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Totals for Shiney Row and Penshaw in 2025

12 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

267 sewage dumps

1,098 hours duration

That's 1.52 months. 5.1 times a week, on average

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Waterways in Shiney Row and Penshaw

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Shiney Row and Penshaw 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	Herrington Burn/Moors Burn	SEDGELETCH STW	47	526	95.85
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn	SHINEY ROW FOOTBRIDGE CSO	46	236	100
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	STATION ROAD CSO	69	114	88.3
Northumbrian Water	Lumley Park Burn	FLOATERS MILL PS CSO	18	62	100
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn	AVENUE VIVIAN CSO SU013	23	59	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn	66 ROSS LEA CSO	17	34	99.6
Northumbrian Water	River Wear	HOUGHTON LE SPRING CSO	2	20	100
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn	SEDGELETCH BRIDGE CSO	17	19	100
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn	WESTBOURNE DRIVE CSO	17	18	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn	BOURN LEA CSO CH087	5	3	99.3
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn Via A Culvert	WEST PARK ESTATE CSO	4	2	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Moors Burn	OSMAN TERRACE CSO	2	0	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Herrington Burn	GOLF COURSE ROAD CSO	0	0	96
Northumbrian Water	Lumley Park Burn	ROSE CRESCENT CSO	0	0	98.4

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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