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Polluted by sewage 216 times in 2024 lasting 1,128 hours
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Birtley 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 locality all the declared CSOs appeared to have monitoring enabled for more than 50% of the year
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northumbrian Water | Team | BIRTLEY STW | 98 | 722 | 99.95 |
| Northumbrian Water | Team | LAMESLEY SSO | 30 | 190 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Rowletch Burn 9River Team | OUSTON VILLA FARM CSO | 25 | 107 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Team | LANSBURY DRIVE CSO | 26 | 56 | 99.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Of Wear Estuary | ASH MEADOWS CSO CHESTER LE STREET | 28 | 45 | 98.4 |
| Northumbrian Water | Rowletch Burn | THE OVAL CSO | 6 | 5 | 99.8 |
| Northumbrian Water | Rowletch Burn | THE BROOMS NORTH CSO | 2 | 0 | 95.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Rowletch Burn | WESTLINE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE CSO | 1 | 0 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Rowletch Burn | KINGSMERE PS | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Rowletch Burn | DURHAM ROAD CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | Rowletch Burn | SWINBURN PLACE CSO | 0 | 0 | 100 |
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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