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Totals for Boldon Colliery in 2025

14 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

156 sewage dumps

359 hours duration

That's 2.14 weeks. 3 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Boldon Colliery 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 Don	STATION ROAD CSO G020	32	179	94.8
Northumbrian Water	River Don	ROMAN ROAD CSO	17	59	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Don	WEST BOLDON CSO (NO 4)	18	36	96
Northumbrian Water	Don	NEW ROAD CSO	10	32	100
Northumbrian Water	River Don	EDEN WALK CSO	26	29	89.7
Northumbrian Water	Don	WEST OF HEDWORTH LANE CSO	33	13	93.6
Northumbrian Water	River Don	BROOKE AVENUE (NO20) STY049 CSO	7	6	97.9
Northumbrian Water	River Don	REAR 3 ERNEST STREET CSO	3	0	94.6
Northumbrian Water	River Don	BOLDON COLLIERY SOUTH (N0'7) CSO	2	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Don	JUNCTION LANGHOLME AVENUE &	2	0	99.3
Northumbrian Water	River Don	JARROW HEDWORTH CSO 23	2	0	99.5
Northumbrian Water	River Don	JARROW HEDWORTH CSO 20	2	0	89.7
Northumbrian Water	River Don	HEATON GARDENS PUMPING STATION	1	0	78.2
Northumbrian Water	Don	NORTH ROAD NO1	1	0	79.9
Northumbrian Water	River Don	BOLDON COLLIERY FENWICK STREET CSO	0	0	99.4
Northumbrian Water	River Don	REAR OF 92 & 94 CHARLES STREET CSO	0	0	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Don	WEST BOLDON CSO NO 3	0	0	99.6

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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