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Billingham

Polluted by sewage 1,402 times in 2025 lasting 1,901 hours

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Totals for Billingham in 2025

16 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
1,402 sewage dumps
1,901 hours duration
That's 2.64 months. On average 3.8 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Billingham 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 Tees PORTRACK SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 110 651 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Tees-Saline Estuary FURNESS PS OUTFALL 22 219 100
Northumbrian Water River Tees PORT CLARENCE EAST PUMPING STATION 30 216 94.2
Northumbrian Water Billinghan Beck STATION ROAD STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 50 179 98
Northumbrian Water Cowbridge Beck COWPEN BEWLEY SPS 16 119 97.1
Northumbrian Water Billingham Beck NEWPORT SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 47 89 99.9
Northumbrian Water Billingham Beck NORTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 11 72 100
Northumbrian Water Lustrum Beck QUEENSPORT CLOSE CSO 13 67 99.3
Northumbrian Water River Tees ACKLAM STREET OUTFALL 44 60 100
Northumbrian Water Lustrum Beck NORTH TEES SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 12 59 95.7
Northumbrian Water River Tees PORT CLARENCE WEST PS OUTFALL 7 38 100
Northumbrian Water Billingham Beck TEESDALE AVENUE CSO 15 35 95.6
Northumbrian Water Thorpe Beck, Bill.Beck WHITE HOUSE ROAD 1+2 CSO 34 31 99.6
Northumbrian Water River Tees VULCAN STREET OUTFALL 8 23 90.4
Northumbrian Water River Tees Estuary NEWPORT ROAD CSO 960 21 97.7
Northumbrian Water River Tees SNOWDON ROAD PS 23 15 99.9
Northumbrian Water Mill Race NEW ROAD CSO 0 0 86.5

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.

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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