Shildon

Polluted by sewage 75 times in 2025 lasting 180 hours

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

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Totals for Shildon in 2025

5 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
75 sewage dumps
180 hours duration
Sewage pollution map of Shildon
Sewage pollution map of Shildon: 180 hours in 2025
That's 7.5 days. 1.4 times a week, on average

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Shildon 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 6 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 Red House Beck, REDWORTH SEWAGE PUMPING STATION 23 72 99.6
Northumbrian Water Dene Beck CUMBERLAND STREET SSO 24 65 95.2
Northumbrian Water River Skerne JUBILEE ROAD CSO 15 27 66.4
Northumbrian Water Woodham Burn CSO AT SHILDON 9 14 99.6
Northumbrian Water Woodham Burn SHILDON CSO WEST ROAD AUCKLAND 4 1 90
Northumbrian Water Dene Beck CLOSE HOUSE STORM SEWAGE OVERFLOW 0 0 36.1

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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