Top of the Poops | Place | Houghton-le-Spring| Polluted by Northumbrian Water

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Totals for Houghton-le-Spring in 2024

21 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

462 sewage dumps

1,693 hours duration

That's 2.35 months. On average 1.3 times a day

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Waterways in Houghton-le-Spring

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Pollution Summary 2024

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Houghton-le-Spring 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	Herrington Burn/Moors Burn	SEDGELETCH STW	66	739	96.6
Northumbrian Water	Rough Dene Burn	HETTON ROAD CSO SU33	51	181	93.6
Northumbrian Water	Rainton Burn	GILLAS LANE WEST CSO (SU30)	53	158	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Rainton Burn	WARDEN GROVE SSO	53	110	95.5
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn	AVENUE VIVIAN CSO SU013	31	88	94.4
Northumbrian Water	Houghton Burn	SEAHAM ROAD CSO SU35	34	83	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Rainton Burn	STANHOPE CLOSE CSO SU 26	25	75	93.5
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn	66 ROSS LEA CSO	32	72	100
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn	CHURCH STREET NO26 CSO	23	35	99.2
Northumbrian Water	Hetton Burn	HETTON PARK BOWLING GREEN CSO	24	34	85.6
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn	SEDGELETCH BRIDGE CSO	19	34	96
Northumbrian Water	Hetton Burn	HETTON-LE-HOLE SSO NO. 3	10	20	100
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn	OSMAN TERRACE CSO	5	16	100
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn	BOURN LEA CSO CH087	8	16	92.2
Northumbrian Water	Rainton Burn	DAIRY LANE CSO SU024	6	9	98
Northumbrian Water	Red Burn	REAR ST MICHAELS CSO	6	7	100
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn	OTTERBURN CRESCENT CSO	4	3	98.7
Northumbrian Water	Rainton Burn	A690 SLIP ROAD CSO, SU27	6	2	100
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn, Lumley Park	BRINKBURN CRESCENT CSO (SU28)	4	2	97.5
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn	BURNSIDE AVENUE CSO	1	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Rough Dene Burn	GILLAS LANE EAST CSO (SU32)	1	0	95.8
Northumbrian Water	Red Burn	BRINKBURN SSO	0	0	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn	GOLF COURSE ROAD CSO	0	0	99.9

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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Houghton-le-Spring Polluted by sewage 462 times in 2024 lasting 1,693 hours

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