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Live data for Washington and Gateshead South in 2026

So far this year (as of 18 May 2026, 12:00) there has been 707 hours of sewage overflows, from 62 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s

Totals for Washington and Gateshead South in 2025

17 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

329 sewage dumps

1,046 hours duration

That's 1.45 months. 6.3 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Washington and Gateshead South in 2025. 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 all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company	Waterway	Site	Sewage Dumps	Duration (Hours)	Reporting %
Northumbrian Water	Team	BIRTLEY STW	44	247	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	FERRYBOAT LANE PUMPING STATION	12	142	95.9
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	CASTLETOWN WAY SPS	40	126	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	WASHINGTON STW	16	117	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	STATION ROAD CSO	69	114	88.3
Northumbrian Water	Wear	NORTH HYLTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	16	108	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Team	LAMESLEY SSO	15	60	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Usworth Burn	COACH ROAD EST CSO	20	58	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Team	SEVENTH AVENUE CSO	36	49	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Don	MANOR ROAD CSO	10	11	98.8
Northumbrian Water	Longacre Burn	BLACK LANE CSO	12	4	95.7
Northumbrian Water	Team	WOODFORD NO 22 STORM OVERFLOW	26	3	91.2
Northumbrian Water	River Team	LANSBURY DRIVE CSO	2	1	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Oxclose Burn	STONEY LANE CSO	5	0	92.9
Northumbrian Water	Willows Pond	J F KENNEDY ESTATE CSO	3	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Team	SMITHY LANE CSO	2	0	94.4
Northumbrian Water	Don,	USWORTH HALL CSO	1	0	93.8
Northumbrian Water	Wear	CSO 200M WEST OF WALTON ROAD	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	DURHAM ROAD CSO	0	0	96.2
Northumbrian Water	Oxclose Burn	PRINCESS ANNE PARK CSO	0	0	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Don	SHERATON CSO	0	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	SWINBURN PLACE CSO	0	0	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Willows Pond	WASHINGTON VILLAGE CEMETRY CSO	0	0	96.2
Northumbrian Water	Biddick Burn	WORMHILL TERRACE CSO	0	0	93.1

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.

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