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Totals for Chester-le-Street in 2024

17 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

429 sewage dumps

1,807 hours duration

That's 2.51 months. On average 1.2 times a day

Change Over Time

Waterways in Chester-le-Street

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Chester-le-Street 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	Wear	CHESTER LE STREET STW	49	525	51.6
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	PELTON FELL ROAD CSO	45	204	99.5
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	SHIELDS ROAD CSO	48	203	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	LINDOM AVENUE CSO	31	197	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	PARK ROAD CSO	31	162	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	PELTON FELL ROAD 3 CSO CH14	40	129	100
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn 9River Team	OUSTON VILLA FARM CSO	25	107	100
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	PELAW BANK CSO CH57	40	107	95.8
Northumbrian Water	Of Wear Estuary	ASH MEADOWS CSO CHESTER LE STREET	28	45	98.4
Northumbrian Water	South Burn River Wear	HOLMHILL FIELD CSO CH043	17	27	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	ELWIN PLACE CSO	19	24	99.3
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn,	SOUTHFIELDS CSO	13	20	98.9
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	HOPGARTH GARDENS CSO	10	19	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	BEVERLEY GARDENS CSO	13	17	99.5
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	PARK ROAD NORTH CSO	12	13	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	CONE LANE (CHESTER NO 4) CSO	4	1	97
Northumbrian Water	Cong Burn	WALDRIDGE ROAD CSO CH 13	4	0	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Brough'S Gill	BACK LANE COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	CHERRY BANKS CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Lumley Park Burn	FORMER CASTLE DENE SDW SSO	0	0	98.2
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	FRONT STREET CSO CH68	0	0	95.3
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	KINGSMERE PS	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Wear	LUMLEY SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Stella Gill	PELTON CSO	0	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Wear	ROPERY LANE/EARDULPH AVE CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	South Burn	WARKWORTH DRIVE CSO	0	0	99.2
Northumbrian Water	Chester Burn	WHELDON TERRACE CSO	0	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Rowletch Burn	DURHAM ROAD CSO	0	0	99.7

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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Chester-le-Street Polluted by sewage 429 times in 2024 lasting 1,807 hours

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