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Washington and Gateshead South was polluted by sewage 674 times in 2023
lasting 3,750 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Totals for Washington and Gateshead South in 2023

23 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

674 sewage dumps
3,750 h duration

That's 5.21 months. On average 1.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Waterways in Washington and Gateshead South

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Washington and Gateshead South 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 25 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	Team	BIRTLEY STW	111	1,037	99.95
Northumbrian Water	Wear	WASHINGTON STW	65	630	66.95
Northumbrian Water	Team	LAMESLEY SSO	53	556	99.5
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	FERRYBOAT LANE PUMPING STATION	40	491	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	CASTLETOWN WAY SPS	59	258	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	STATION ROAD CSO	70	176	89
Northumbrian Water	Usworth Burn	COACH ROAD EST CSO	38	145	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Wear	NORTH HYLTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	33	140	100
Northumbrian Water	River Team	LANSBURY DRIVE CSO	37	108	99.3
Northumbrian Water	Don	MANOR ROAD CSO	30	86	88.8
Northumbrian Water	Team	SEVENTH AVENUE CSO	10	44	10.8
Northumbrian Water	Longacre Burn	BLACK LANE CSO	27	24	95
Northumbrian Water	Team	WOODFORD NO 22 STORM OVERFLOW	38	14	97.5
Northumbrian Water	Oxclose Burn	PRINCESS ANNE PARK CSO	10	10	95.8
Northumbrian Water	Willows Pond	J F KENNEDY ESTATE CSO	18	6	91.6
Northumbrian Water	Oxclose Burn	STONEY LANE CSO	10	4	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	CSO 200M WEST OF WALTON ROAD	6	3	100
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	DURHAM ROAD CSO	5	3	92.4
Northumbrian Water	Don	SHERATON CSO	4	3	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Don,	USWORTH HALL CSO	3	2	99.2
Northumbrian Water	River Team	SMITHY LANE CSO	2	2	97.5
Northumbrian Water	Biddick Burn	WORMHILL TERRACE CSO	3	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	SWINBURN PLACE CSO	2	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Team	LADY PARK PUMPING STATION	0	0	0
Northumbrian Water	Willows Pond	WASHINGTON VILLAGE CEMETRY CSO	0	0	100

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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