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Morpeth

Polluted by sewage 137 times in 2025 lasting 399 hours

Monitoring fell below 50% in some locations so could be more

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Totals for Morpeth in 2025

9 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
137 sewage dumps
399 hours duration
That's 2.38 weeks. 2.6 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Morpeth 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 1 of the total 12 CSO Combined Sewage Overflow - a device that, when operating, pours combined rainwater & sewage into a waterway locations had reporting enabled for less than half the year.

Company Waterway Site Sewage Dumps Duration (Hours) Reporting %
Northumbrian Water River Wansbeck MORPETH SEWAGE TREATMENT WORKS 33 201 68.85
Northumbrian Water River Wansbeck STOBS FORD SPS 48 163 100
Northumbrian Water Cotting Burn POINT A DAMSIDE CSO CM022 22 21 99.3
Northumbrian Water Church Burn SUNN INN CSO 17 7 97.6
Northumbrian Water Cotting Burn POINT M ST JAMES CHURCH CSO 6 1 95.6
Northumbrian Water Church Burn STOREY PARK CSO 4 1 99.5
Northumbrian Water Cotting Burn DAMSIDE AND STAITHES LANE CSO 2 0 89.3
Northumbrian Water River Wansbeck BENNETTS WALK CSO 4 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water Church Burn MAFEKING COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 1 0 99.9
Northumbrian Water Church Burn ELDER COTTAGES CSO 0 0 46.7
Northumbrian Water Wansbeck MORPETH CSO D 0 0 93.8
Northumbrian Water Church Burn THE KYLINS COMBINED SEWER OVERFLOW 0 0 99.2

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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