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Berwick-upon-Tweed

Polluted by sewage 796 times in 2025 lasting 1,424 hours

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Totals for Berwick-upon-Tweed in 2025

30 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

796 sewage dumps

1,424 hours duration

That's 1.98 months. On average 2.2 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Berwick-upon-Tweed in 2025. 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 Tweed	BERWICK STW	39	228	99.1
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	MAGDALENE FIELDS NORTH CSO	112	142	93.2
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	BERWICK P S NO 7 (MAGDALENE FIELDSN	73	134	99.8
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	MAGDALEN FIELDS SOUTH COMBINED SEWW	67	118	73.5
Northumbrian Water	Watercourse To River Tweed	MILLFIELD SPS	36	103	76.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	CASTLE TERRACE 1 CSO	51	99	96.2
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	SPITTAL QUAY CSO (BT7)	46	97	97
Northumbrian Water	Tweed Estuary	QUEENS GARDENS CSO	39	97	91
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed Estuary	QUAY WALL SPS	42	77	96.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed Estuary	BT41 MAIN STREET NO 4 CSO	32	75	99.2
Northumbrian Water	Tweed Estuary	CSO AT BLAKEWELL ROAD	30	49	84.3
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	CAR PARK CSO	25	30	97.3
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	33 DOCK ROAD CSO	28	29	96.3
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	MOUNT ROAD CSO BT003	32	23	96.1
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	JNC CHURCH ROAD/DOCK ROAD COMBINEEW	25	23	87.8
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	BRANDYWELL CSO	40	21	97.3
Northumbrian Water	Tweed Estuary	SSO AT WEST END	19	20	82.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	MILL STRAND COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	8	16	80
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	DOCK ROAD CSO (BT44)	19	16	94.7
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	BERWICK NO 4 SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	9	7	98.5
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	RAILWAY STREET	6	4	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Unnamed Coastal Stream	WESTFIELD NO 9 PS	3	1	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	SHOREGATE CSO	2	1	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	PALACE STREET NORTH CSO 1	3	0	96
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	CASTLE VALE SPS	2	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	MAIN STREET SPITTAL CSO	2	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Tweed Estuary	SEA ROAD CSO	2	0	99.5
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	CASTLE TERRACE NO2 (BT341) CSO	2	0	77.2
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	PALACE STREET NORTH CSO 1	1	0	95.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	RAVENSDOWNE BARRACKS SPS	1	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tweed	TWEEDSIDE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE CSO	0	0	93.5

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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