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Blaydon

Polluted by sewage 627 times in 2025 lasting 1,900 hours

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Totals for Blaydon in 2025

26 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
627 sewage dumps
1,900 hours duration
That's 2.64 months. On average 1.7 times a day

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Blaydon 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 Derwent MARKET LANE CSO 76 368 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Derwent RIVERSIDEWAY CSO 29 195 74.2
Northumbrian Water River Tyne DENTON ROAD CSO NC027 78 185 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne MARKET LANE CSO 51 177 98.5
Northumbrian Water Tyne BLAYDON METALS NO 2 CSO 36 159 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary BLAYDON METALS NO 1 CSO 34 157 97.8
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary DUNSTON FLOUR MILL (WEST) CSO 14 146 91
Northumbrian Water Tyne METROCENTRE GREEN CAR PARK PS (E7) 29 93 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary BLAYDON BANK CSO 55 87 96.2
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SCOTSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION NO 4 33 65 63.1
Northumbrian Water Derwent JUNCTION OF HEXHAM RD & 39 61 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne FACTORY ROAD CSO 8 54 88.4
Northumbrian Water Lemington Gut TYNE VIEW CSO 30 46 87.1
Northumbrian Water River Tyne SOUTH BENWELL ROAD CSO 17 34 99.6
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SCOTSWOOD ROAD/DENTON BURN PS 23 30 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary NEWBURN HAUGH/RIVERSDALE WAY P STN 5 11 92.6
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary ATKINSON ROAD CSO 19 9 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary CROFTDALE ROAD CSO 14 5 99.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne Estuary AMELIA CLOSE CSO - C49/102 11 4 100
Northumbrian Water Derwent OLD DERWENT BRIDGE CSO 4 3 97.7
Northumbrian Water Derwent Mill Race JUNC OF CLAVERING RD & SWALWEL BANK 9 1 99.6
Northumbrian Water River Tyne SCOTSWOOD NO1 SPS 4 0 85.4
Northumbrian Water Clvrt Watercrse River Tyne STELLA ROAD CSO 5 0 89.2
Northumbrian Water Derwent Mill Race CLAVERING RD & RUSKIN RD 2 0 88.3
Northumbrian Water Derwent Estuary SHIBDON ROAD CSO 1 0 98.2
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary SUMMERHILL CSO 1 0 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary BLAYDON BURN WAGONWAY CSO 0 0 100
Northumbrian Water Tyne COCHRANE STREET CSO 0 0 99.4
Northumbrian Water Blaydon Burn CSO 28 BEWESHILL CRESCENT 0 0 86.8
Northumbrian Water River Tyne Saline Estuary GAS LANE CSO 0 0 85.9
Northumbrian Water Derwent PARKGATE FARM CSO 0 0 99.6
Northumbrian Water River Tyne MICHEL BEARINGS NORTH CSO 0 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water Tyne Saline Estuary SCOTSWOOD BRIDGE CSO 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water River Tyne SCOTSWOOD ROAD PUMPING STATION NO 2 0 0 89.5

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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