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Alnwick

Polluted by sewage 306 times in 2024 lasting 1,170 hours

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Totals for Alnwick in 2024

6 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
306 sewage dumps
1,170 hours duration
That's 1.62 months. 5.9 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Alnwick 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 place all the declared CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway s appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water River Aln ALNWICK SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 149 870 96.25
Northumbrian Water Wash Burn HOWLING LANE CSO A046 49 114 98.7
Northumbrian Water Aln ALNMOUTH ROAD SSO 32 89 99.7
Northumbrian Water Bow Burn ALNWICK CASTLE CSO A011 40 59 100
Northumbrian Water River Aln NARROWGATE CSO 22 25 65.6
Northumbrian Water River Aln ALNWICK CASTLE CSO NO 2 A035 14 10 52.9
Northumbrian Water R Aln STAIGS GARTH SPS 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. 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.

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