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Fence Houses

Polluted by sewage 152 times in 2025 lasting 741 hours

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Totals for Fence Houses in 2025

12 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
152 sewage dumps
741 hours duration
That's 4.41 weeks. 2.9 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Fence Houses 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 Herrington Burn/Moors Burn SEDGELETCH STW 47 526 95.85
Northumbrian Water Lumley Park Burn FLOATERS MILL PS CSO 18 62 100
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn AVENUE VIVIAN CSO SU013 23 59 99.7
Northumbrian Water Rainton Burn STANHOPE CLOSE CSO SU 26 24 50 99.7
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn SEDGELETCH BRIDGE CSO 17 19 100
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn, Lumley Park BRINKBURN CRESCENT CSO (SU28) 14 13 99.9
Northumbrian Water Lumley Park Burn BOURNMOOR SPS 1 5 100
Northumbrian Water Red Burn REAR ST MICHAELS CSO 3 0 99.5
Northumbrian Water Rainton Burn A690 SLIP ROAD CSO, SU27 1 0 78.7
Northumbrian Water Rainton Burn DAIRY LANE CSO SU024 1 0 99.8
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn OTTERBURN CRESCENT CSO 1 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn OSMAN TERRACE CSO 2 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Red Burn BRINKBURN SSO 0 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Moors Burn BURNSIDE AVENUE CSO 0 0 99.4
Northumbrian Water Lumley Park Burn ROSE CRESCENT CSO 0 0 98.4

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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