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Totals for South Shields in 2025

28 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water

527 sewage dumps

1,588 hours duration

That's 2.21 months. On average 1.4 times a day

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for South Shields 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	Don Estuary	JARROW ROAD PUMPING STATION	27	192	100
Northumbrian Water	River Don	STATION ROAD CSO G020	32	179	94.8
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuarine Waters	ELDON STREET CSO	50	175	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuarine Waters	TUDOR ROAD CSO	42	148	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuarine Waters	WAPPING STREET CSO	58	147	90.3
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuarine Waters	TEMPLE STREET CSO	42	112	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	CORONATION ST CSO	19	111	99.9
Northumbrian Water	River Don	CSO AT BEDESWAY	39	106	100
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	HARTON LOW STAITHES CSO	24	72	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Don	BURDON ROAD CSO	16	61	100
Northumbrian Water	Tyne	PILOT STREET PUMPING STATION	14	42	99.9
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	FISH QUAY CSO	15	39	100
Northumbrian Water	Don	WEST BOLDON CSO (NO 4)	18	36	96
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	SMITH STREET PUMPING STATION	5	32	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Don	NEW ROAD CSO	10	32	100
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	NEW QUAY CSO NC058	14	25	99.7
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	NORTH GROYNE PUMPING STATION	12	15	100
Northumbrian Water	Don	WEST OF HEDWORTH LANE CSO	33	13	93.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	HOWDON ROAD CSO (NTY 040)	7	11	99.5
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	BEDFORD STREET CSO NTY057	12	8	99.6
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Saline Estuary	WEST HOLBORN SOUTH CSO	9	7	98.5
Northumbrian Water	River Don	BROOKE AVENUE (NO20) STY049 CSO	7	6	97.9
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Estuary	BURDON MAIN ROW CSO	13	5	99.4
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	HARTON LOW STAITHES (MILL DAM) CSO	1	1	99.7
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne	UNION QUAY CSO	2	1	89.6
Northumbrian Water	River Don	REAR 3 ERNEST STREET CSO	3	0	94.6
Northumbrian Water	Don	JUNCTION LANGHOLME AVENUE &	2	0	99.3
Northumbrian Water	River Don	HEATON GARDENS PUMPING STATION	1	0	78.2
Northumbrian Water	River Don	BOLDON COLLIERY FENWICK STREET CSO	0	0	99.4
Northumbrian Water	Don	WEST BOLDON CSO NO 3	0	0	99.6
Northumbrian Water	Tyne Saline Estuary	MITRE PLACE CSO	0	0	97.3
Northumbrian Water	North Sea	REDWELL SEAGE PUMPING STATION	0	0	94.9
Northumbrian Water	River Tyne Estuary	SWADDLES HOLE CSO	0	0	84.1

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

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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