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Washington and Gateshead South - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 627 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 1,721 hours so far..

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Washington and Gateshead South 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 - 94 hours , 744 offline
Feb - 520 hours , 672 offline
Mar - 12 hours , 305 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Northumbrian Water BIRTLEY STW Team 9 95 h 57m -
Northumbrian Water WASHINGTON STW Wear 9 93 h 34m -
Northumbrian Water LAMESLEY SSO Team 9 93 h 18m -
Northumbrian Water STATION ROAD CSO River Wear 24 91 h 58m -
Northumbrian Water COX GREEN SPS River Wear 5 81 h 35m -
Northumbrian Water COACH ROAD EST CSO Usworth Burn 6 53 h 42m -
Northumbrian Water NORTH HYLTON SPS River Wear 7 52 h 31m -
Northumbrian Water BIRTLEY STW Team 4 52 h 8m -
Northumbrian Water DURHAM ROAD CSO Rowletch Burn 1 11 h 28m -
Northumbrian Water USWORTH HALL CSO Don, 1 0 h 51m -
Northumbrian Water WASHINGTON CSO DON GARDENS - NWL name Culverted River Don 1 0 h 20m -
Northumbrian Water BLACK LANE CSO Longacre Burn 1 0 h 16m -
Northumbrian Water STONEY LANE CSO Oxclose Burn 1 0 h 10m -
Northumbrian Water GRASSBANKS CSO Don 2 0 h 6m -
Northumbrian Water SMITHY LANE CSO River Team 1 0 h 2m -
Northumbrian Water WASHINGTON VILLAGE CEMETRY CSO Willows Pond 1 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water J F KENNEDY ESTATE CSO Willows Pond 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water SHERATON CSO Don 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water CSO REAR 11 ST AUSTELL GARDENS River Team 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water FERRYBOAT LANE PUMPING STATION River Wear 0 0 h 1,721 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water FATFIELD CSO 3 River Wear 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water PRINCESS ANNE PARK CSO Oxclose Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water KINGSMERE SPS Rowletch Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water WOODFORD NO 22 STORM OVERFLOW Team 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water LADY PARK PUMPING STATION Team 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water CSO 200M WEST OF WALTON ROAD Wear 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water STONY ROW CSO Urpeth Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water WORMHILL TERRACE CSO Biddick Burn 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water WASHINGTON STW Wear 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water MANOR ROAD CSO Don 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water LANSBURY DRIVE CSO River Team 0 0 h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0 h -

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.

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