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Redcar

Polluted by sewage 213 times in 2025 lasting 840 hours

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Totals for Redcar in 2025

12 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
213 sewage dumps
840 hours duration
That's 1.17 months. 4.1 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Redcar 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 Dabholm Gut BRAN SANDS TREATMENT WORKS 70 321 99.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea LAKES CSO 46 263 77.2
Northumbrian Water North Sea GRANVILLE TCE SSO 24 95 100
Northumbrian Water Fleet Beck MCCLEAN AVENUE CSO (REF NO L15) 15 54 97.5
Northumbrian Water Fleet Beck HARWAL ROAD CSO (REF. L16) 16 31 97.4
Northumbrian Water North Sea NEW MARSKE METHODIST CHURCH 19 24 99.7
Northumbrian Water North Sea NEW COATHAM CSO REF L73 9 21 99.7
Northumbrian Water Fleet WEST COATHAM LANE CSO 3 10 99.6
Northumbrian Water Fleet LOCKE PARK CSO 2 6 99.4
Northumbrian Water North Sea STATION ROAD CSO 3 4 92.7
Northumbrian Water Fleet Beck MCCLEAN AVENUE CSO (REF NO L15) 4 3 99.1
Northumbrian Water Unnamed Watercouse - Tees Estu GRINKLE ROAD CSO 2 3 100
Northumbrian Water North Sea OAK ROAD CSO 0 0 83.8
Northumbrian Water North Sea WARRENBY SEA OUTFALL 0 0 100

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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