Top of the Poops | Place | Chester-le-Street | Polluted by Northumbrian Water

It's a Dirty Business

Watch Channel 4's documentary about the state of the water industry, then sign the petition to bring water back to public ownership.

Select Another Place

Place Name

Select the place from the drop-down

✔ means we have live data

Totals for Chester-le-Street in 2025

22 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

1,040 sewage dumps

1,071 hours duration

That's 1.49 months. On average 2.8 times a day

Change Over Time

Constituency for Chester-le-Street

Nearby Constituencies

Waterways in Chester-le-Street

Take Action

Your local MP is Luke Akehurst (Labour) - Find out more about their interests, donors, and voting at They Work For You

Share this page, post a message, and tell others about the huge problem of sewage pollution across the UK

We need your support!

Please consider a one-off or small recurring donation. We need your help to keep this site going.

Donate Now

Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Chester-le-Street 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	Wear	CHESTER LE STREET STW	776	398	99.25
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	PELTON FELL ROAD 3 CSO CH14	45	127	98.8
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	LINDOM AVENUE CSO	16	104	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	PARK ROAD CSO	21	86	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	SHIELDS ROAD CSO	25	73	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	PELAW BANK CSO CH57	33	65	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	PELTON FELL ROAD CSO	22	64	100
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn 9River Team	OUSTON VILLA FARM CSO	6	39	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn,	SOUTHFIELDS CSO	12	26	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	BEVERLEY GARDENS CSO	20	22	100
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	ELWIN PLACE CSO	14	14	99
Northumbrian Water	Wear	LUMLEY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	2	11	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	HOPGARTH GARDENS CSO	7	10	99.2
Northumbrian Water	South Burn River Wear	HOLMHILL FIELD CSO CH043	8	8	97.4
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	PARK ROAD NORTH CSO	13	7	98.6
Northumbrian Water	Lumley Park Burn	FORMER CASTLE DENE SDW SSO	1	5	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Of Wear Estuary	ASH MEADOWS CSO CHESTER LE STREET	5	1	99.3
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	CONE LANE (CHESTER NO 4) CSO	7	1	100
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	WALDRIDGE ROAD CSO CH 13	2	0	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	FRONT STREET CSO CH68	1	0	82.3
Northumbrian Water	Brough'S Gill	BACK LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	2	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Stella Gill	PELTON CSO	2	0	99.3
Northumbrian Water	Wear	CHERRY BANKS CSO	0	0	97.4
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	KINGSMERE PS	0	0	99.4
Northumbrian Water	Wear	ROPERY LANE/EARDULPH AVE CSO	0	0	80.1
Northumbrian Water	South Burn	WARKWORTH DRIVE CSO	0	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	WHELDON TERRACE CSO	0	0	95.5
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	DURHAM ROAD CSO	0	0	96.2

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.

This project is not associated, approved or endorsed by any of the companies whose logos you see here.

Analysing sewage pollution by the Water Industry

Media Queries

Get in touch if you have queries or want to discuss our data.

press [at] top-of-the-poops.org

Please Support Us

We rely on donations to fund our work. Please support us if you can

Yes! Support TOTP!

© 2020-2025 Top-Of-The-Poops CC-BY-SA 4.0,
© Openstreetmap contributors, Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2021-2025,
Contains Water UK National Storm Overflow Hub Data CC-BY-SA 4.0 and analysis © 2025 Top-Of-The-Poops

Some data reproduced under Open Government Licence

Please don't scrape these pages - we can maybe share our data with you