSMERE PS	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Stella Gill	PELTON CSO	0	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	EAST VIEW CSO	0	0	98
Northumbrian Water	Wear	LUMLEY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	SOUTH MOOR ROAD FOOTBALL CLUB CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Black Burn River Wear	CROSS LANE CSO CH8	0	0	97.7
Northumbrian Water	Lumley Park Burn	FORMER CASTLE DENE SDW SSO	0	0	98.2
Northumbrian Water	Urpeth Burn	BEAMISH CSO	0	0	93.5
Northumbrian Water	Stanley Burn	WILLIAM STREET CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Browney,	HOLLINSIDE STW	0	0	99.4
Northumbrian Water	Blackdene Burn	KIMBLESWORTH CSO	0	0	0
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	WHELDON TERRACE CSO	0	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Wear	CHERRY BANKS CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	FRONT STREET CSO CH68	0	0	95.3
Northumbrian Water	Lumley Park Burn	ROSE CRESCENT CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Culverted Waterc' To Black Bur	CHARLAW TERRACE CSO	0	0	47
Northumbrian Water	Lumley Park Burn	BOURNMOOR SPS	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	South Burn	WARKWORTH DRIVE CSO	0	0	99.2
Northumbrian Water	Wear	ROPERY LANE/EARDULPH AVE CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Brough'S Gill	BACK LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Causey Burn	CAUSEY STW	0	0	14.7

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

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