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Donate NowHere are all the reported sewage overflow totals for Washington 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 | River Wear | FERRYBOAT LANE PUMPING STATION | 12 | 142 | 95.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Wear | WASHINGTON STW | 16 | 117 | 99.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Wear | STATION ROAD CSO | 69 | 114 | 88.3 |
| Northumbrian Water | Wear | NORTH HYLTON SEWAGE PUMPING STATION | 16 | 108 | 99.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Wear | GOLDEN LION SPS | 20 | 87 | 99.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Usworth Burn | COACH ROAD EST CSO | 20 | 58 | 99.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | Wear Estuary | POTTERY LANE PS | 9 | 42 | 99.8 |
| Northumbrian Water | Don | MANOR ROAD CSO | 10 | 11 | 98.8 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Wear | PARK ROAD NORTH CSO | 13 | 7 | 98.6 |
| Northumbrian Water | Of Wear Estuary | ASH MEADOWS CSO CHESTER LE STREET | 5 | 1 | 99.3 |
| Northumbrian Water | Oxclose Burn | STONEY LANE CSO | 5 | 0 | 92.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Willows Pond | J F KENNEDY ESTATE CSO | 3 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | Don, | USWORTH HALL CSO | 1 | 0 | 93.8 |
| Northumbrian Water | River Wear | COX GREEN PUMPING STATION | 0 | 0 | 99.9 |
| Northumbrian Water | Wear | CHERRY BANKS CSO | 0 | 0 | 97.4 |
| Northumbrian Water | Rowletch Burn | KINGSMERE PS | 0 | 0 | 99.4 |
| Northumbrian Water | Wear | CSO 200M WEST OF WALTON ROAD | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Northumbrian Water | Oxclose Burn | PRINCESS ANNE PARK CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.8 |
| Northumbrian Water | Don | SHERATON CSO | 0 | 0 | 99.7 |
| Northumbrian Water | Willows Pond | WASHINGTON VILLAGE CEMETRY CSO | 0 | 0 | 96.2 |
| Northumbrian Water | Biddick Burn | WORMHILL TERRACE CSO | 0 | 0 | 93.1 |
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.
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