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South Shields was polluted by sewage 610 times in 2023
lasting 2,393 hours

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Totals for South Shields in 2023

17 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

610 sewage dumps
2,393 h duration

That's 3.32 months. On average 1.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in South Shields

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 18 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	Don	BURDON ROAD CSO	37	153	99.8
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	Don	EAST BOLDON CSO NO 6	38	38	85.5
Northumbrian Water	River Don	HEATON GARDENS PUMPING STATION	5	21	96.7
Northumbrian Water	Don	JUNCTION LANGHOLME AVENUE &	11	8	99.7
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.

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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