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Consett

Polluted by sewage 406 times in 2025 lasting 1,042 hours

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Totals for Consett in 2025

26 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

406 sewage dumps

1,042 hours duration

That's 1.45 months. On average 1.1 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Consett 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	Stockerley Burn,	CROOKHALL STW	95	404	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Smallhope Burn	KNITSLEY SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	41	279	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Smallhope Burn	BUTSFIELD LANE CSO DER092	46	69	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Backstone Beck River Derwe	CUTLERS HALL ROAD (NO. 29) STORM	13	60	100
Northumbrian Water	Pont Burn	PONT LANE A CSO	12	42	95.4
Northumbrian Water	Derwent	GREEN BRIDGE CSO (DER 137)	13	39	100
Northumbrian Water	Smallhope Burn	EAST OF KNITSLEY GRANGE FARM CSO	18	31	99.4
Northumbrian Water	Dene Burn	CONSETT ACADEMY SOUTH CSO DER090	26	28	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Pont Burn	PONT B CSO	13	17	100
Northumbrian Water	Backstone Burn	CHURCH ROAD CSO	19	16	100
Northumbrian Water	Backgill Burn	FELLSIDE CSO (DER 174)	13	15	100
Northumbrian Water	Dene Burn	BERRY EDGE ROAD CSO DER096	21	10	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Derwent	SHOTLEY BRIDGE CSO DER0004	12	9	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Dene Burn	A692 CSO	17	7	100
Northumbrian Water	Dene Burn	CASTLESIDE	8	1	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Dene Burn	MOORSIDE CSO DER002	4	1	73.1
Northumbrian Water	Tinkerhill Gill,	DURHAM ROAD REF NO 36	11	1	98.8
Northumbrian Water	Stockerley Burn,	SIXTH ST SSO	4	0	88
Northumbrian Water	Wharnley Burn	OPP OLD CASTLESIDE STW CSO	4	0	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Backstone Burn	QUEENSWAY CSO	5	0	94.9
Northumbrian Water	Backstone Burn	REAR 39 CUTLERS HALL ROAD	3	0	99.3
Northumbrian Water	Backstone Burn	CONSETT OAP HALL CSO	3	0	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Pont Burn	ST IVES ROAD CSO	2	0	97.2
Northumbrian Water	Stockerley Burn,	SOUTH STREET STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW	1	0	93.6
Northumbrian Water	Stockerley Burn	5 SOUTH STREET CSO, CROOKHALL	1	0	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Snows Green Burn	85 SNOWS GREEN ROAD	1	0	99.4
Northumbrian Water	Howden Burn	CONSETT IRON WORKS	0	0	98.2
Northumbrian Water	Pont Burn	PONT BUNGALOWS	0	0	93.9
Northumbrian Water	Tinkerhill Gill	SHOTLEY BRIDGE HOSPITAL CSO	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Derwent	SNOWS GREEN ROAD CSO (DER010)	0	0	98.2
Northumbrian Water	Backstone Burn	ST MARYS PRIMARY SCHOOL CSO	0	0	98.9

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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