South Shields was polluted by sewage 524 times in 2023
lasting 2,192 hours

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Totals for South Shields in 2023
14 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
524 sewage dumps
2,192 h duration
That's 3.04 months. On average 1.4 times a day
Change Over Time
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Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Shields 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 0 of the total 15 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuarine Waters ELDON STREET CSO 81 447 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuarine Waters TUDOR ROAD CSO 83 376 96.2
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuarine Waters TEMPLE STREET CSO 68 243 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Estuarine Waters WAPPING STREET CSO 54 202 88.3
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary HARTON LOW STAITHES CSO 48 188 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne CORONATION ST CSO 44 162 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne PILOT STREET PUMPING STATION 31 131 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea WHITBURN STEEL PS 32 126 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea REDWELL SEAGE PUMPING STATION 27 123 95.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SMITH STREET PUMPING STATION 18 120 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary WEST HOLBORN SOUTH CSO 24 42 98.4
Northumbrian Water River Don HEATON GARDENS PUMPING STATION 5 21 96.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea WHITBURN STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 7 3 89.8
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary HARTON LOW STAITHES (MILL DAM) CSO 2 3 99.2
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary MITRE PLACE CSO 0 0 99.9

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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