Polluted by sewage 683 times in 2024 lasting 2,062 hours
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
So far this year (as of May 7, 2025, 8:45 PM) there has been 323 hours of sewage overflows
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We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Sunderland Central, here you can see overflows in red, the darker the red, the more the CSO overflowed that day.
Each CSO has a row, the most recent data is on the right hand side.
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Sunderland Central in 2024. 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 2 of the total 23 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.
Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
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Northumbrian Water | North Sea | HENDON PRELIMINARY TREATMENT WORKS | 103 | 553 | 100 |
Northumbrian Water | River Wear | DEPTFORD PUMPING STATION | 46 | 211 | 100 |
Northumbrian Water | North Sea | BACK LODGE TERRACE CSO | 49 | 189 | 100 |
Northumbrian Water | Wear Estuary | BODLEWELL LANE CSO | 33 | 149 | 66.5 |
Northumbrian Water | River Wear | LOW SOUTHWICK PUMPING STATION | 58 | 140 | 99.5 |
Northumbrian Water | Wear | QUEEN ALEXANDRA PS | 45 | 133 | 100 |
Northumbrian Water | Wear | GILL CEMETERY CSO (SU061) | 68 | 131 | 99.9 |
Northumbrian Water | North Sea | RYHOPE SSO | 42 | 114 | 100 |
Northumbrian Water | Wear Estuary | ST PETERS PUMPING STATION OUTFALL N | 16 | 96 | 100 |
Northumbrian Water | North Sea | MAINSFORTH TERRACE CSO SU63 | 31 | 85 | 99.9 |
Northumbrian Water | River Wear | PALLION PUMPING STATION | 50 | 76 | 100 |
Northumbrian Water | North Sea | CSO SALTERFEN SU47 | 20 | 46 | 31.3 |
Northumbrian Water | North Sea | GRANGETOWN CSO | 34 | 44 | 99.9 |
Northumbrian Water | Wear Estuary | PRIESTLEY CRESCENT CSO | 28 | 27 | 93.5 |
Northumbrian Water | Wear | HAY STREET CSO SU056 | 20 | 20 | 99.8 |
Northumbrian Water | River Wear | WELLINGTON LANE PUMPING STATION | 14 | 17 | 86.7 |
Northumbrian Water | North Sea | CSO SUNDERLANS GAS WORKS | 13 | 13 | 94.6 |
Northumbrian Water | Wear | KIER HARDY WAY | 10 | 5 | 100 |
Northumbrian Water | North Sea | ROKER STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW | 1 | 1 | 21.2 |
Northumbrian Water | North Sea | SEABURN SOUTH CSO | 1 | 1 | 94.1 |
Northumbrian Water | North Sea | SEABURN NORTH CSO | 1 | 0 | 96.3 |
Northumbrian Water | North Sea | EAST HENDON ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
Northumbrian Water | Hendon Burn | BARLEY MOW PARK CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
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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