Washington and Sunderland West polluted by sewage 430 times in 2023 - lasting 2,178 hours

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Totals for Washington and Sunderland West in 2023
16 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
430 sewage dumps
2,178 h duration
That's 3.02 months. On average 1.2 times a day
Change Over Time

Pollution Summary 2023

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Washington and Sunderland West 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 0 of the total 18 CSO locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year, of which 0 had zero reporting.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water Wear WASHINGTON STW 65 630 66.95
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 GOLDEN LION SPS 37 216 100
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 Don MANOR ROAD CSO 30 86 88.8
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 ST LUKES ROAD 4 3 100
Northumbrian Water Wear CSO 200M WEST OF WALTON ROAD 6 3 100
Northumbrian Water Don SHERATON CSO 4 3 99.8
Northumbrian Water Don, USWORTH HALL CSO 3 2 99.2
Northumbrian Water Biddick Burn WORMHILL TERRACE CSO 3 0 100
Northumbrian Water Willows Pond WASHINGTON VILLAGE CEMETRY CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Wear Estuary POTTERY LANE PS 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

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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