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South Shields - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 963 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 650 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in South Shields for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 255 hours , 23 offline
Feb - 2 hours , 15 offline
Mar - 5 hours , 134 offline
Apr - 0 hours , 422 offline
May - 23 hours , 7 offline
Jun - 51 hours , 7 offline
Jul - 55 hours
Aug - 13 hours , 7 offline
Sept - 148 hours , 31 offline
Oct - 45 hours
Nov - 282 hours
Dec - 77 hours
Daily data is experimental and data is not guaranteed to be accurate. Please inform us of any issue, we will fix.
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 41 110 h 499 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 35 92 h 49m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 12 87 h 38m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 23 83 h 4m 22 h
Northumbrian Water ELDON STREET CSO River Tyne Estuarine Waters 18 72 h 30m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 21 69 h 10m 22 h
Northumbrian Water TUDOR ROAD CSO River Tyne Estuarine Waters 14 58 h 36m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 13 39 h 41m 22 h
Northumbrian Water TEMPLE STREET CSO River Tyne Estuarine Waters 14 39 h 37m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 9 38 h 4m -
Northumbrian Water CORONATION ST CSO River Tyne 11 35 h 15m -
Northumbrian Water HARTON LOW STAITHES CSO Tyne Saline Estuary 10 31 h 3m -
Northumbrian Water WAPPING STREET CSO River Tyne Estuarine Waters 11 30 h 40m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 6 24 h 14m -
Northumbrian Water BURDON ROAD CSO Don 7 22 h 32m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 8 22 h 13m 21 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 4 20 h 6m -
Northumbrian Water WHITBURN STEEL PS North Sea 5 18 h 30m -
Northumbrian Water SOUTH SHIELDS PILOT SPS River Tyne 6 18 h 1m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 15 13 h 56m -
Northumbrian Water EAST BOLDON CSO NO 6 Don 11 13 h 54m -
Northumbrian Water SMITH STREET PUMPING STATION Tyne Saline Estuary 3 12 h 20m -
Northumbrian Water WEST HOLBORN SOUTH CSO River Tyne Saline Estuary 5 4 h 56m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 5 2 h 32m -
Northumbrian Water HARTON LOW STAITHES (MILL DAM) CSO Tyne Saline Estuary 1 1 h 34m -
Northumbrian Water REDWELL SPS North Sea 1 0 h 20m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0 h 4m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0 h 1m 7 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h 54 h
Northumbrian Water WHITBURN STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW North Sea 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water MITRE PLACE CSO Tyne Saline Estuary 0 0 h -

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.

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