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South Shields - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 694 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 208 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in South Shields so far for 2026. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. The water companies report their sewage to the Environment Agency every year in April. You can see the last reported year in the other page

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 - 236 hours
Feb - 287 hours , 208 offline
Mar - 41 hours
Apr - 0 hours
May - 129 hours
Jun - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Northumbrian Water CORONATION ST CSO River Tyne 23 203h 9m -
Northumbrian Water ELDON STREET CSO River Tyne Estuarine Waters 27 113h 46m -
Northumbrian Water TUDOR ROAD CSO River Tyne Estuarine Waters 23 95h 25m -
Northumbrian Water TEMPLE STREET CSO River Tyne Estuarine Waters 18 66h 30m -
Northumbrian Water BURDON ROAD CSO Don 9 49h 32m -
Northumbrian Water HARTON LOW STAITHES CSO Tyne Saline Estuary 10 45h 37m -
Northumbrian Water WHITBURN STEEL PS North Sea 10 31h 27m -
Northumbrian Water SOUTH SHIELDS PILOT SPS River Tyne 6 27h 52m -
Northumbrian Water SMITH STREET PUMPING STATION Tyne Saline Estuary 5 23h 28m -
Northumbrian Water WAPPING STREET CSO River Tyne Estuarine Waters 7 16h 36m 208 h
Northumbrian Water WEST HOLBORN SOUTH CSO River Tyne Saline Estuary 5 10h 46m -
Northumbrian Water EAST BOLDON CSO NO 6 Don 7 10h 16m -
Northumbrian Water REDWELL SPS North Sea 2 0h 3m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water MITRE PLACE CSO Tyne Saline Estuary 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water HARTON LOW STAITHES (MILL DAM) CSO Tyne Saline Estuary 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water WHITBURN STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW North Sea 0 0h -

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.