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Darlington

Polluted by sewage 212 times in 2025 lasting 645 hours

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Totals for Darlington in 2025

25 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
212 sewage dumps
645 hours duration
That's 3.84 weeks. 4.1 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Darlington 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 Tees STRESSHOLME STW 30 187 100
Northumbrian Water River Skerne SOUTH PARK CSO DL035 30 150 87.8
Northumbrian Water River Skerne WHESSOE SPS 12 66 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Skerne VICTORIA EMBANKMENT - POLAM LANE 11 45 98.8
Northumbrian Water Skerne BEAUMONT HILL SSO 21 39 97.3
Northumbrian Water River Skerne NEASHAM ROAD CSO (Y5) 29 30 92
Northumbrian Water River Skerne DARLINGTON CROWN STREET NO 34 CSO 11 29 100
Northumbrian Water Cree Beck CREE BECK CSO 6 28 90.7
Northumbrian Water Skerne, HARROWGATE HILL SEWAGE PS 9 22 100
Northumbrian Water Tees EDINBURGH DRIVE CSO 7 18 95
Northumbrian Water Cocker Beck DENE GROVE CSO 4 7 99.6
Northumbrian Water West Beck SPRING COURT CSO DL006 4 6 88.4
Northumbrian Water River Skerne YARM ROAD CSO (Y2) 6 2 87.6
Northumbrian Water Tees BLACKWELL SCAR PS 2 1 87.6
Northumbrian Water Skerne GLADSTONE STREET (G1) 5 1 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Skerne YARM ROAD CSO (Y3) 3 1 99.5
Northumbrian Water River Skerne NEASHAM ROAD (Y4) CSO 3 1 99.7
Northumbrian Water Skerne SOUTH PARK EAST CSO 3 1 100
Northumbrian Water River Skerne VICTORIA ROAD CSO 2 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Skerne CSO YARM ROAD DL18 4 0 93.1
Northumbrian Water River Tees MAYFAIR ROAD CSO 3 0 93
Northumbrian Water River Skerne YARM ROAD CSO (Y6) 1 0 82.4
Northumbrian Water River Skerne EASSON ROAD/DODDS STREET CSO 3 0 98.8
Northumbrian Water River Skerne REAR FORSTER ST/EASSON ROAD CSO 2 0 89
Northumbrian Water Cree Beck Tees Catchment GENEVA ROAD CSO 1 0 75.2
Northumbrian Water River Skerne ASKRIGG STREET COMBINED SEWER OVERF 0 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water Cocker Beck CSO AT WOODLAND ROAD 0 0 99.5
Northumbrian Water River Skerne FORSTER STREET/EASSON ROAD CSO 0 0 96.1
Northumbrian Water River Tees STAPLETON SPS 0 0 99.8

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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