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Sunderland Central - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,170 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 390 hours , potential overflows 34 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Sunderland Central 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 - 181 hours
Feb - 471 hours
Mar - 136 hours , 34 potential
Apr - 12 hours , 284 offline
May - 368 hours , 105 offline
Jun - 0 hours
Jul - 0 hours
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Northumbrian Water PALLION PUMPING STATION River Wear 38 245h 38m -
Northumbrian Water HENDON PRELIMINARY TREATMENT WORKS North Sea 38 230h 10m -
Northumbrian Water DEPTFORD PUMPING STATION River Wear 28 170h 47m -
Northumbrian Water ST PETERS PUMPING STATION OUTFALL N Wear Estuary 8 94h 43m -
Northumbrian Water CASTLETOWN WAY SPS River Wear 20 85h 49m -
Northumbrian Water BODLEWELL LANE CSO Wear Estuary 18 77h 27m 284 h
Northumbrian Water GILL CEMETERY CSO (SU061) Wear 21 74h 22m 34 h
Northumbrian Water QUEEN ALEXANDRA BRIDGE PS River Wear 17 48h 41m -
Northumbrian Water LOW SOUTHWICK SPS River Wear 21 39h 34m -
Northumbrian Water RYHOPE CSO North Sea 13 28h 26m -
Northumbrian Water PALLION CSO 4 River Wear 18 23h 19m -
Northumbrian Water HAY STREET CSO SU056 Wear 11 19h 40m -
Northumbrian Water CSO SALTERFEN SU47 North Sea 15 13h 50m -
Northumbrian Water GRANGETOWN CSO North Sea 6 7h 10m -
Northumbrian Water WELLINGTON LANE PUMPING STATION River Wear 1 3h 48m -
Northumbrian Water PRIESTLEY CRESCENT CSO Wear Estuary 5 3h 30m -
Northumbrian Water GILL CEMETERY CSO (SU061) Wear 3 2h 46m 105 h
Northumbrian Water KIER HARDY WAY Wear 1 0h 12m -
Northumbrian Water CSO SUNDERLANS GAS WORKS North Sea 1 0h 2m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water SEABURN SOUTH CSO North Sea 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 SEABURN NORTH CSO North Sea 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 EAST HENDON ROAD CSO North Sea 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water BACK LODGE TERRACE CSO North Sea 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water BARLEY MOW PARK CSO Hendon Burn 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water MAINSFORTH TERRACE CSO SU63 North Sea 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 -

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.