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Polluted by sewage 359 times in 2025 lasting 1,683 hours
Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more
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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Bishop Auckland 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 1 of the total 28 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.
| Company | Waterway | Site | Sewage Dumps | Duration (Hours) | Reporting % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northumbrian Water | River Gaunless | CATTLE MARKET B SSO | 78 | 582 | 97.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Coundon Burn | PARK HEAD STORAGE TANK CSO | 35 | 324 | 79.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Gaunless | FIELDON BRIDGE CSO | 28 | 300 | 87.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Coal Burn | ETHERLEY LANE CSO | 40 | 205 | 98.5 |
| Northumbrian Water | Dene Beck | VINOVIUM SSO NO A23 | 32 | 91 | 99.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Dene Beck | CUMBERLAND STREET SSO | 24 | 65 | 95.2 |
| Northumbrian Water | Coundon Burn | RIVERSIDE CSO | 6 | 32 | 99.8 |
| Northumbrian Water | Wear | CHAPEL STREET CSO | 22 | 20 | 66.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | Wear | WEAR CHARE CSO | 19 | 17 | 98.4 |
| Northumbrian Water | Gaunless | VINOVIUM CSO A27 | 13 | 9 | 79.8 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Gaunless | WADES FARM CSO WV 010 | 12 | 8 | 97.6 |
| Northumbrian Water | Coal Burn | DENE HALL DRIVE CSO | 5 | 7 | 99.4 |
| Northumbrian Water | Gaunless | VINOVIUM SSOs A17, A18, A19 & A21 | 15 | 3 | 90.2 |
| Northumbrian Water | Gaunless | COPELAND ESTATE OFF SITE SEWER | 5 | 3 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Gaunless | TOAD POOL CSO TE351 | 2 | 2 | 84.4 |
| Northumbrian Water | Gaunless | GIB CHARE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT | 6 | 2 | 97.4 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Gaunless | WOODHOUSE LANE LIBRARY CSO | 4 | 1 | 99.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Gaunless | DELLWOOD PUMPED STORAGE TANK CSO | 4 | 1 | 93.4 |
| Northumbrian Water | Gaunless | VINOVIUM SSO NO A13 | 3 | 1 | 97.4 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Gaunless | CAROLINE STREET CSO | 3 | 0 | 97.5 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Gaunless | VINOVIUM CSO NO A22 | 1 | 0 | 78.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Wear | GOMER TCE SSO | 1 | 0 | 97.1 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Wear | VINOVIUM CSO NO A9 | 1 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Wear | BINCHESTER PLANTATION CSO | 0 | 0 | 96.2 |
| Northumbrian Water | Wear | CHAPEL STREET CSO | 0 | 0 | 95.1 |
| Northumbrian Water | Dene Beck | CLOSE HOUSE STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW | 0 | 0 | 36.1 |
| Northumbrian Water | Culverted River Wear | ETHERLEY LANE (NO.87) CSO | 0 | 0 | 97.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Gaunless | SOUTH CHURCH CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.9 |
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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