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Middlesbrough

Polluted by sewage 1,576 times in 2025 lasting 2,960 hours

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Totals for Middlesbrough in 2025

28 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

1,576 sewage dumps

2,960 hours duration

That's 4.11 months. On average 4.3 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Middlesbrough 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	Ormsby Beck	CARGO FLEET STW (OUTLET B)	168	1,059	99.95
Northumbrian Water	River Tees	PORTRACK SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS	110	651	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tees-Saline Estuary	FURNESS PS OUTFALL	22	219	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tees	PORT CLARENCE EAST PUMPING STATION	30	216	94.2
Northumbrian Water	Marton West Beck	NUNTHORPE NO 1 SPS	20	214	99.8
Northumbrian Water	Billingham Beck	NEWPORT SEWAGE PUMPING STATION	47	89	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Ormesby Beck	LEVEN ROAD CSO	21	81	92.6
Northumbrian Water	Old River Tees	PRIORY ROAD CSO	29	79	98.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tees	ACKLAM STREET OUTFALL	44	60	100
Northumbrian Water	Old River Tees	OLD RIVER TEES PUMPING STATION	25	58	100
Northumbrian Water	River Tees	PORT CLARENCE WEST PS OUTFALL	7	38	100
Northumbrian Water	Normanby Beck	DORMER WAY PS	6	34	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Ormesby Beck	GROVE ROAD CSO M009	14	27	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Old River Tees	STAINSBY ROAD CSO	7	26	74.3
Northumbrian Water	River Tees	VULCAN STREET OUTFALL	8	23	90.4
Northumbrian Water	River Tees Estuary	NEWPORT ROAD CSO	960	21	97.7
Northumbrian Water	River Tees	SNOWDON ROAD PS	23	15	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Spencer Beck	SKIPPERS LANE INDUSTRIAL ESTATE PS	5	12	96.1
Northumbrian Water	Ormesby Beck	VERONICA STREET CSO	4	12	97.9
Northumbrian Water	Ormesby Beck	OAKFIELD ROAD CSO	5	3	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Middle Beck	THORNTON STREET PS	5	2	100
Northumbrian Water	Middle Beck	JAMES STREET SSO	5	2	91
Northumbrian Water	Marton West Beck	DEEPDALE AVENUE NO2 CSO (M007)	4	2	98.9
Northumbrian Water	Stainsby Beck	TEDDER AVENUE SSO	2	2	94.3
Northumbrian Water	Marton West Beck	RAVENSCROFT AVE CSO	2	1	99.3
Northumbrian Water	Ormesby Beck	CSO 1 MARTON AVENUE	1	0	97.8
Northumbrian Water	Marton West Beck	CSO IN GUNNERGATE LANE	1	0	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Marton West Beck	TOLLESBY MANOR SPS & CSO	1	0	95.1
Northumbrian Water	Marton West Beck	CSO IN TOLLESBY LANE	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Stainton Beck	KELL GATE SSO	0	0	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Ormesby Beck	PRISSICK SSO	0	0	96.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tees	A CSO AT SMITHS DOCK ROAD	0	0	100
Northumbrian Water	Tidal River Tees	CSO & PUMPING STN DOCK ROAD	0	0	90

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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