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Washington and Gateshead South - 2025 Sewage

Polluted by sewage 1,045 hours in 2025 , monitoring offline 12,077 hours , potential overflows 776 hours

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You're looking at the totals that we have calculated for sewage in Washington and Gateshead South for 2025. It is an estimate, based on very poor quality live data from the Water Companies. This may not align with the 'official' reported sewage values from the water companies, which is reported in April following then end of the year - so 2025 numbers are reported in April 2026.

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 - 285 hours , 102 potential
Feb - 8 hours , 806 offline
Mar - 14 hours , 921 offline
Apr - 0 hours , 811 offline
May - 4 hours , 1,493 offline
Jun - 14 hours , 216 potential
Jul - 28 hours , 918 offline
Aug - 3 hours , 795 offline
Sept - 97 hours , 870 offline
Oct - 20 hours , 457 potential
Nov - 381 hours , 850 offline
Dec - 186 hours , 15 offline
Daily data is experimental and data is not guaranteed to be accurate. Please inform us of any issue, we will fix.
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Totals so far

Company Site Name Receiving Waterway Overflow Days Total Duration (hours) Offline/Potential Pollution
Northumbrian Water FERRYBOAT LANE PUMPING STATION River Wear 16 226h 54m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 12 100h 58m -
Northumbrian Water BIRTLEY STW Team 10 72h 24m -
Northumbrian Water NORTH HYLTON SPS River Wear 9 62h 43m -
Northumbrian Water WASHINGTON STW Wear 7 61h 25m -
Northumbrian Water STATION ROAD CSO River Wear 20 60h 32m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 4 55h 54m 160 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 6 55h 23m 22 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 10 48h 20m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 9 45h 54m 55 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 35 44h 18m 919 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 15 39h 22m 251 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 6 35h 53m 127 h
Northumbrian Water BIRTLEY STW Team 7 25h 12m -
Northumbrian Water LAMESLEY SSO Team 6 23h 54m -
Northumbrian Water COACH ROAD EST CSO Usworth Burn 9 19h 22m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 4 15h 42m 138 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 3 11h 36m 224 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 2 7h 19m 206 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 5 6h 32m -
Northumbrian Water MANOR ROAD CSO Don 5 4h 28m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 2 2h 49m 7 h
Northumbrian Water CSO REAR 11 ST AUSTELL GARDENS River Team 1 2h 32m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 8 2h 22m 469 h
Northumbrian Water BLACK LANE CSO Longacre Burn 4 2h 14m -
Northumbrian Water WASHINGTON CSO DON GARDENS - NWL name Culverted River Don 2 1h 46m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 3 1h 32m 179 h
Northumbrian Water WASHINGTON STW Wear 1 1h 13m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 5 1h 11m 7 h
Northumbrian Water LANSBURY DRIVE CSO River Team 1 0h 52m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 10 0h 47m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0h 44m -
Northumbrian Water KINGSMERE SPS Rowletch Burn 1 0h 35m 0 h
Northumbrian Water WOODFORD NO 22 STORM OVERFLOW Team 4 0h 30m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 2 0h 27m 15 h
Northumbrian Water SMITHY LANE CSO River Team 2 0h 24m -
Northumbrian Water STONY ROW CSO Urpeth Burn 1 0h 24m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 2 0h 13m 600 h
Northumbrian Water STONEY LANE CSO Oxclose Burn 1 0h 12m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0h 8m -
Northumbrian Water GRASSBANKS CSO Don 1 0h 2m -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0h 556 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 1 0h 7 h
Northumbrian Water J F KENNEDY ESTATE CSO Willows Pond 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 273 h
Northumbrian Water WASHINGTON VILLAGE CEMETRY CSO Willows Pond 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water SHERATON CSO Don 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water LADY PARK PUMPING STATION Team 0 0h 8,031 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 7 h
Northumbrian Water CSO 200M WEST OF WALTON ROAD Wear 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water FATFIELD CSO 3 River Wear 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 324 h
Northumbrian Water USWORTH HALL CSO Don, 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 32 h
Northumbrian Water WORMHILL TERRACE CSO Biddick Burn 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water PRINCESS ANNE PARK CSO Oxclose Burn 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water COX GREEN SPS River Wear 0 0h -
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 83 h
Northumbrian Water Unknown Unknown 0 0h 150 h
Northumbrian Water DURHAM ROAD CSO Rowletch Burn 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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.

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