Washington and Gateshead South was polluted by sewage 547 times in 2024
lasting 2,644 hours
- but monitoring was disabled in some locations, so could be more

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Live data for Washington and Gateshead South in 2025
So far this year (as of Apr 16, 2025, 1:15 PM) there has been 411 hours of sewage overflows
Totals for Washington and Gateshead South in 2024
19 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
547 sewage dumps
2,644 h duration
That's 3.67 months. On average 1.5 times a day
Change Over Time
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Waterways in Washington and Gateshead South
Daily Data
We get information about overflowing CSOs since January 2025. Here is a chart of the last three months of data for Washington and Gateshead South, 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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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Washington and Gateshead South 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 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 98 722 99.95
Northumbrian Water Wear WASHINGTON STW 54 405 99.95
Northumbrian Water River Wear FERRYBOAT LANE PUMPING STATION 27 299 85.6
Northumbrian Water River Wear CASTLETOWN WAY SPS 59 277 99.9
Northumbrian Water Team LAMESLEY SSO 30 190 100
Northumbrian Water River Wear STATION ROAD CSO 61 170 88.7
Northumbrian Water Team SEVENTH AVENUE CSO 51 159 99.9
Northumbrian Water Usworth Burn COACH ROAD EST CSO 45 155 98.4
Northumbrian Water Wear NORTH HYLTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 34 143 100
Northumbrian Water River Team LANSBURY DRIVE CSO 26 56 99.9
Northumbrian Water Don MANOR ROAD CSO 18 38 99.7
Northumbrian Water Longacre Burn BLACK LANE CSO 11 7 96.8
Northumbrian Water Team WOODFORD NO 22 STORM OVERFLOW 14 4 100
Northumbrian Water Don, USWORTH HALL CSO 4 3 92.6
Northumbrian Water Wear CSO 200M WEST OF WALTON ROAD 2 2 100
Northumbrian Water Don SHERATON CSO 1 2 99.7
Northumbrian Water Oxclose Burn STONEY LANE CSO 5 2 99.8
Northumbrian Water Willows Pond J F KENNEDY ESTATE CSO 5 1 96.3
Northumbrian Water River Team SMITHY LANE CSO 2 0 98.3
Northumbrian Water Willows Pond WASHINGTON VILLAGE CEMETRY CSO 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Oxclose Burn PRINCESS ANNE PARK CSO 0 0 85.3
Northumbrian Water Team LADY PARK PUMPING STATION 0 0 0
Northumbrian Water Rowletch Burn DURHAM ROAD CSO 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Biddick Burn WORMHILL TERRACE CSO 0 0 96.7
Northumbrian Water Rowletch Burn SWINBURN PLACE 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.

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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