Sunderland Central was polluted by sewage 847 times in 2023
lasting 2,264 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Sunderland Central in 2023

19 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

847 sewage dumps
2,264 h duration

That's 3.14 months. On average 2.3 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Sunderland Central

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sunderland Central 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 1 of the total 23 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 1 had zero reporting.

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	HENDON PRELIMINARY TREATMENT WORKS	119	633	100
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	BACK LODGE TERRACE CSO	63	236	75.7
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	DEPTFORD PUMPING STATION	59	217	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	LOW SOUTHWICK PUMPING STATION	74	200	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Wear Estuary	BODLEWELL LANE CSO	53	157	90.6
Northumbrian Water	Wear	GILL CEMETERY CSO (SU061)	91	142	99.9
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	RYHOPE SSO	52	131	95.7
Northumbrian Water	Wear	QUEEN ALEXANDRA PS	54	128	100
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	MAINSFORTH TERRACE CSO SU63	50	98	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	PALLION PUMPING STATION	58	79	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear Estuary	ST PETERS PUMPING STATION OUTFALL N	14	78	98.5
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	GRANGETOWN CSO	42	44	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear Estuary	PRIESTLEY CRESCENT CSO	40	30	99.8
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	WELLINGTON LANE PUMPING STATION	24	28	98.3
Northumbrian Water	Wear	HAY STREET CSO SU056	27	24	100
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	CSO SUNDERLANS GAS WORKS	7	18	41.2
Northumbrian Water	Wear	KIER HARDY WAY	16	9	99.7
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	SEABURN SOUTH CSO	2	4	99.9
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	SEABURN NORTH CSO	2	2	99.6
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	EAST HENDON ROAD CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	ROKER STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW	0	0	37.4
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	CSO SALTERFEN SU47	0	0	0
Northumbrian Water	Hendon Burn	BARLEY MOW PARK CSO	0	0	87.3

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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