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Stakeford

Polluted by sewage 197 times in 2025 lasting 644 hours

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

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Totals for Stakeford in 2025

11 Sites polluted by Northumbrian Water
197 sewage dumps
644 hours duration
That's 3.83 weeks. 3.8 times a week, on average

Change Over Time

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Pollution Summary 2025

Here are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Stakeford 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 11 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 Sleek Burn WEST SLEEKBURN FARM CSO 30 232 95.2
Northumbrian Water Rowlington Burn SEATON NORTH HOTEL CSO (WK013) 43 168 98.3
Northumbrian Water Sleekburn WELWYN FACTORY CSO 29 95 100
Northumbrian Water Wansbeck CLEASEWELL HILL SPS 26 52 99.7
Northumbrian Water Sleek Burn WILLOW BRIDGE CSO 16 25 99.1
Northumbrian Water Wansbeck Estuary EAST FORD ROAD PS EMERGENCY OVERFLO 11 22 99.9
Northumbrian Water River Wansbeck GLAXO WEST CSO 23 21 97.8
Northumbrian Water River Wansbeck NORTH SEATON LEVEL CROSSING CSO 3 16 31
Northumbrian Water Wansbeck, GREEN LANE CSO 9(WK 008) 6 6 92.9
Northumbrian Water Wansbeck Estuary ASHINGTON DRIVE CSO HLF MOON RNDBWT 6 1 99.7
Northumbrian Water Blackclose Dene SOUTH GREEN LANE CSO 4 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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