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Hexham

Polluted by sewage 238 times in 2025 lasting 544 hours

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Totals for Hexham in 2025

13 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
238 sewage dumps
544 hours duration
That's 3.24 weeks. 4.6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Hexham 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 Tyne HEXHAM STW 43 317 100
Northumbrian Water River Tyne ACOMB CSO 67 77 99.7
Northumbrian Water Birkley Burn ACOMB PUMPING STATION 22 42 99.8
Northumbrian Water River Tyne WOODLANDS PUMPING STATION 17 42 91.4
Northumbrian Water Tyne PETH HEAD PS 22 28 99.9
Northumbrian Water Cockshaw Burn THE LARCHES P.S. 10 13 100
Northumbrian Water Culverted Cockshaw Burn HEXHAM CSO LEAZES TERRACE 25 9 98.7
Northumbrian Water Tyne HEXHAM (ANICK GRANGE) P.S. 2 5 99.9
Northumbrian Water Cockshaw Burn TYNE GREEN CSO TD030 8 2 99.6
Northumbrian Water Unnamed River Tyne ANICK CSO TD006 9 2 100
Northumbrian Water Cockshaw Burn TANNERS ROAD CSO TD028 8 1 95.8
Northumbrian Water Cockshaw Burn Culverted BEECH HILL CSO 4 0 95.3
Northumbrian Water Tyne OUTLET ROAD NO 2 CSO 1 0 99.7
Northumbrian Water Cockshaw Burn EILANS GATE CSO 0 0 50.4
Northumbrian Water River Tyne OUTLET LANE CSO NO.2 0 0 99.6
Northumbrian Water Halgut Burn PRIESTLAND CLOSE CSO 0 0 92.5

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

Annual figures up to and including 2025 come from official water company returns. The 2026 figure is our own estimate, derived continuously from the companies' live data feeds.

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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