Washington and Gateshead South - Live Sewage

Polluted by sewage 763 hours in 2026 , monitoring offline 557 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.

Totals for Washington and Gateshead South in 2026

Sewage763 hours
Monitoring offline557 hours
Potential pollution0 hours
Storm overflows62

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Daily Data

Jan - 94 hours
Feb - 520 hours
Mar - 13 hours , 129 offline
Apr - 1 hours , 210 offline
May - 80 hours
Jun - 3 hours
Jul - 0 hours
Aug - 20 hours , 75 offline
Sept - 0 hours
Oct - 28 hours , 142 offline
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Northumbrian Water STATION ROAD CSO River Wear 57 131h 12m -
Northumbrian Water BIRTLEY STW Team 12 113h 58m -
Northumbrian Water WASHINGTON STW Wear 13 108h 26m -
Northumbrian Water LAMESLEY SSO Team 13 95h 30m 142 h
Northumbrian Water COX GREEN SPS River Wear 6 85h 31m -
Northumbrian Water BIRTLEY STW Team 12 66h 7m -
Northumbrian Water NORTH HYLTON SPS River Wear 16 63h 16m -
Northumbrian Water COACH ROAD EST CSO Usworth Burn 16 63h 12m -
Northumbrian Water DURHAM ROAD CSO Rowletch Burn 2 11h 30m -
Northumbrian Water SHERATON CSO Don 3 11h 8m -
Northumbrian Water MANOR ROAD CSO Don 4 1h 58m -
Northumbrian Water BLACK LANE CSO Longacre Burn 6 1h 58m -
Northumbrian Water USWORTH HALL CSO Don, 3 1h 57m -
Northumbrian Water WASHINGTON CSO DON GARDENS - NWL name Culverted River Don 3 1h 54m -
Northumbrian Water STONY ROW CSO Urpeth Burn 3 1h 39m -
Northumbrian Water WOODFORD NO 22 STORM OVERFLOW Team 8 1h 16m -
Northumbrian Water GRASSBANKS CSO Don 4 1h 14m -
Northumbrian Water PRINCESS ANNE PARK CSO Oxclose Burn 1 0h 44m -
Northumbrian Water J F KENNEDY ESTATE CSO Willows Pond 2 0h 40m -
Northumbrian Water FERRYBOAT LANE PUMPING STATION River Wear 1 0h 18m 75 h
Northumbrian Water STONEY LANE CSO Oxclose Burn 1 0h 10m 210 h
Northumbrian Water WASHINGTON STW Wear 1 0h 7m -
Northumbrian Water SMITHY LANE CSO River Team 4 0h 6m 129 h
Northumbrian Water LANSBURY DRIVE CSO River Team 1 0h 2m -
Northumbrian Water WASHINGTON VILLAGE CEMETRY CSO Willows Pond 1 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 LADY PARK PUMPING STATION Team 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 CSO 200M WEST OF WALTON ROAD Wear 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water KINGSMERE SPS Rowletch Burn 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water CSO REAR 11 ST AUSTELL GARDENS River Team 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 FATFIELD CSO 3 River Wear 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 WORMHILL TERRACE CSO Biddick Burn 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 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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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